As she sat before the silver stranger, Lyra shook out a second time, her ears flopping side to side and removing more of her somersault-gifted adornments. She was entirely oblivious to whatever heavy thoughts and haunting anxieties may have been looming over the man’s head, he’d given no tells as to what lay beneath the surface. She beamed up at him, her warm attitude about the unusual situation was not out of character for her and the other hadn’t seemed to put off by it either. Maybe this wasn’t the first time someone had crashed into him after falling from a cliff side.
Softly rounded ears cupped forward, the girl’s head tilting ever-so-slightly at his reassurance. It was kind of him, but he’d made it sound like a normal thing everyone would face sooner or later. Was it common to experience such unpredictable events? It wasn’t strange that she’d forgotten how she got up there, he’d said, a perfectly reasonable explanation, he claimed.
Reasonable explanation… Lyra’s head tipped to the other side as she tried to put fragmented pieces of the puzzle together. She was missing the "reasonable” part.
Amaris,she tested his name with a grin as bright and warm as sun beams, her own glee evident in the tone she spoke with. It sounded pretty. But it was the next bit that felt strange to hear—a whole new world. Was it because she’d never been here before and he was able to pick up on her lack of awareness?
Mmmmm,Lyra hummed, a glance given towards the steep drop she came barreling down mere moments ago.
I was running in a meadow, chasing a bunny through the tall grass and wildflowers. It was… sunny. Really sunny,now that she thought about it, it couldn’t have been much later than noon, but here she stood, bathed in the rich beams of the setting sun. The whole day had vanished in the blink of an eye.
I don’t remember going up a mountain, or even a hill. I was just running, and then I was falling,as if a hole appeared and swallowed her up.
A moment ticked past, and a nagging question lingered in her mind.
I’m guessing there’s no meadow up there?
