Sophie

Sophie gasped as she reappeared next to Fintan in a dark forest.  She immediately collapsed.  The circlet was draining her of all her energy, and the Neverseen took her nexuses away the first day she was captured so the Black Swan wouldn't find her location.

And now, without her nexuses and mentally and physically drained, Sophie looked down to see herself a ghostly pale color.  Patches of her skin was translucent even. 

She had lost part of herself to the leap.

Fintan cursed, and squatted next to Sophie.  Fighting to stay conscious, Sophie barely registered him reaching for one of her many necklaces - the one with the tiny spray bottle of her special limbium-free Fade Fuel - and spraying in front of her face.

"Breathe in."  Fintan commanded as he put the necklace back on her and lit up his left palm with fire to provide light while holding Sophie up with his right.  He held his palm dangerously close to Sophie's face, illuminating her frightened eyes.  

Sophie's vision was starting to go black around the edges - tunnel vision, which she remembered learning about while she was in highschool - and she started hyperventilating, breathing in the Fade Fuel in quick, jerky breaths.

"Hurry up!"  Fintan muttered.  "We have places to be!"  He pulled Sophie up by her chains, and started pulling her deeper into the forest. 

Sophie felt herself become weightless for a moment before she landed hard on her feet.  Groaning, she focused on walking, and not falling flat on her face from exhaustion.  

Left, right.  Left, right.  Left, right.  Left, right.  Sophie thought, a silent chant in her head.  

"We have to hurry!"  Fintan sneered, pulling Sophie faster.  "We need to get there before dark!"  The sun was rapidly setting in the distance, and Sophie had no clue where they were going.

One mile is 5,280 feet.  So, that's 2,140 times to chant "Left, right."  Sophie calculated in her head.  Well, probably more.  My shoe size is pretty small.  She thought, and almost laughed aloud. 

They walked for what seemed like hours on end.  At one point, Sophie had to stop.  She just couldn't keep going.  She fell to the ground, moaning, as her eyes unwillingly shut and gave away to an inky and welcoming darkness.  Until it became a blinding white.

"Get up!"  Fintan screamed, his fiery hands inches away from Sophie's face.  

Sophie couldn't help it.  She screamed.

She was just so exhausted.  So mad.  So depressed.  So heartbroken.  It had been over a week, and her friends still hadn't rescued her.  They had no clue where she was.  If she was alive or not.

Her scream shook the surrounding trees, and her circlet shattered.  Shards of glinting metal floated around her as Fintan collapsed, writhing in agony to the ground.

Everything was coated in red.  All of her pent-up anger was finally being released.  All those years of the Neverseen killing people she loved - Kenric, Mr. Forkle, Calla, Jolie.  How they kidnapped her parents.  How the Black Swan tweaked her DNA.  Those nights she spent crying when Keefe joined the Neverseen.

All of her painful memories came out in one single scream.

And it felt so good.

Sooooo, how was it?  Cliche, I know, but this whole story kind of is...  *sighs*

Welp, school started for me today, so I won't be on Wattpad as much.

I hope you liked it! 

-Pi