Aerie (2016)
“No one knows where she is, and I don’t either.
I press the button that calls to her. The screen lights up on my end, and I hope for a moment, but nothing. No answer. No Aza. All I see is dark, which cues up even more panic, but I can’t do anything about it. All I can do is be here. I try again. Again.
She’s not speaking to me, or maybe she’s— She’s out of range. That’s all. She’s out of range.
The burns feel like my heart has been taken out of my chest, and though I know that’s not true, it’s p...ersuasive. Wedda keeps covering them with new damp bandages. I have a fever. I’m not right at all, and I think that’s what I deserve. If I die of this, it’s fair. But before that, I have things to do. I feel a chill and then a rush of heat, a shivering questionable thing inside my skin, like I’m collapsing. Pea/Sun. Sun/Pea. I feel like I contain a lot of things I never meant to contain.
You don’t know how much you can lie until you find yourself in the middle of it, lying again to cover the lie you already gave out as truth.MoreLess
I press the button that calls to her. The screen lights up on my end, and I hope for a moment, but nothing. No answer. No Aza. All I see is dark, which cues up even more panic, but I can’t do anything about it. All I can do is be here. I try again. Again.
She’s not speaking to me, or maybe she’s— She’s out of range. That’s all. She’s out of range.
The burns feel like my heart has been taken out of my chest, and though I know that’s not true, it’s p...ersuasive. Wedda keeps covering them with new damp bandages. I have a fever. I’m not right at all, and I think that’s what I deserve. If I die of this, it’s fair. But before that, I have things to do. I feel a chill and then a rush of heat, a shivering questionable thing inside my skin, like I’m collapsing. Pea/Sun. Sun/Pea. I feel like I contain a lot of things I never meant to contain.
You don’t know how much you can lie until you find yourself in the middle of it, lying again to cover the lie you already gave out as truth.MoreLess
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