"... hear me? Are you okay?"
unconscious meme || accepting
[she hears his voice before anything else. as if he’s far away, a sweet siren pulling her from slumber. and the sentiment is sweet but the reality is not. it’s quite ugly really, as days tend to be.]
[hands brace her pallid cheeks, and for a moment her eyes struggle to focus. she see’s shapes and colours first before anything else, can’t quite remember where she is, what happened, what’s wrong. she does know that she doesn’t like it.]
[she struggles to catch her breath which comes in soft pants, fat tears leaving glistening streaks as the race down her cheeks. it takes her a moment, but she nods.]
[it’s easy to forget sometimes, that she is not of this world. that she is a symphony of light and the cosmos, a pinprick of galaxies trapped in the frailty of a soft human. and it’s too much, a bright span of night funnelled into bones and pale skin. it shouldn’t surprise her when her body rejects it. rejects her. shuts down in a series of jolts and seizures. at least vasille is there to help put the pieces together.]
[ hands search out for his, and very slowly she nods. her voice is a tiny whisper, barely able to escape her mouth, hanging heavily in the bedroom where he found her lying upon the floor.]
“i-i’m…– yeah. i j-just…– sorry i-it happens sometimes.”
[a weak smile, marred by tears and a trembling that refuses to leave her body.] “h-help me up?”