Short one!
Okay, I'll do homework (after I watch Free! that is...hehe)
disclaimer: I don't own Snk but HEY THE CHAPTER'S COMING SOON
Three Warriors
xxx. fear .xxx
There is nothing quite like the sensation of falling.
At first, it's light, a trickling thrum on your heart and your stomach and the ends of your fingertips like a hummingbird made of air is carrying each and every part of you upwards, its wings beating unimaginably fast.
But then the world is a rock, and you are the lead that is destined to be at the earth's core.
Usually, she feels neither. The steady tension along her 3D Maneuver Gear is perfectly distributed, and a slight shift of her body initiates a twist or a turn as she descends; she is fearless.
"Fall, Annie."
The sharp pang of an unrecognizable emotion slices through her core like the iridescent glow of an unnaturally bright butterfly sparkling in a dull setting. It is only when she feels her father gripping her shoulders and begging her to come home someday that Annie realizes she feels fear.
And she is terrified.
It's an endless dream, full of muffled voices and soft pitter-patters. The soft ping of water dripping echoes softly, and the faces become rippled patterns in the surface. She feels rage and anger and sadness wafting towards her, but they are thud drearily into a cold wall, and there is nothing but emptiness inside her.
Somewhere far, far away, Annie knows that someone remembers who she is.
/chapter
I like writing in the present tense. It's a nice experimental style for me. :D