Veg-notables: So this one was a bit of a trip…a sober one at that and not my usual fare. Seems I was in a mood last night.. Oops… and since I put the effort into it, I have to see it through in all its ….oddness.
@gumnut-logic .::hugs cause she knows why::
::Strikes a He-man pose:: “ By the power of Thunderhead ….” Wait..? what? That doesn’t sound right..” ::goes back to the drawing board:::
Blanket warning: Existential float through nothingness ...
Characters: The Vegetable
Whumptober - TaG’verse
Previous post can be found HERE
9. Shackled
Enjoy…
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He was trapped in a void of white and nothingness. Floating in an abyss of never-ending brightness that stung his eyes even closed.
His brows were drawn tight, pinched at the apex of his nose with his frown of confusion. A bafflement almost viscous in its density, clouded his thoughts. Coloured his mind in turbulent muddy hues slashed with angry shades of puce Murky browns and grisly grays swirled and menaced but outside that everything was blank.
Shifting, mists of effervescence swirled on senseless air currents from unimagined, unseen sources. Lost to the brume that concealed everything
His physical being floundered, stupefied and cloaked in a shroud of numbness that left him deadened to the vacuum that encompassed all
He was shackled to the knowledge that this could be it, his new everything. Apart from the place he had been before but he couldn’t reconcile why it differed from his current existence.
He tethered himself to the fluttering thread of memories. Tried to grasp the ragged, tattered remains of them and piece them back together into some form of cohesion.
A wisp of rich ebony, a sun kissed swirl of ginger, a smattering of ocher peppered with abalone and a cacophony of lively shades of blonde.
They danced and skittered around the periphery, ever out of his reach. Eluding his blundering attempts to tamped them into place.
Frustration swelled, brimmed over and erupted but to no avail. The teasing of his memories would not abate and coalesce.
There was a ticking just on the cusp of his hearing that carried a warning, a foreboding sense of dread that this time and place though vast, was not limitless.
And in that finiteness he knew without a shadow of a doubt he would be forever barred from the before place.
The cruelty of that ending stoked the tinder of his fury and with a powerful surge; a last ditch effort, he latched on to a tendril.
Contact brought with it a warmth that suffused him. Overwhelmed in its intensity, his will refused to let go.
A breath of sound, breezed by his ear. Tickled his nap and shuddered down his spine.
A whisper of fingers ghosted across his flesh and a quacking of something wanton reverberated in his chest.
All in the blink of an eye.
It then shifted and warped. Sparks of other things filtered through.
The quiver of a worried voice, the anger of another.
Heat, cold, passion, fire, anger, and pain. It was now everywhere and it played like in a chaotic torrent of sound and light but ever just out of reach
Arresting his questing mind, assaulting his perceptions.
The void was still there hovering just beyond and it beckoned.
Turning, he looked back from the maelstrom. The peace and solitude welcoming him. The nothingness inviting him to a place free of the ornery nature of mankind and it was tempting.
Hesitantly he stepped towards it, reached out with a quivering hand and his fingertips brushed against the shimmering portal.
A flash of electricity tingle up his limb and culminated in the center of his chest with an icy burst. The well of gravity abruptly shifted and a chilled grasp took hold, pulled him.
He bulked, unsure if he should go forward and back, up or down. One hand braced against the frigid circumference.that framed the portal.
One way lay peace and the emptiness of death, the other chaos and the robustness of life. The forever silence or the orchestra of being.
The choice was simple. Bolstered, he pushed off.
Unshackled by the heft of his decision, he plunged back into the anarchy.
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Additional note: This one might leave you with some questions.. If so, fire away.. I am happy to answer.
