- Drabble Collection: The Icarus Factor -

XXIX.

Interrupted

Just as she is beginning to give in to him, just as she is beginning to contemplate the future in her present -

Just as he is beginning to hope that somehow, without even trying, he has changed time -

The passage to the past opens, in a moment of despair.

He watches her, this time – watches her flinger herself into the past with a deep breath, watches the glow of an unnatural light take hold of her and sweep her away as she digs at the unyielding earth with dull, breaking fingernails.

I knew better – I knew it was not over yet.

He sweeps away from the well house and once more begins to wait.