A COSMIC CONFLUENCE / aftermath

[deimos]

{tw for blood / gore!}

It tasted like blood. The roar of the crowd, the bouncing, the shouting of the Wildmen. At her side, Victor, who she'd come to learn was her worst mistake in choosing an ally. He was the enemy. He let her die. But the discovery, what she had learned, wasn't that of the Arena again. The sounds of crashing, the crackling of the earth, the roar of nearby flame. Her eyes slowly parted. Her breathing hurt. Where was she? Her eyes blinked, slowly, the raw heat overwhelming and the scent of her blood clear to her. Her vision swam as she tried to sit up, stuck beneath the branches of a tree. Where was Brandy? She just had him. She couldn't breath. A panic took over him, flames biting at her paws, then igniting, spreading all over her stomach.

And slowly, Sam remembered. The burning light in the sky, the human recognizing and understanding what it was. The panic in her chest as she grabbed her son, who whined and shouted at her- not truly realizing the danger they were in- and fled. But she wasn't fast enough. The groaning of a jungle tree as it toppled, the flames as it caught licking up it's bark and arcing towards her. Passing out at that time was not kosher. Sam cried out as she struggled beneath the tree, the necklace about her neck swinging as she tried to pull her right wing and leg free.

Was this it?

That thought caused her to freeze, staring at her paw. Her severed paw. Blood was awash, covering the undergrowth in that sickly red. The same sickly red that came from her neck when she lost her head. All of these memories. Her head filled with them, and the flames that ignited on her paws were suddenly her own, tinged a far deeper red then normal flame. She couldn't control it. Anxiety riddled her as she continued to try and tear her wing and leg free of the tree.

/ injury list so i remember later : broken right wing / broken right hind leg, missing hind right paw, major burns on her leg / wing / right side

"SPEECH"

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