It started with the rain; it always starts with the rain. A cold icy rain that drips down your finger tips and leaves them numb and cold as snow.
Then it’s the thunder, the thunder is so loud it completely shatters all resolve you have to remain standing. And then the lightening, it’s the lightening that stops your heart and your soul tries to rip its self out of your cage of a body. It’s the moment that leaves you breathless and unwilling to finish what you’ve started./>
I stand alone trembling as the storm draws closer. I carefully shed my warm coat and leave it by the close standing tree. The cold rain pelts my bare shoulders and partially exposed back. The icy droplets trickle down my hair and leave it clinging almost lifelessly to my back. The storm surrounds me like a whirlwind and pulls me to the center of its fury. The lightening strikes around me making its presence well known, and only missing me by a few feet. It seems to hiss and cast more rain at me as if in anticipation of what I am about to offer it. I take a deep breath and gather my thoughts together. I draw the memory to the front of my mind and pull all the small pieces with it so as not to miss any of it. I linger over it only a few moments before clenching my teeth and preparing for what comes next./>
Before I allow myself to reconsider and close my eyes and wait for the strike. The lightening is fiery hot when it hits me; it feels like every nerve in my body is being torn from me. The shock reverberates through my body and throws me through a million memories all at once, from good to bad to the most horrific you could ever imagine.
It takes me on a tour of my own awful memories before reaching the one I have chosen. It lingers on this one making me feel the pain for just a moment longer and then painfully tears it from my mind, all this within a matter of seconds.
The pull is so strong that upon the release I am thrown backwards away from the raging storm above me, before breaking away I see only for a moment; his face.
I fall to the sandy ground beneath me and lay motionless as the storm recounts its path and takes its self back across the barren lands, leaving me there alone.
The air in my lungs burns like fire as I try to breathe normally; I feel my heart stabilize as the pain from my body slowly fades./>
I shiver as the rain continues to pelt my skin; I cannot find the strength to pull myself up off the ground. All the strength I had has been drained from me and all that is left now is to give in to the power of exhaustion.
My eyes shutter closed and only for a moment do I hope that I could die here, beneath the lifeless sky of some unknown world I thought I once knew.
But my thoughts are lost to the sad sound of rain and wind, my body gives in to the pull of sleep and I lose all memory of what has just taken place. Just…as I had planned it, I am safe until he finds me.
