The rain is still coming down in sheets and while an observer might not be able to tell, there's a burning heat that distinguishes her tears from the precipitation. Every time lightning flashes overhead, Jac flinches and bites down on the inside of her cheek. It is obvious that she is the cause of this storm, and she has already lost so much because of her mistakes. Losing control again is the last thing anyone needs right now.
She hiccups as she looks up at the sky, trying to focus as if she can calm the winds herself. Jac starts small, body swaying slightly with the gusts around her. She lets herself flow into it, leaning into its momentum and bringing it back around to slow the air whipping around her. It's strange to be using her magic like this, when the threat isn't something she can fight.
Within a few minutes, the worst of the winds have died down and Jac sinks to her knees, feeling the mud squelch under her legs. It doesn't matter. None of it matters and she tries not to fall deeper into her despair. She feels her approach before she sees her, a figure cutting through the pocket of calm that she has produced around them, and she freezes when she sees Dani come up over the lip of the crater she has been sitting in as she cradles her mother's body.
"I'm sorry." The words come out as barely a whisper but in the eye of the hurricane, Jac doesn't know how to be louder. She wonders if she should back away, give over the responsibility to Dani like she was always meant to, but that hardly seems fair to her older sister.
"I'm sorry," she repeats again, voice cracking. "I didn't think..." / @diamondfeng
