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ya_assemble2015-04-17 09:46 pm
juniordreddy) wrote in ya_assemble2015-04-17 09:46 pm
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[LN] Send in the clowns
This was a nightmare. Except it wasn't a nightmare. Tino had pinched himself no less than eight times and still hadn't woken up. Eight times!
The last thing he remembered, he was hanging out with his friends, sitting on the small wall at the beach. Then he'd lost consciousness and woken up in a strange, dark scary warehouse. One that seemed to be full of carnival equipment. Here and there an ominous sight peeped out from the shadows, illuminated by beams of light through the holes in the warehouse roof. A carousel horse with faded paint here, a rusted sign with a teddy bear face on it there.
"Okay, I'm ready to wake up now!" he called out. "Totally ready to wake up. Ready to commit to that waking up thing like a champ and give it one hundred and ten percent."
He wasn't waking up.
"Waking up in three, two, one...go!" Nope. "Annnd...go!"
That wasn't working. Why wasn't it working?!
Tino turned around to find a clown statue staring at him and let out a high-pitched screech of terror and ran away from it, nearly tripping over his own feet as he did it, until he was a good distance away.
"Where's the way out? Come on come on come on..."
The last thing he remembered, he was hanging out with his friends, sitting on the small wall at the beach. Then he'd lost consciousness and woken up in a strange, dark scary warehouse. One that seemed to be full of carnival equipment. Here and there an ominous sight peeped out from the shadows, illuminated by beams of light through the holes in the warehouse roof. A carousel horse with faded paint here, a rusted sign with a teddy bear face on it there.
"Okay, I'm ready to wake up now!" he called out. "Totally ready to wake up. Ready to commit to that waking up thing like a champ and give it one hundred and ten percent."
He wasn't waking up.
"Waking up in three, two, one...go!" Nope. "Annnd...go!"
That wasn't working. Why wasn't it working?!
Tino turned around to find a clown statue staring at him and let out a high-pitched screech of terror and ran away from it, nearly tripping over his own feet as he did it, until he was a good distance away.
"Where's the way out? Come on come on come on..."
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Except he was still breathing, even if he was breathing too fast and even if it hurt his throat. His body ached and after that weird...thing he'd done when he moved, he was exhausted, but he still felt firmly alive.
No, it was the lady that'd come in. She was standing over him, protecting him, light appearing from her hands and floating in the air in a way that made it clear she had superpowers. Like the Lady Elmiron in the King of the Rings books. Or Photonagora in his Captain Dreadnaught comics.
The voice she spoke with was eerie, especially since the pounding in his ears made it sound like it was coming through a long tunnel, but at the same time...it wasn't. It was scary in a way that made it seem like it was only supposed to be scary to evil things. The layers added a strange depth that wasn't necessarily bad.
And the light was too bright but it was also beautiful.
Tino closed his eyes against the light and blacked out again, as if his injured and overtaxed body had decided that the presence of the young woman meant it was safe enough to do so.