you're the pulse that I've always needed (any)

[Lea]

The first thing she’s aware of is that she can’t breathe.


The air is hot and thick and a layer of something cold and alien lies right against her skin.  Her lungs scream for air and she struggles, lashing out.  Her hoof first connects, then breaks through something solid and a thin trickle of cool air reaches her throat.  She relaxes for a moment, trying to catch her bearings.  

What’s the last thing she can remember?  There had been a stallion, a winged stallion …

Her mind struggles to grasp the memory, but it slips away.  Something had happened.  Something bad.  But there’s no point in worrying about it now - the fact that she’s trapped is rather more pressing.  She lashes out again, breaking another small hole in whatever’s covering her.  What slow work.  A thought hits her and she grimaces.  “Oh you idiot.”  Her eyes close and she feels outward, mentally probing the substance around her.  There.  A weakness!  She pushes outward, forcing her power through the fissure.  She strains for one desperate moment … then crack!  The layer falls away and she lies free and open in the cool air.  She stands quickly, orange eyes darting about.  Where on earth is she?  She’s surrounded on sides by towering, intricate marble pillars and outside, an unfamiliar forest waits.  A monolithic gazebo in the middle of nowhere.  “What the hell?”

She steps forward through the gazebo’s only entrance, her eyes and ears straining for any sign of nearby life.  As she steps out into the trees, her surroundings suddenly become vaguely familiar.  She knows this place … 

Her head begins to swim.  In her mind’s eye, a stallion stands before her, strange and threatening.

She remembers.  She remembers everything.  “Oh god!”

She rushes forward, hooves travelling a path that is suddenly intimately familiar.  But her mind doesn’t dwell on her surroundings.  She has to find him.  “Errant!”

lea

you're the pulse that I've always needed