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 Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2011 10:35 pm
The sweat was streaking through the thickly layered dirt on his back. Her mouth was parched, every muscle aching as she pulled and pulled toward the edge. She would make it there, they would get out! It would be over!
Gripping hard onto the mare, she pulled and pulled. Her body felt cooler as she kept dragging. The air was easier to breathe, and the flames seemed to be farther and farther away. Stopping, she took a breathe to discover she was just ahead of the flames. Not out of danger yet.
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Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2011 1:40 pm
The mare rose in and out of consciousness seemingly randomly. For a few moments her eyelids would flicker open, only to find her vision clouded over. Nothing was discernible. Sounds appeared as a dull roar in the background, making everything seem almost mute. It was like someone had taken her and pulled her out of her surroundings, so she no longer could sense anything or know where or what she was.
But then the next second her head would loll again and the whites of her eyes would show as her eyeballs rolled in their sockets. A world of darkness would envelop her, one where she was safe from the fire. Where she could no longer feel the raging heat, only a bone-leaching cold. As though someone was slowly sucking the essence out of her body. In this state, she could neither tell if she was dead or alive. She simply... ceased to exist for those seconds. It was like time had no hold on her. She was gone, her mind shut down.
Yet it would always splutter back, bringing her back into her distorted reality for a few seconds more.
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Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2011 2:29 am
Acacia could here the shrill screams in her mind that had always haunted her. Each time she thought she had escaped from the past, she was thrust sharply back into it. For a moment, she fought hard against it. And something rose against her, she had struggled all this time, she would not let anything end here. "WAKE UP!" Her voice was choked with the ash from the fire, "WAKE UP!" She pulled at the unconscious mare again, before stumbling to her hooves again.
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Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2011 1:15 pm
Everything was dull in this reality that was not reality. She could discern nothing. Her eyes flickered open for a brief second, but they were unseeing. Ash weighed heavily down upon her eyelids, wishing them shut again. Who was she? What was she? She knew no longer. Her mind had retreated, leaving her empty. She was nothing. Not an emotion. Not a word. She had not an inkling of her being. It was as though she had ceased to exist, yet she was trapped in some weird limbo.
But there was a dull drumming. A heavy, slow drumming. At first it was faint, but with each beat it grew louder. She strove towards it. And slowly, slowly it came closer. Her identity overwhelmed her as she blinked again, colors forming into concrete images. The drumming grew sharper until it was a scream, a plea. Someone was with her. With a disorientated gasp, which terminated in a hacking cough, she drew air into her smoke-charred lungs. The breath was painful, but the pain was nothing compared to the onslaught of agony triggered by the coughs. They ravaged her body, scouring her windpipe as though her body wished to expel its very lungs. Bile rose in her throat as she began to retch violently.
But the confusion remained, though it was hidden behind the shield of pain. She blinked once more. Twice. Thrice. But she did not rise. An edge of panic on the fringe of her brain kept her from formulating any such thoughts.
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Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2011 1:16 am
Acacia felt elation as she saw the girl move. "COME ON!" Her voice was choking, but at least a little better than in the smoke. "Come on! I'm here, you're okay. We have to go." Her voice was almost a plead.
The mare's chest was rising and falling quickly, and she was wretching. Somewhere in there, the mare was fighting...fighting what? Acacia should know that better than anyone, fear...repulsion, and the will to go on. She knew that this girl probably wanted to go back to sleep, to peaceful oblivion...it was easier than this struggle of life, this flight from fire. But then it was just over.
"GET UP! NOW! YOU WANT TO LIVE!" She pulled at the mare again, dragging her another foot before collapsing.
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Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2011 6:18 am
Live... Live.. She... wanted to live? The notion struck her as odd, the meaning of the words not taking seed within her mind. Everything was a swirling vortex. Information hit her mind in bits and pieces. The acrid stench of smoke weaving through the air. A thick coating of ash resting heavily upon her shoulders, staining her fur gray. The sound of crackling branches. Something pulling her, scraping her body against the rocky ground. Pain... the ever present pain. A flash of orange.. orange? Orange.
Fire!
With a gasp, the mare's hooves scrabbled beneath her, struggling to find purchase upon the ground. Her legs were leaden, her movements hindering her rather than helping her. It took her a few moments to co-ordinate her muscles, to allow herself to first bring herself up to kneel, and finally to rise on shaky legs to stand.
Then she saw the shape beside her. A mare. It took a few more moments of puzzling before she realized who the stranger was. Her savior! "F-fire." She hacked out, nudging the cerynei. "M... move..."
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Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2012 8:30 pm
Had this been the panic that her savior had felt when he had saved her so long ago? Had her eyes opening been as much of a relief as this mare's eyes opening meant to her? "Yes, we have to move." Acacia let out a light cough herself.
"You first, we got to move or we won't be safe for long." She nudged back at the mare enforcing her words. "Quick, deep breaths."
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Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2012 9:05 am
Quick deep breaths. The idea rooted itself into her mind, becoming one of the core principals of her being. What did she know at that exact moment? Move. Breathe. Move. Breathe. In that span of time, nothing else held the significance that those two thoughts had.
Neither, however, were particularly easy. Move, her mind blindly repeated at her, barely able to comprehend the meaning of the word. Move. Bend your legs. Use your muscles. A tiny voice spoke to her, barely a whisper of a suggestion. She looked blankly at the smeared gray of her legs before forcing her muscle to contract. It did so sluggishly, lashes of pain twining their way up her shoulder. With a wince that triggered another cough, she forced the leg forwards.
Breathe. Once it had been second nature, but now her chest had to labour to expand and contract the smoke-stained sacs of air that sustained her body with oxygen. The occasional racking cough still shook her frame, halting her movement, sending bile and black, smoky tar up into her mouth.
But still she pressed on. Move. Breathe. Move. Breathe. It was like a chant. A chant of survival.
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Posted: Tue May 01, 2012 10:32 pm
The tendrils of smoke were creeping back up on them, threatening to overtake them again. She watched as the other mare struggled on, her body sluggish as she coughed with the smoke and bile that was singeing her lungs. Her mind keep telling her to keep going, to keep pressing. Above them, the trees had become a canopy of fire.
She pressed harder, tried to help the other mare as much as she could. She tried to push her forward. Acacia tried to use words for encouragement, but each time her mouth opened she coughed and felt that same charred taste in her mouth.
Then suddenly the thick air seemed to be thinning, and up ahead there seem to be the bright shimmer of something that moved. Was it water? Were they almost safe?
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Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2012 6:06 am
They didn't exactly make quick progress, with the slow lurching of the half-delirious mare holding them back, but it was just enough to keep ahead of the blaze, just enough to make small amounts of progress, just enough to stay alive. Sakura's flanks heaved with strain, ash turning into a moist grey pulp as it mixed with the sweat dripping from her body. She had to keep going. Move, breathe, move, breathe.
Her eyes were blurry, vision distorted. She blinked but it didn't do much. The trees around her were vague smudges of green, the roaring orange was behind them. Wait.. green? If the leaves were green, then they were ahead of the inferno! A small surge of strength filled her muscles. The air was slightly easier to breathe, without the heavy smoke that had tainted it before. Her pace increased slightly as she continued to stumble forwards.
And up ahead... was that... blue?!? Had they reached the lake? Were they finally safe?
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Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2012 6:45 pm
Acacia could feel herself surging foward, half dragging the mare with her. She could catch the scent of it in her nose. It wasn't just fresh air, but water! Her pulse was quickening, her legs that felt like lead were pumping harder to get her there.
She breathed in the sweet air that was untainted of smoke. She could feel it coming still behind her, but they had to keep on. If they just made it to the water they'd be safe...Safe. The flames would not claim them if only they could make it a little further.
But they were so tired, struggling...but the rejuvenating air, the urge to live made her pull forward. "Come on! We're almost there!" She choked out.
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Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2013 5:31 am
Sakura limped along in a mad frenzy. Though the air was getting cleaner, smoke still swirled around her lungs, her tongue grey with ash. She felt dizzy and weak, stumbling almost blindly after the mare. All of her body shook violently, her eyes threatening to roll back into her skull at any moment. The vague thought that she had to keep moving, and that there was fresh water up ahead, were the only things keeping her battered body moving.
She just about heard the choking rasp of the mare's words, and tried to wheeze back an answer. Another cough wormed its way up through her throat instead. It threw her pace off, jolting her legs in awkward directions as she struggled to keep moving. Somehow she managed to stay upright. Water. Breathe. Walk.
They could do it, they were almost there...
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Posted: Fri Aug 09, 2013 12:08 am
The oppressive heat seemed to fade, and she could take great gulping breaths of air. She couldn't get enough of it. She pulled the girl harder forward. Ahead seemed to loom a lake full of water, and she was struggling with the mare trying to pull her there.
"Come on, we're almost there," it came out in sputtering coughs. Finally, she was away from the fire. Were they far enough?
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Posted: Wed Feb 19, 2014 8:28 am
With eyes barely open, Sakura continued to lurch forwards in her slow, reeling pace. It was as though she no longer existed. Her mind was trapped in an endless, looping chant, her legs moving of their own accord, completely isolated from her brain.
And then the ground slid away beneath her. It rose up to meet her, but instead of hitting the warm earth, she found herself crashing into cold shock. Water enveloped her lower half as she slid, having tripped on a patch of mud, into the shallows. W-water?
A startled gasp escaped from her, turning into a deep cough. They'd made it! They were safe! "Ahaha. Alive. We're.." Her breath caught, rasping deep within her throat. "Alive." She let her head drop down, scooping up some of the cool liquid into her mouth. She could feel it washing away the ash and grit, though nothing could clear the taste of smoke.
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