[She's forgotten where she is. Moreover, she's forgotten what it means.
There's a congealing of the air around her. It pricks her gooseflesh to rise, sucks up her rage, drains the blood from every inch of her body. Her throat, her lungs, her quailing gut all pinch closed. Turn to stone.
Somehow, he's summoned a spectral hand from nothing to float on the air above her. It's all bones, each phalange as long as a femur. It's big enough to squeeze the pulp from her body, but only plucks her off her feet.
She can't speak.
She can't think.
It's not until she hits the ground amid leaves and lashing branches that she shrieks. Terror takes hold of her: he says he'd kill her, and boy does she believe it. Clumsy but quick, she's out of those bushes and dashing away at once, wheezing deep and whisking past several frightened onlookers.
Stupid, stupid, stupid. By now she should know better to pick fights with strangers. In a place were anything was possible, a girl who could do nothing should watch her mouth.]
pats your cheekies
There's a congealing of the air around her. It pricks her gooseflesh to rise, sucks up her rage, drains the blood from every inch of her body. Her throat, her lungs, her quailing gut all pinch closed. Turn to stone.
Somehow, he's summoned a spectral hand from nothing to float on the air above her. It's all bones, each phalange as long as a femur. It's big enough to squeeze the pulp from her body, but only plucks her off her feet.
She can't speak.
She can't think.
It's not until she hits the ground amid leaves and lashing branches that she shrieks. Terror takes hold of her: he says he'd kill her, and boy does she believe it. Clumsy but quick, she's out of those bushes and dashing away at once, wheezing deep and whisking past several frightened onlookers.
Stupid, stupid, stupid. By now she should know better to pick fights with strangers. In a place were anything was possible, a girl who could do nothing should watch her mouth.]