Disclaimer: Any and everything even remotely recognizable is not mine.
My eyes are burning, itching, watering. Tears are streaming down my face as I plummet downwards in a pit of oblivion. Darkness consumes my being. Every movement, thought, breath is being eaten away. Pain laces through my body as if there were lacerations cutting through every fiber of skin. My body, wracked with horrible, heaving sobs spasmed sporadically. With no control of myself I simply float in an endless sea of despair and loneliness. I feel a building craving for comfort and perhaps even a craving for Thor. Never once, not since I was a small child, had such pathetic desires broken through my strong mental barriers, ripping away all facades. All at once I feel younger than I had in many centuries yet terribly old and weary of the world and life.
I wonder how long I shall fall, how long I shall survive. I do not know how long I have been falling, all sense of time having left me; however, by the growing clenching in my stomach signaling a need for food I knew it had been too long.
I keep falling, and my wandering thoughts start resting. My mind giving up, falling asleep to escape the endless torment of my body. I slowly lose all sense of the world.
Falling.
Falling.
Falling.
Falling.
A pinch in my stomach, it does not matter.
Falling.
Falling.
Something is gripping me, perhaps…
Falling.
I am whipped through the air, breaking the stillness around me. My eyes shoot open, darting around, trying to regain an understanding of my surroundings. The world is spinning too fast, moving faster than my eyes could register, the wind causing my eyes to snap shut. For a second I consider struggling, but I know I am weak. My muscles are atrophied and my head is pounding so hard that I can feel my heartbeat vibrating underneath my skin. I give in to the pull, letting myself easily string along, following whatever current is guiding me.
After a time the pull lessens and I begin slowing. The pressure on my body is lifting, and I risk opening my eyes again. For a second, the world remains dark and my mind screams at me. I felt the primal terror that I had lost the ability to see. However, that fear soon gives way to relief when lights filter into my eyes. Wait, light. There is light around me, and a large shape in front of me. I am approaching a planet. I am reaching a destination. The pull continues to slow, and once again I am falling, this time towards the planet.
By the time I reach the planet and touch the surface I am barely drifting. Somehow, instead of falling I had begun to float. The planet wrapping me in a warm, protective energy. I wonder where I am, the feeling of trepidation encroaching my thoughts. Every piece of me, from the tips of my hair to the edge of my toes, is filled with paranoia. I start filing away details. The soft feeling of dirt under my feet, the warm, almost humid, air, and the tall, twisted trees surrounding again I am struck by a strange feeling of comfort and this time recognize it as familiarity. A niggling thought reminded me of where I was before wriggled away from my grasp. Yes, I definitely knew where I was.
Suddenly everything froze and I could feel a presence behind me. Regardless of the familiarity of this place, I would defend myself. I clench my first and prepared to whip around to confront my would be attacker when I feel a pair of arms wrap around me and a smell I would never forget drift to my nose. It was not possible. I spin around and grasp her tightly. There in front of me, standing as pretty as the day I had to watch her leave, stood my daughter. My Hela.
Author's Note: Okay, that one took a lot out of me. It was fun to write, but also ended up going somewhere that I did not think it would. Oh well, at least there's progress. I did get a review telling me my chapters were too short. Well, I don't think that will continue to be an issue. Trust me, the length of each chapter has been pretty intentional. I have a plan, and I think it will suit the purpose of this story very well. Anyway… please review this chapter and tell me all your inner thoughts. I really want to know what you guys are thinking. Should I keep up with this story? Is it interesting? So far I mostly rely on my sister's opinion, but I worry she's a little biased so I could definitely use some outside opinions.