I woke up lying face down in a dirty coloured field covered in splintered wood and smashed cars around with broken siding from house. My left hand extended above my head and my right down by my side, my hair trailed over my left shoulder and was sprawled out across the dirty grass. Blinking fast, I brought myself back into the light. I did not know where I was or what happened to get me there. All I could remember was loud noises, screaming, and cracking; then I was here in this field struggling to comprehend what happened to me.
I tried to lift my top half off the ground but could not move. I realised that there was heavy debris piled on my back so I pushed it off with a lot of force, seeing as I was injured enough not to be able to move under the strain and pain I was in. I shifted the heavy debris off me eventually (after many attempts). I was still feeling as though something was on my back, but even when I was stood up I could not tell what it was. As I lifted myself up off the ground I looked around at the field I was in, rubbing my neck as it was sore and stinging, from what I don't know. I still could not tell where I was, but I saw the debris scattered over the field and all around. I saw trees toppled over around the field and others in the field next to the field I was in.
I stumbled over to the hedge-line separating the field I was in to the one next to this field across the debris from where I had previously lay in the grass; I found a gate in the hedges and went over to it. The faces that were looking my way and those people that were helping others get free from the debris all stopped and looked directly at me in shock, awe and confusion. I heard someone whisper to the person they're helping "Don't worry, God has blessed us with an Angel sent from heaven, we're all going to be alright" I looked back at them all staring at me and got confused. I rubbed my neck again because it was still stinging.
I stumbled back across the field out on to the road that was next to the field that I had been disposed into. As I exited the field I looked up and down the road. Telegraph poles had been knocked over, cars were in the ditches and stranded across the road. There were no people in the road, and there was nothing left of the houses that should have stood on the vacant foundations that were left behind. I could see what looked like a faint village outlined in the distance flattened and torn apart. There was one building left standing, but I could not make out what was written on the side of the mountain.
I was completely lost in this area. I did not recognise anything, there was nothing left of what was potentially meant to be here. I could imagine the activity and life that could have thrived here and then looked around with these images and the place lit up. I walked down the road away from the field I came out of. "HELP" I could hear a voice shouting, getting louder as I got closer. "HELP! SOMEBODY!" All of a sudden a woman with short blond hair bobbing around her face as she ran out between two discarded cars chucked onto the road like cardboard. "Oh my"" she gasped as they saw me "…an Angel" she stuttered.
"I'm not an Angel, sorry, I'm Skye"
"Oh my" she gasped again "such an Angelic name, Becky, come here, look! I'll go to Bella" The first woman went back behind the car that she came out of, and I heard I whispering to the girl on the floor that everything's okay, the Angel Skye has come to bless us. I saw a short blond haired girl come out from behind the car covered in blood, her hair matted with crimson blood from the girl behind the car. She stopped in her tracks when she saw me standing by the car, she gasped loudly and said in awe
"You're beautiful" I blushed and said;
"I'm Skye, from DoSC, what can I do to help your sister?"
"She was hurt by the falling car, please bless her, so she'll be alright."
"Let me see" I said as I walked around the car slowly with both women watching me with intent. I moved over to the girl between the cars and something bumped the car and knocked me back a little. But there was nothing there, so I knelt down by the girl and began issuing orders to the two women. I told them to get some water to clean the wounds the girl had gained and to find some cloth to clean up the blood.
I went through my ABCD's when the woman had gone to do the tasks I set them. I checked the girl's airways, and they appeared clear and she was breathing, but barely, she seemed close to collapsing. I checked her circulation and that was still moving, and she didn't seem to have any disabilities, she was just weak from the incident.
The two women got back to the girl on the floor and gave me a bucket of water and cloths. I used the cloths to mod up the bleeding on the girl's body and I cleaned the wounds with the ice cold water. As I did this the girl stopped breathing and her circulation slowed down and died away. I instructed Becky, the second woman to come out from behind the car to hold the cloth tight to the wound while I performed CPR on the girl. The girl came to and she looked up at me and fainted.
The first woman looked at me in shock and horror, because she thought that her daughter had died again. "Don't worry" I said, "she's only fainted"
"Good, good. Thank you"
"You're welcome ma'am"
"No, no, I really mean it, thank you so much" she went to grab my hand to shake it to thank me, but she stopped and went to take her hand back but I took hers and shook it softly, smiling and nodding to her to assure her that it was okay.
"She'll be okay now, keep pressure on the wound and call a doctor if you can so that they can get it stitched for her."
"Thank you again"
"It's not a problem" I said as I began to walk away. I stopped and turned around and looked back to the woman and said "you wouldn't happen to know what happened here. I don't know where I am, or what happened.
"I don't know where we are, but there was a huge tornado that tore through everything and disposed of us here."
"Okay thanks" I said and continued walking.
"Skye" she said after me. I turned around to look at her "You really are an Angel, but not necessarily in disguise, you don't seem to know that. Look in the mirror and you'll see" I looked at her puzzled and replied
"Okay, will do ma'am" I walked over to the nearest abandoned vehicle and looked into its left-hand-side mirror and stopped completely frozen to the spot, in shock of what I could see behind me.
I saw huge white Angel wings protruding out from my back arching outwards. I looked in awe at these beautifully woven wings that I was wearing. I then got confused by how the got there. I'd never had wings before the tornado and this was not what I'd expected to see afterwards either. My neck was still stinging so I rubbed it again to make the feeling go away. This time I felt a scratch mark on my neck and picked up a broken mirror on the floor by the car and held it up in front of me turning to face away from the cars mirror so I could see where the scratch was. I was shocked to see perfectly drawn Angel wings, which were just a black outline tattoo on the back of my neck.
The tattoo looked like a pair of black outlined Angel wings. That curved to form an almost heart-like shape. The clear-cut pattern drawn on my neck was so simple and a mark to show what I was. Once I calmed down and was acclimatised to my new pair of wings they began to shrink. They then disappeared under my white vest-top and under my skin. I looked back at the mirror on the car and saw the familiar face and body that I was used to. I looked away and back to the mirror again to make sure that these wings had hidden.
The mark on my neck did not disappear with the wings. I knew it was here to stay and there was nothing I could do to get rid of it. The only thing on my mind is whether Jesse is okay, and where he is. What would he think about this? Is it a curse or blessing? What would this mean for he and I? Will we make it through this? Would he be the same as everyone I've seen already? Would he just stare? I do know one thing though.
I have to get back
