Tally stared around the room, panic filling her as she fought to find her voice, "Sarah?" Nothing. She ran to the bathroom, "Sarah!?" Nothing.
But that dread filled her and she sank to the floor, pulling her knees to her chest and crying. She knew it was ridiculous, perhaps Sarah had run out for something but that dream she had shook her to her core. And she couldn't get herself to move to get up to go look for her, the fear was too strong and she found herself beginning to shake and her breathing becoming ragged.
She suddenly felt her body move on it's own, her eyes unblinking like she had zoned out and she had no control over her body. She knew she had grabbed Sarah's coat and put it on, the smell of her filling her senses. She didn't even put any shoes on, she just found herself wandering out of their room and outside.
Where is Sarah? Did she leave me? Was this all my fault? She's gone?
These spiraling thoughts led Tally to walk away from the base towards the woods, nobody even saw her. She just let her feet lead her and they led her she wasn't sure, all she felt was an emptiness and a sorrow.
Sarah was gone. She failed. She was all alone again. She let out a blood curdling scream and a storm erupted around her, lightning struck and all she wanted was to make the world suffer for taking her away from her.
In the distance there was a muffled scream and Tally managed to turn her eyes towards it, she must've been hallucinating because she could've sworn Sarah was right there making her way towards her struggling through the storm she had created.
But she heard her call out to her again, her name not so muffled to her ears causing Tally to blink and come back to herself. A branch blowing through the air and hitting Sarah across the face leaving a cut just like the one Tally had caused her with her scourge.
"Sarah?" Tally realized it really was her Sarah and not a hallucination, "Oh," the storm calmed and she felt herself falling. Having not realized her feet had taken her to the ledge of a waterfall, since when was there a waterfall near Fort Salem?
Sarah ran after her seeing her fall grabbing the girl but realizing they'd both be going over, she pulled her close and turned her back outwards so that she could try and take the brunt of the fall as they went over.
Sarah had felt Tally's panic and had followed it running ahead of the biddies, leaving them behind, the further away they were the less of her damage they could take onto themselves. But Sarah had to get to Tally, she had only stepped out to get her their marriage license in the post, she wasn't sure what had happened to Tally to cause such a reaction in her.
Now here they were falling into the water below, made rapid by Tally's sudden storm and Sarah using her magic to focus on protecting Tally as they hit the water. Despite the impact knocking the air out of Sarah she maintained her magic hold on Tally who had fallen unconscious.
She wasn't sure how far the water had carried them by the time she had managed to get herself able to try and turn the water with her magic to shift them to the shore. Hitting a protruding rock slicing her side as she did so but getting them to the shore.
Sarah's magic having kept Tally dry and safe through the whole ordeal but leaving Sarah wet and injured, she picked Tally up and carried her far from the rivers edge, collapsing next to the girl and passing out beside her.
When Tally woke her head hurt and she winced as she grabbed her head suddenly realizing she wasn't in Sarah's bed. She looked around to see they were near a river and to her left there was Sarah wet and unconscious, she lunged for her in a panic shaking her.
"Sarah! Oh, my goddess, what happened?" Tally tried to search for some semblance of knowing where they were but nothing looked familiar.
She felt for a pulse and found it weak but still there, suddenly realizing there was blood on her hands she panicked trying to find the source of it, "Why aren't you healing? Sarah, what do I do?"
Tally was no fixer but she tried anyways only managing to stop the blood a little. She had no idea why she was dry and Sarah was all wet. She stood and tried to drag Sarah to her feet, taking her weight onto herself. Managing to get her near one of the trees she laid her down as gently as she could.
Having no idea where they were or what to do she decided making a fire was the best course of action until she could figure something out. A fire she could do, running to gather wood as quickly as possible she managed to get a fire started. It already seemed like the sun was setting yet she last remembered it being morning. How long had they been out? And why had nobody come?
Despite the state she had been in she was lucky to have taken Sarah's coat because it was getting cold. She managed to sing a seed to dry Sarah's clothes but the wound was still there. She sang another seed sending a pulsing light into the sky in hopes it could lead somebody to their location.
She laid Sarah's coat over her and sat so she could rest Sarah's head in her lap, smoothing away the hair from her forehead. She tried to mimic the song Sarah's mother sang for her, the one Sarah had sung on the plane to the young Tarim boy. She wasn't sure how close she could get it but it seemed to ease the tension in Sarah's furrowed brow.
Tally just sat and waited for either Sarah to wake up or for a search party to arrive. She hadn't realized that perhaps another enemy might be lurking nearby.
