She had told him to run. She had told him to get away. She had gone one way and he the other both running at their respective top speeds. He went to the lake. She went to the forest. The wind howled and the storm raged above them.
He wished she stayed with him, but she said she had to get something. He arrived at the shore. The lake was wide and endless, willing to swallow an unwary victim lest they pay respect. He ducked a ways up the shore, burrowing himself into the gravely sand as the storm manipulated it's wrath above.
The rain stung like flecks of ice. If it were any colder she may have attested to it. She headed to an overbearing cave she had discovered, going for a tarp she knew they would need. At the cave the rain was almost horizontal, coming as sheets through the frigid air. She stuffed the thing under her arms and went for the beach.
She found him with little difficulty and they bunked down, riding out the cold and the water, the tarp as their only barrier to this awful tempest.
They hear the funnel before they see it.
Like a great finger of god brought down to the land to smite the earth herself. She says it won't go to the water. He knows it will anyway. He knows that he's seen footage. He says it will kill them. She tells him to be quiet.
"it won't go to the water"
"it can't go to the water"
She repeats this mantra till he almost starts to believe her.
The rage of the sky doesn't last long, but while it was there, they watched in the pure state of fear and terror. It raged across the land and up the bank of trees, throwing its waste like toothpicks. A ditch of sand and a mantra of bottomless hope is what keeps them on.
After everything is calm, and the sun has risen, they stay in the sand holding each other. Rather, he holds her and cries. She sits there and lets him wallow into her and repeats how lucky they are.
We've had some tornadoes recently in my area. I'm not really sure how that prompted this especially since Michigan isn't quite in tornado alley. Doesn't mean it can't happen though I don't guess.