Thistle

Misaki · 02-25-2007, 09:58 PM

Okie dokie, started a book, as I want to be a writer some day. Got to the second chapter with over 11'000 words... and my laptop broke. SO I had to start again. Luckily, I still have the first bit of the book. A prolued if you may. So here it is;

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Darkness. Nothing but darkness. Like at night when you turn the lights off and blink through those few moments of sudden blindness. The cold fog all around seemed to get thicker instead of thinner as I walked forward, towards the everlasting nothingness. A blur of a figure came into view, walking towards me through the dark. That terrifyingly sickening feeling swept through me and sent chills down my spine as I stood in one of those moments where time seemed to have slowed and I had all the time in the world to turn into the nothingness and run, to hide, in the cold, foggy dark. But even as I thought this the figure had gotten closer and stopped about 15 feet away from me. At first I couldn't make out what it was, then my eyes started to adapt and I could see that it was a girl. Well, almost. It (I couldn't bring myself to call it She) had large black, ripped wings folded down at its back, as if it were part bird. The body was definitely female; it was also wearing some sort of black dress. The dress was ragged and torn like the thing had been in a fight with something bigger, yet not stronger. For it had only ripped the dress and cut a few scar-like scrapes down the things arms.
The things head was down, looking at the floor. But somehow I knew it was looking at me. Its long black hair, dirty and messy, hung down, covering its face like a curtain of filth. Its skin was grey and dry, with the cuts and scrapes trailing down its arms like snakes curling and twisting their bodies around a tasty animal.
Slowly its head rose, and I could see, or couldn't see, its face. This thing had no features! Just a blank space where the eyes, nose and lips should be.
A shrill screaming sound broke through the darkness...

My eyes snapped open and I looked around at my clock, sweat beading on my forehead, it read 6:30, September 5th. The start of the new school year. Great.