TITLE: Chapter One
CHARACTERS: Astrid Farnsworth
POV: Astrid
RATING: M
SUMMARY: "What happened?" she asked aloud…"
CHALLENGE: Alice in Wonderland
WORD COUNT: 178
WARNINGS: None
AUTHOR'S NOTE: I'm trying to perfect my dark/surreal work.
DISCLAIMER: unbeta'd
"Where am I?"
Astrid woke in a dark sea, floating on her back. She looked at the blackness above her. There were no stars.
"What happened?" she asked aloud and to her surprise, an orange smoke poured out of her mouth.
It illuminated the small space above her, a glowing yellow that reminded her more of fire than the sun. She blew out more of the smoke into the sky and she could see very, very far off in the distance there was a horizon and islands. Slowly, after at least a few more hours of floating, she realised she had no idea how she was supporting herself in the water for this long. Or why she wasn't cold. Or how she had ended up here in the first place. Her limbs felt as heavy as lead, so she was panting gold and red sparks by the time she managed to hold her hand up to where she could see it.
And when she did, she couldn't stop screaming.
She was floating in an ocean of blood.