03-04-2018, 09:02 PM
It is a precarious dance. The stranger’s voice is soothing in the girl’s ears and with each further push into the depths of her mind Instinct’s sirens are quieter.
“Leave. Run. Dang” —
The promises of meat and hunting encourage her closer to the stranger. Mother had only released her from the confines of Home hours ago. Father, who normally took her hunting when she was too clumsy or uneducated to take herself, was nowhere to be found. Her stomach feels hollow and cold, bitterly mewling for fresh meat (blood dripping off muscle, tendon pulling from bone, intestine sliding from a crevice of her own creation).
There is more saliva in her mouthes than there was a moment before. Her vision blurs for a moment and her muscles quiver. There is a strange sensation — the feeling of being pushed to the corner of her mind, caged like a fluttering bird — and Instinct is screaming.
“DANGER, RUN, LEAVE!”
But she can’t. She is clawing at the metal bars of her cage, trapped from within the membranes of her mind. She trills, long and sharp. A scream of her own, one that does not leave the confines of her brain.
“Leave. Run. Dang” —
The promises of meat and hunting encourage her closer to the stranger. Mother had only released her from the confines of Home hours ago. Father, who normally took her hunting when she was too clumsy or uneducated to take herself, was nowhere to be found. Her stomach feels hollow and cold, bitterly mewling for fresh meat (blood dripping off muscle, tendon pulling from bone, intestine sliding from a crevice of her own creation).
There is more saliva in her mouthes than there was a moment before. Her vision blurs for a moment and her muscles quiver. There is a strange sensation — the feeling of being pushed to the corner of her mind, caged like a fluttering bird — and Instinct is screaming.
“DANGER, RUN, LEAVE!”
But she can’t. She is clawing at the metal bars of her cage, trapped from within the membranes of her mind. She trills, long and sharp. A scream of her own, one that does not leave the confines of her brain.