Elemental Heir | ✔️

Chapter 70

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I am sure I'm a bird.

I'm absolutely certain of this. So why, why, why...
Why can't I fly?

I am a speck in the sky, a tiny mass of bright feathers and song and joy.

I flap my wings with all my might,But I stay in place.

I cannot move forward, or up, or down, or side to side.

I am stuck.I am flying in place.Stuck...In limbo.

I try and I try and I try,

And only when I begin to panic do I realize I AM moving. I'm moving backward. I am being sucked into a vortex that looms behind me, swirling and daunting, and filled with uncertainty. I don't want to be sucked in.

I push my wings as hard as I can, desperate now, desperate to escape this rotating pit that threatens to swallow me whole.

But it's no use.

Back, back, back I go.

Until the mouth of the darkness consumes me.And I'm not a bird anymore.

I'm flying, flailing, careening through the vortex, unsure of which way is up, or down. I don't know where, or who, or even what I am anymore.

And then...

I slide back into the shell from which I came.

Somehow, somewhere, I know that this shell used to be my body. It used to be my temple, my sacred home, my silent companion.

Now...

I slide into it, feeling disgusted as my soul is forced into the confines of this limited prison that I used to find such solace in.

It feels like putting on wet clothes, like pouring ice cold water on my head. It feels wrong and so, so uncomfortable after knowing the pleasure of being free. I hate it. I want to go back...

It hurts here.

It hurts so much.
Why couldn't I just be a bird?

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I gasped, my eyes flying open as I jerked upward and into a sitting position. I blinked the confusion and sleep from of my eyes, the torches in the room too bright, as I glanced around myself.