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“Now get the fuck out of my face.”
Drift puts both her hands on AJ’s shoulders. For a second the moment could’ve been mistaken as intimacy. Almost like Drift was going to pull her in closer.
Instead she got caught off guard and received a shove and AJ stumbled back a step or two.
“You gonna push me off the mountain?”
She regained her footing, looking up at Drift with a smirk.
“Yea. I-“
AJ interrupts.
“You’ve seen it happen to me before you’re gonna do it again?”
The memory of Scott pushing her off the academy cliff plays in her mind. She knows Drift was there and so was Meggi. Or was it Shelby? Was there someone else?
“Yes if you don’t leave right now.”
Now this is AJ’s specialty. She can push Drift’s buttons until she gets violent. She can push anyone’s buttons until they get violent.
“Do it.”
All for the rush.
Drift punches her down another couple blocks.
“C’mon Open Book.”
Well, AJ does deserve it anyway.
Another shove.
“One more time.”
It doesn’t matter if she’s dead.
Drift shoves her so hard and AJ falls so far and hits the ground with a sickening thud.
The world goes silent. Death reaches for you.
Something ancient hears your souls fading.
Purple fire coils around your body, refusing to let death take you.
A dragon’s roar splits the silence. Your dragon has found you.
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AJ opens her eyes. Everything is bright. She gets a feeling that makes her sick to her stomach. Or maybe it’s just the hunger.
She feels vulnerable. She feels like she could be knocked over by a breeze.
Why is she standing up? Since when has she been standing?
Well her body apparently was wondering the same thing because the next second, her legs gave out and AJ goes crashing to the floor.
She hates when she can’t move. She can’t run right now, even if she wants to.
Even when she wants to.
Even though she wants to.
She slumps in a corner of her room.
Just take some deep breaths.
Everything’s fine.
Flick flaps from her perch on the bar table to the floor and nudges her softy.
Everything hurts. Her head hurts, her legs hurt, her arms hurt. Her insides feel like they’re curling in on themselves.
God why does this hurt so much? It didn’t hurt this bad the last time. Then again, her pain wasn’t as bad then.
Flick reappears in front of her. When did she even disappear? She has the magical lavender in her beak and drops it in front of her and flies back upstairs. AJ picks up the lavender as Flick reappears with a lighter.
“Thanks Flick.”
After a couple failed attempts she manages to control the tremors in her hands enough to work the lighter.
AJ stares at the ceiling as the smoke drifts up and her pain relaxes slightly. She just needs to sit for a bit.
The decay mage had been strong all her life. But she couldn’t even move right now.
She just needs to sit for a bit.
Drift POV
aimsey was doomed to fall by infinitedrift
“W-what?”
She’s sprinting down the mountain, taking small bits of fall damage. It’s so dark. Where did she fall? How did Drift not see the edge?
“AJ?”
No response.
“AJ! This isn’t funny!”
She’s not here.
And Drift is running. She’s running. She’s running to the academy. She’s running to AJ’s dorm.
As much as it pains her to admit it, she needs to make sure she’s ok.
What did she do? She didn’t think it was that far, and didn’t think she was on such low health.
She just needs to make sure she’s ok.
She’s running through the front doors, turning left to avoid the group of people in the main hall. She hears her name being called but ignores it. She’s dashes up the stairs and runs almost directly into Osteon.
But almost we’re talking if Osteon didn’t throw himself back, they would’ve collided.
“Drift.”
“Osteon it’s AJ. She’s hurt I think and she fell off a cliff and I didn’t mean it and I don’t know what happened! Please you have to help!” Drift tries to run past her but Osteon stops her.
“Drift slow down. You are in no state to help right now.”
“NO! No I did this I need to help her!”
She tries to push past Osteon but they grab her arm and hold her back. Tears are blurring her vision.
Her body hurts. She just wants to see if she’s ok.
“No! Osteon let me go! She’s DEAD! She’s died and I need to make sure she’s ok! LET ME GO!”
Drift gets pulled out of her hysteria to register what’s happening.
She steps back and Osteon removes his hand from her arm.
He…he grabbed her.
His eyes flicker to the floor, and Drift stands there horrified at the pain grazing over her eyes for the second she can see them.
“Osteon I-“
“Drift. Go into my office. The door is already open. I’m going to go check on her just… wait there. ”
With that Osteon turns and runs towards Lupi dorm.
Drift stands there thunderstruck.
She hurt him. She hurt her. She caused them both so much pain.
Fuck.
Drift makes her way into the office and starts pacing.
Please be ok
Please be ok
Please be ok