Hat-tori
Supernova
- Joined
- Jan 9, 2009
The grey halls were a panic. The normally quiet, monotonous life that had been made there was ruined by the quake that tore through it. A rush of flesh, screams and cries, carried the young woman through the halls. A rushed panic - all that important propriety tossed aside. And into a tube she went, into an endless-seeming grey sleep. Beeping and soft hissing pushed her, pulled her to sleep. It was the sleep of cold, an endless slumber, and yet, it seemed as soon as her eyes closed...
She was woken up. But the eternity weighed on her, heavy and strong, powerfully rigid. Like wearing a heavy, ill-fitting suit of plates that pushed down on her. It was hard to open eyes, to move. But ears worked just fine. So weak... The thing opened slowly, hissing as her body thawed.
The world around her was broken. Skeletons littered the floor, the pods. People she'd seen mere moments ago - but that was all nothing compared to the sky. The ceiling was broken open, a huge rend in what was once her grey sky, revealing solid blue an infinity away. There was a way up, it seemed, a path of stone and sand...
She was woken up. But the eternity weighed on her, heavy and strong, powerfully rigid. Like wearing a heavy, ill-fitting suit of plates that pushed down on her. It was hard to open eyes, to move. But ears worked just fine. So weak... The thing opened slowly, hissing as her body thawed.
The world around her was broken. Skeletons littered the floor, the pods. People she'd seen mere moments ago - but that was all nothing compared to the sky. The ceiling was broken open, a huge rend in what was once her grey sky, revealing solid blue an infinity away. There was a way up, it seemed, a path of stone and sand...