ruined memories [open]
Aug 28, 2009 16:05:22 GMT -5
Post by cinderella on Aug 28, 2009 16:05:22 GMT -5
Ariel felt strange. Something was amiss here, but she'd yet to figure out what. There was something different about her, but she didn't understand that either. She felt more solid, more there. More real. And right now, the ache in her chest was all too real for her, and not something she'd wanted to happen.
Wherever she was, something had happened. Something terrible, something destructive, and apparently, someone decided she would be just the person to play a cruel joke on. It was her grotto; but not her grotto. Her grotto was underwater, and it had been destroyed by her father over twelve years ago. Well, this was her grotto, or a replica of it, and it had been destroyed again. Debris lay all over the place, and she bent down and picked up part of what could have been the wall of the replica-grotto. This place wasn't part of her world, what it mirrored she hadn't seen in who knew how many years, but still, seeing it destroyed brought back the memory of when the actual grotto was destroyed, and the sense of desolation which had overcome her then was back with a vengeance. This wasn't right, to find this place in ruins.
But hadn't she built a life for herself, after all the tragedy she had gone through? Who was to say she couldn't do the same right now? A spark of hope ignited in her chest; she could rebuild it. She would need help, but she could still rebuild it. Clutching to that thought like a drowning man would clutch at a lifeline, she began to move amongst the wreckage, hoping to chance across someone, anyone who she could tell her idea to; anyone who could help her rebuild her ruined memories.