This was a challenge of sorts given to me when I was proofreading something similar my friend had written.
So go read hers, as well, if you wish: What Do You Think of Her? by Noel Cassidy
Just a quick mention: any typos, grammar issues or capitalization problems in this one are deliberate.
Such a simple short phrase that meant more to me than aurodium.
Now, sure, it wasn't like I didn't value wealth - a guy's gotta live and the Falcon… well, she certainly didn't run on words. But those words...
I'd never heard them before - not like that, at least: as a last desperate gasp, a pleading. I knew what I should've said back, knew what she wanted to hear.
But I couldn't say it.
"I know."
I couldn't say it - not that simple phrase, that short impossible word. Not even with where I stood, the floor dropping away under me.
Those eyes.
She watched me and I couldn't look away. I didn't want to.
If these were to be my last moments I wanted this to be my last sight - those eyes staring at me with so much concern, so much l-
...D-, but I couldn't even think the word!
The eyes were gone - swallowed up by a hot-cold cloud - and then...
Nothing.
It didn't even hurt.
At least I don't think so.
Maybe it did. At first
a second that was forever...
or the other way 'round...
And...
now nothing
Except that word.
Those eyes.
nothing and
everything.
...
...
what am i
nothing... except
That word and
Those eyes.
nothing - not darkness or light. not movement or stillness or... cold or warm...
...
...
are they okay?
Those eyes-
theyre so sad.
That word - it means something - something worth more
than anything else...
was it... Was it mine?
...
an eternity and a second ago
...
...
...
something...
freezing-hot, burning-cold PAIN!
but nothing else.
then a voice - harsh, cold, grating...
i hear myself asking why i can't see.
what does that even mean?
what are they saying?
who is it?
That word…
That voice - it's hers! The owner of those pleading eyes...
who watched the floor dropping out under me...
And I remembered.
Everything.
If I ever saw her again - saw those eyes - I swore to myself I'd say that word.
Yeah, one day I'd say it back to her.