RUNE
I tear my heart open,
I sew myself shut.
My weakness is
I care too much.
My scars remind me
The past is real.
I tear my heart open
Just to feel.
Listening to the music… letting it pulse in my flesh, my bones, my heart. Letting it flow throughout me, eyes closed, finger tap, tap, tapping on the branch I'm lying on, high above everything, precariously balanced. I sigh and turn off my little ipod shuffle and hear something down below. It's not the usual shuffling of the trees or the footsteps of a cougar stalking its prey. I lean over my branch.
"Where… am…"
"Shut up little girl!"
I gasp and crawl to the edge of my branch. There's two women in sundresses, one of them slung over the other's shoulder. The one on the shoulder flails momentarily.
"Let me GO!" She hits the ground, but before she can get up, the other woman has her foot on her back.
"No, no little girl. No running away." A jolt of electricity flashes from her leg to the girl, and the girl lays still.
I don't stay to see any more.
Ipod in my pocket I jump from branch to branch, searching for someone, anyone! I've been gone for so long with nothing but my music and the clothes on my back… I haven't seen myself in the mirror in ages. I don't remember how to get back to any town, I only know my own little hut in the trees where I keep my solar panels. I stop to listen.
You have to listen for abnormalities, anything that's not the trees, then anything that's not a predator, then anything that's not their prey.
My eyes fly open and my head shoots to the left. Far off I can see a flash of black on the ground. It's either a weasel, or a person.
"Hey!"
After a moment of silence, I get a reply. "…hello?"
Got him.
Oh gosh it was so hard to figure out how I was going to do this… -_- anyways, here it is… not sure how I feel about it.