MM Prompt 9: Lightning
A/N: The past few themes I've written have been relatively short, vignette-like in nature (fan-nette?). Hopefully once finals wrap up I'll be able to tackle longer pieces.
Also, thanks so much to those of you who've been reading and reviewing. I really can't thank you enough.
Chapter 13- Lightning
He comes in flashes.
His golden eyes. His disgruntled frown. A fountain and a garden. Her past illuminates the walls of her bedroom chamber as the walls of her house creak with the storm.
The thunder rumbles, shaking her to her core, and for a split second she can feel it. The sting of her lungs as she gasps for air at the sight of his face covered in mud, an apple atop her head, the distinct thrill of his gaze on the back of her neck. It's a whisper on her skin as a roll of thunder washes over her.
But the sensation doesn't last forever. The thunder diminuendos back below the patter of the rain, and she waits for the lightning. Here a moment. Gone the next. She yearns for the flicker of lights across the sky, and the deep rumble that follows it.
And she is reminded of the day he left. There one moment. Gone the next. A Fire Nation prince condemned to a life at sea, he vanished into nothingness like an unanswered flash of lightning. Three years past, he returns the very way he left. Mai can only watch as her memories of him shatter across the raging sky for a brilliant instant, before flickering away without a trace.
He leaves in flashes.