by Anonymous
Her long hair beat across her face as she fell, the violent wind stinging her cheeks rosy. Her body pierced through the air like a cannon, sinking deeper into the blackness. She opened her eyes again to the fall. She could see the prickly weeds and crumbling dirt of the ground surrounding her speed past as she sunk farther into the empty earth. She reached her hand out to touch it, the loose ground melting off of its edges at the touch of her fingertips. Seconds would pass before she would feel the ground crumble where she had made contact, dusting her black hair a rusty brown color. The wind lapped at her skin like water, and it wasn’t long until she began to fear impact.
The opening above her became swallowed by the blackness, the sky the size of a raindrop. She closed her eyes as the speed picked up. Without her sight, the deafening sound of thrashing air could be mistaken for fighter jets taking off. Her body began to spiral, twirling itself into a disjointed dance, a turbulent waltz. A sudden coolness draped over her skin like an invisible cloak. She opened her eyes at the feeling, only to find a cloud of mist filling her vision. If it wasn’t for the slick feeling on her skin as the droplets collected, she would have thought she was staring out at smoke. She breathed out one final icy breath before the cold water filled her lungs.
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