A Little Something Original

Thought I'd just share this with folks, as the writing progresses, not fan fic, but all my own madness :D



This from Chapter 1:

Her lungs ached for lack of breath as the last few precious drops of air escaped from her nostrils. The many points of light from the glowing rocks blurred together into a single blue brightness.

…find the sh-tho you need…

Her mother’s words echoed into the empty calm the waters had given her. Light headed, dreaming a peace she did not truly feel she closed her eyes. A face swam into view… a strange but invitingly beautiful image. Nothing about the face was at all what she had expected to see. Not the full, long rounded face, not the strange, light-coloured skin, nor the eyes devoid of their outermost light mauve band of pigment. The eyes that looked upon her were a deep, rich brown. The full lips relaxed into an almost gentle smile, rosy against the olive tan that was as different from her own hazy, wine tanned skin as a drop of water from the sandy ground.

( are you him? )