"Please, tell us what happened."
Lorel blinked her eyes, trying her best to keep them open, but the hospital lights were a little bit too bright for her to fully process. Around her bed stood a crowd of her close friends, those who had worked so hard to find her. Shandy sat at her side, within hugging distance.
Lorel laughed a little bit, rubbing at her eyes and trying not to disrupt the IV. "I love you all..."
"We love you too, Finchi," said Asteria, leaning down to give Lorel a quick hug with tears in her eyes, despite the fact Lorel had told her over and over again not to cry.
She inhaled, and began telling her story.
"They had taken me while I was asleep. When I woke up I was tied to a chair, and couldn't use any of my magic. At first, I wasn't worried. I knew I would find a way out eventually. There's been a lot worse in my past than a few ropes. I didn't know who they were but it didn't concern me that much. Of course I was scared, but I wasn't going to let them see that. That would just give them what they wanted.
Closing her eyes, she kept talking. "It was dark and cold and lonely, and while that itself didn't really bother me, I was more concerned about what all of you were doing. At one point I figured out how to remove the cloth they had put in between my teeth and looped my arms in distance of my mouth, and I started chewing on the wires. Not the most glorious or cinematic way to escape, but I was out of options. I figured once I had my magic, I could just bust out of here and set the entire building ablaze and reduce it to nothing but a few ashes."
"But I was too late."
A pause. She shifted in the bed, coughing a little bit. All her external wounds had been healed, but there was still a lot of internal and soul damage that seemed to be beyond simple repair.
"When I saw my captor, I started laughing hysterically, but apparently that pissed her off. She had a copy of Shandy and Zen haul me off into this weird looking room, but by that point I was starting to lose consciousness, everything became a blur. I didn't remember anything, maybe it was a gas. Do blockheads breathe? Anyways, they started doing something to my soul. I could move and they left me all alone. I don't remember what it looked like but there was metal everywhere, restraining me. And that's when it started hurting.
"It burned unimaginably bad. It felt like water was filling my brain, blacking me out, all my senses were dulling. My chest felt like it was going to explode, and based on what you described, it does sound like a few blood vessels burst. Nothing felt real, my body didn't feel real. There were eyes all over my skin. I started knowing things about the world I didn't know before, I could feel myself coming apart under it all. It kept growing and growing and growing until finally I caught a glimpse of her - the other me. I could see things from her eyes. And I saw all of you below. And something happened.
"It was hot. But cold. It was everything but at the same time I didn't even exist. By the time I was lucid, the entire building was rubble. It was burnt to the ground, everything twisted and destroyed beyond repair. I could barely stand up. Every flick of my fingers set something on fire or trapped something in a wall of dry ice. I had no control anymore. I was unstable and volatile. You guys were the only ones who could control it.
"So I fled to the place I knew you would check next. I kept my hood drawn - I didn't know who was in on this scheme to keep me contained but I wasn't going to take any chances. During the nights I couldn't sleep. I was almost physically incapable of sleep at that point, so I'd let out all the pent up energy I had repressed that day in the more isolated parts of the woods. Trees would erupt into flames, and where the grass met my feet it would flourish and bloom and grow blossoms and then almost immediately afterwards wither and die. Even my physical form was fluctuating. These were powers I never had in the past, and I felt like a ticking time bomb. I was losing myself. When you all finally found me, I was at my very limits. Any longer and I might have died."
The room was dead silent.
Lorel thought it was funny apparently and laughed, before rolling over. "I don't like you all staring at me, makes me feel weird about this whole thing. I'm tired now, and I want to take a nap. I'm sad that I won't be able to use any magic for several months, but it's alright. I'll have to start small when I'm able to get up and walk around again. Until then, Shandy and Asteria will be my fluffy blankies."
Yawning, she closed her eyes before yanking up the blanket as far as it could go, getting cozy in the covers.
"Love you all... I really mean it to. You're my everything..."
And with that, she fell asleep again.
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HI I WROTE THIS IN LITERALLY 13 MINUTES SO IT PROBABLY SUX LOL BUT UH YEAH THIS WAS SUPER FUN AND I HOPE WE CAN DO AN RP LIKE THIS AGAIN SOON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! EVEN THOUGH I BARELY PARTICIPATED UNTIL THE VERY END IT WAS STILL VERY VERY FUN AND HOPEFULLY THE NEXT RP WILL BE EVEN BETTER THAN THE LAST.
THIS IS A RLLY DUMB EPILOGUE BUT W H A T E V E R IM GOING TO BE NOW
Also I wrote the scene where her soul starts getting amplified based on my own experiences with anesthisia. It got pretty scary once - it was like i was suffocating and my face was filling up my water and im like "HAHA now that ive EXPERIENCED it I can write something along those lines TEN TIMES BETTER" so yes hello im very smooth brained
- Lorel
