Death Around Every Corner
Landon sat in the infirmary with the others that were quarantined on the night of the mysterious attack. He sat in the corner of the room on the window sill, his knee raised up with his arm resting on it, and his chin nuzzled into his own bicep. He watched the snow fall across the simply empty field of snow around the infirmary. His chest felt heavy, He drank plenty of water, glass after glass but nothing seemed to subdue the burning sensation he was experiencing. He wasn’t adapt to the light healing, at least he hadn’t experienced it since being extremely young. Lily and him had spent years perfecting their herbalism as well as the alchemy required to create such elixirs. He couldn’t even begin to diagnose what was happening to try a certain medicine. He sat there shaking his head for what felt like years, staring into the blanket of snow outside.
Outside of the window, he could have sworn on his own life that he saw something, someone watching him with a wicked smile on her face. A black silhouetted woman at the end of the field. Her hands would raise as the soft, white snow would appear to almost rise from the ground. The hair on his neck immediately rose as all the snow began to melt, he was drowning. The water overtaking him as he felt himself slipping into the deep abyss. He saw the light slowly disappearing above him as he found himself short of breath.
He fell off the window sill. Getting up with a much embarrassed look on his face, he leaned on the window again, looking outside and seeing nothing but the clean blanket of snow again.
He shook his head, ignoring any nurses that would come to check on him, and he moved to the empty table also at the back of the room, drawing a small book from his bag. He pulled out an even smaller pencil and began to draw inside of the book.
The fires inside of him burned hotter and hotter as he attempted the best he could to subdue it. Normally his first intuition of seeing a woman at the end of a field would be to draw his bow and launch an arrow, no doubt he would hit her and take her out with one arrow, no problem. But with his strength severely affected, he couldn’t do anything about it.
