Thread: Jade's Journal of Posts, Plots and Other Stuff

Victorian Tailor A space adventure Two posts separated by ---- Beep, beep, beep. That was her life now. Darkness and the never ending beeping. Was she even alive anymore. Probably. Death would be too kind. Get her! She's escaping!! Footsteps, shortness of breath, bright hallways. Where was she? Someone was chasing her! A loud bang and pain in her shoulder. Darkness. Always darkness. Cat! Where you have been?! Mother? No. A woman's voice but not her mother. Sister? Yes. This is happy. I want you to meet Julian. He's Alistor's cousin, the one I told you about! A man's face. HIS face. So it was because of her sister. Beep, beep, beep. Nooooooo, Mom!! How depressing. Was this what it was to see your life flash before your eyes? Wasn't it supposed to be faster than this? She didn't want to see anymore. She just wanted it to be over. HIS smiling face. HIS hand reached out to her. Lies. His laughter. The fake laughter. She had been such a fool. Beep, beep, beep. Did you really think I was serious? She was in a lab now. Why was she in a lab again? Look at yourself. Settler trash. That's right. She remembered now. What an ass. Darkness. Sold? You sold me? Her voice. She hadn't heard her own voice in so long. I'm so sorry. Father. That's right. She remembered that now too. Her sister had gotten sick and they needed money. Beep, beep. She's getting away! How does she keep getting out?! Silence. It's too quiet. Beep, beep, beep. Ah, there it is. White lights. Cold metal against her back. HIS smirk. Did you really think you could escape? Cold laughter. You're too valuable now. Enough. Just...enough. ----------------------------------------------------- The moment that the lid was taken off of the coffin, Cat sat up and gasped for air, her long dark hair falling forward around her shoulders like a shawl as she gripped the sides of the coffin for support. Then one of the tears that had been building up, trickled down her chin and fell on her clothes. Air! She could breathe! She took large gulps of air as if she were afraid that it would go away again. The man's voice made her jump and she scrambled back as far away from him as she could in the coffin, bringing her knees up to her chest and hugging them protectively. What was he pointing a weapon at her for? It wasn't like she was in any condition to do anything. She stared from the gun to his hand and back again. Talk about mixed signals. What did he want her to do? She looked around frantically to find some other hint as to what she was supposed to do, using the faint glow of the green woman to see by. So many people. This wasn't like the other place though. It didn't feel right. Had they sent space pirates after her because they couldn't risk coming for her themselves? Probably, the cowards. She took another deep breath and looked back at the man with the gun, Pike he had called himself, then slowly let it out. Where? She winced at the sound of her own voice as it came out raspy sounding and barely over a whisper. How long had it been since she had spoken? Long before she was actually placed in that coffin, she knew, but she didn't know how long that had been exactly.