Chapter IV:
What? No Pearly Gates? ~Kaye
Kaye's eyes flew
open to stare at the darkened ceiling for the third night in a row. The clock
beside her bed read
She stood up, and made her way to the window, looking out over the cityscape stretching to the darkened horizon. If I don't start getting more sleep at night, I'm going to fail all my classes. And if that happens I'll never get into a good college, and there goes my idea of a seven-figure income before I'm thirty. Kaye sighed and shook her head. "Maybe a little fresh air'll help."
She quickly changed into a pair of jeans, and a shirt that were thrown haphazardly on the floor. Then pushed the window open and stepped up onto the windowsill and climbed out onto the fire escape.
The Arcanian set her hands on the railing. The color around her faded away as she shifted into Grey. A pair of demon wings exploded out of her back, and she jumped over the railing, into the night air. In seconds she was soaring above the highest buildings.
It has been a while since I've been out for fun. School just takes too much time.
She flew straight up the side of one of the buildings.
"I am Batman!" she cried, spreading out her wings as she faced the moon, glowing with a soft white light. She laughed, and landed lightly on the top of the building's point. "And now I'm King Kong."
Just wish I didn't have to stay in Grey. Everything looks so much better in color, even if it is night time.
Kaye glanced towards the horizon, where it was beginning to glow with the coming of morning. "Still have a little time," she said, jumping outwards from the side of the building.
She folded her wings behind her back as she rushed downwards, picking up speed as she went. She snapped her wings open at the last second, and they caught the air, sending her speeding along the roofs of the buildings below her.
"Whoooooo!" she laughed as she sped through the air.
That was just a
split second before she hit a wall. At least it felt like a wall to Kaye, and
she was sure she was feeling every bone in her shattering at once, before she
passed out.
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Kaye opened her eyes, expecting to see either a pearly gate, or the stark white ceiling of a hospital. She was a little surprised to see neither. What she did see were white clouds drifting lazily through a bright blue sky.
Maybe I was flying so fast I went straight through the pearly gates, and into heaven, she thought to herself.
Kaye wiggled her fingers, and then her toes, testing every part of her body before she finally sat up.
Well this doesn't look like heaven. She was looking out over a vast amount of sand. I always imagined more a Garden of Eden kind of motif.
Kaye pushed herself to her feet, glad to find that no part of her body was even in the least bit sore. Her wings had retracted themselves when she'd lost consciousness.
"Hello?" she called out. "Is anyone else there?"
There was no reply. Maybe this is limbo.
She searched the horizon, feeling the sun beat down on her from above. The air was dry and Kaye licked her lips.
She turned, and raised an eyebrow. Or another dream?
Not more than five feet behind her, the sand ended abruptly, and there was a solid sheet of ice. A small number of snowflakes drifted down from the sky over the ice, but the ones that looked like they would float out over the sand, simply disappeared. Kaye pinched herself hard, but it did no more then create a red mark on her arm.
"So I'm not
dreaming…"