Camp NaNoWriMo: Day 4 & 5
Intro | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
WIP: As Dreams Collide (wip page | tag | camp nano)
Official Goal: 60,000 words
Written on Day 4: 3,928 words
Written on Day 5: 3,170 words
Total Day 4: 16,943 words
Total Day 5: 20,113 words
I really wanted to do an update the day before yesterday but I hated everything I’d written and basically just rewrote everything yesterday x)
The Asim (thankfully) just raises an eyebrow. Then she sighs, looking at him. Her whole body seems to collapse.
“I don’t know what to tell you”, she says in a weirdly flat voice. “Something is very wrong with your brother, and it’s a miracle that he’s still alive at all. Nobody knows what to make of him. My mentor sent for the Regulator again, for a professional opinion. He should be here any minute now.”
My parents go very still.
I’m suddenly very cold.
The air smells like snow, and tiny golden sparks make everything glimmer and shine;
An unearthly wailing echoes through the room; the taste of blood; for a moment I’m in two places at once, one grey and sharp, the other the hospital room—
—someone grips my shoulders and darkness swallows me, forming the shape of a face I don’t quite know. Then Papa is there, pulling me into his embrace, lifting me up.
My face is wet and my eyes burn. I bury myself in Papa’s shoulder, uncertain why, flustered and ashamed.
The Regulator’s eyes are on my back even if he’s not there (except he always is, lurking, watching, looming). I shiver. Papa pats my head clumsily. I feel bad about all the times I shouted at him.
“If I were you I’d be gone when he arrives”, the Asim says. Her voice pulls me back, makes me remember what she said.
And Ben.
My heart starts to race again.
“That… sounds reasonable”, Mama’s voice replies.
I watch the Asim leave over Papa’s shoulder, feeling cold and hot and sick. Before she closes the door behind herself I hear her mutter: “I’ve already said far too much”, and wonder, just for a moment, what I missed.
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