07-23-2018, 05:51 PM
[align=center][div style="width: 51%; text-align: justify; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: -1px; font-family: georgia;"]It takes several moments for Imperia to even notice that someone else is present, like there is a delay between her optic sensors and her neurons. Her skull feels as if it is filled with water. Noises and muted and her vision is blurred. Slowly, she turns to face to person, and seems to be taken aback when she sees two blurry figures staring right back at her—one considerably larger, and the other no taller than her chest. Several more heartbeats pass before she can actually see who they are. "Oh, hello," she greets as if the ordeal had not even happened, blinking rapidly with a mild look of confusion. "Why're you here?" Luminous silver eyes sweep over the familiar faces: Moon and Suiteheart. She stares for a long while, but not at them. At their auras. A dark smokey cloud the color of coal shrouds Moon's figure. A similar hue surrounds Suite, though the older female's is more grey that naught. Fear. Anxiety. Concern. Imperia is fairly certain that the lack of oxygen is making her see things, or maybe it was when she smacked her head on the rocks; but a part of her seems to feel like this is the blessing her goddess was speaking of.
A vague notion that someone is yelling at her drags her attention back to the people standing before her, and she realizes that she missed almost the entirety of Moon's anxiety-driven rant. Upon Suite's instruction to sit, Imperia sways slightly as if she were still out on the water before unceremoniously falling backwards onto her rump. Rivulets of water spill from her sodden fur, dripping into her eyes and completely soaking the immediate area beneath her.
"Are you- are you okay?"
"I think...I'm concussed," she admits with a groan. Her jaw feels like it rusted, her tongue a dead weight in her mouth. Water would be nice. Is it still raining? "I'm seeing...colors..Is that strange?" Color vision is not strange, of course. What she meant to say is that she is seeing emotion as colors, but her mind is not entirely in the right place at the moment. An intense ringing suddenly fills her skull, and Peri winces for a single, debilitating moment. Ughh. "I'm sorry if I scared you..I was just taking a walk and then..and then...it was like I was being pulled?" It is not that the memory is fading, it's just that it does not feel real at all. Will they even believe her if she tells the truth? Peri doubts it. Still feels like a dream. A very vivid, very painful dream. "There was a string, and it dragged me down, down. I couldn't breathe—I thought I was going to die, but then I woke up and I was...I was in space...or something."
See? It sounds weird just saying it. She feels like a lunatic. Like she ate some bad meat or something and now she's paying the price. But those blackness hanging around them is still there, so it must be true, right? She is lost in her thoughts once more, but Suiteheart's question manages to snatch her attention before she has the chance to pass out. "I'm not sure...I was floating for a while and then She was done speaking to me so I was sent back...I guess that included being rocket launched?"
A vague notion that someone is yelling at her drags her attention back to the people standing before her, and she realizes that she missed almost the entirety of Moon's anxiety-driven rant. Upon Suite's instruction to sit, Imperia sways slightly as if she were still out on the water before unceremoniously falling backwards onto her rump. Rivulets of water spill from her sodden fur, dripping into her eyes and completely soaking the immediate area beneath her.
"Are you- are you okay?"
"I think...I'm concussed," she admits with a groan. Her jaw feels like it rusted, her tongue a dead weight in her mouth. Water would be nice. Is it still raining? "I'm seeing...colors..Is that strange?" Color vision is not strange, of course. What she meant to say is that she is seeing emotion as colors, but her mind is not entirely in the right place at the moment. An intense ringing suddenly fills her skull, and Peri winces for a single, debilitating moment. Ughh. "I'm sorry if I scared you..I was just taking a walk and then..and then...it was like I was being pulled?" It is not that the memory is fading, it's just that it does not feel real at all. Will they even believe her if she tells the truth? Peri doubts it. Still feels like a dream. A very vivid, very painful dream. "There was a string, and it dragged me down, down. I couldn't breathe—I thought I was going to die, but then I woke up and I was...I was in space...or something."
See? It sounds weird just saying it. She feels like a lunatic. Like she ate some bad meat or something and now she's paying the price. But those blackness hanging around them is still there, so it must be true, right? She is lost in her thoughts once more, but Suiteheart's question manages to snatch her attention before she has the chance to pass out. "I'm not sure...I was floating for a while and then She was done speaking to me so I was sent back...I guess that included being rocket launched?"