Thump…
Thump…
Thump…
Her heart is racing, almost beating out of her chest as she hides behind one of the fallen trees.
She looks around, seeing no way out… only green nothingness for as far as she can see.
She muffles her sobs, hoping that those kids will just leave her alone… she’s already got one black eye… maybe that’s enough?
As soon as she thinks this she hears that shrill voice call out
“Where’d you go freak? Think you can hide from us?”
Koieta has to cover her mouth to stop the mixture of a yelp and sob from seeping out.
“Come on Lil miss gray, don’t be a lil chicken!”
One of the other kids calls out.
Koieta freezes, her mind unable to choose between wanting to run home to her mothers for safety or being too fear-ridden to do even more.
She wants to stand up to them, be big and strong like her mom… but the thought of it only spurs more sobbing from her.
She closes her eyes, hoping she might wake from this living njghtmare…
But as she does, she feels a hand on her arm that yanks her out and onto the ground.
“Got her! I can’t even tell if she’s looking at me… look how weird her eyes are gosh”
One of the kids cackles.
Koieta goes to say something but only a small peep comes out
”What cat got your tongue? Do you even have a tongue monster?”
They jest, as she feels a swift kick to her stomach causing her to wince and yelp in pain
Her sobbing only grows louder, as she barely mutters “pl…please just…just leave me alone”
The kids laugh and retort
“speak up weirdo, I couldn’t hear you over that ugly looking face you’ve got.”
Koieta at this point is a mess, a bloody nose, black eye, bruises everywhere, and tears and snot from all the crying
She just wants to be home
To never leave again
She just wants a hug
She just wants them to…
”STOP”
Her voice echos through the trees, almost resonating with the wind of the forest. She doesn’t even realize what just happened, just continuing to sob with her eyes shut tight…
Then after a few minuets of nothing, she opens her eyes to see the kids who were just bullying her not moments ago, just standing there… still.
She scurried back away from them still crying. Did she… she do that?
She didn’t know, all she knew was at that moment she could run…
So she did, she ran, and ran, and ran until she ended up almost tripping on the door step of her house.
She flung the door open, and quickly ran to find one of her moms
Almost tackling them with a hug once she did
She was scared… in pain… confused… and worst of all
She didn’t realize what had happened in that moment
This was her first time casting a spell without her instrument
Yet, she didn’t realize it
She didn’t even know she casted a spell…
Her emotions were just in pure turmoil, something that she should’ve picked up on…
Something that might affect her spells…
But instead, she did what she had to do
She ran, and blocked that moment out
Only thinking of running home to safety, to her bed, her house, her mom’s
Running right into the arms that she was now in
She still couldn’t help but just sob, no words escaped from her mouth no matter how hard she tried
Her voice was dead for this moment. A side effect of forcing out such a spell from before
But she didn’t know or care, she didn’t want to talk anyways….