Summary: Drabble. Set during By a Whisker
Disclaimer: I'm just a fanfiction writer. All hail the rightful owners.
Carmen reclines back as the vessel tips and plummets away from the peak, relaxing her muscles into free fall.
As if from a distance, Ivy's scream reverberates in her ears.
This is what she lives for.
The rapture of risk,
Pulsing like white hot satin,
The foam roaring in her ears,
Shards of water blistering her skin,
Her shriek of feral triumph, drowned by the cascade's cacophony, as they pull her out of the drop,
"Yes, Yes!"
The thrill of the heist,
Better than any drug,
Better than any lover,
Better than anything,
Carmen, take my hand!
Well, Almost Anything.