“Can you believe this weather? The sun is …” she stopped cold, her jaw frozen in mid-sentence. Her heart thundered, threatening to escape the confines of her chest.
“Mauve?”
Eric’s voice sounded as if filtered through molasses. Someplace in her stunned mind she noted to herself that she finally understood why cartoonists slurred speech and movement into agonizing slow-motion during moments of high-drama. It was as if the world itself spun differently. Time simultaneously lingered and lost all definition.
Her finger labored against a suddenly-too-heavy gravity. She pointed at the gravestone.
“The swirls,” she managed, her tongue was a parched brick in a desert.
She forced herself to breathe and swallow. Paradoxically the motion released some moisture back into her arid mouth.
“It is the mark of my ancestors,” she whispered. “A sacred, secret, rarely-used Sentry Sign. I’d only seen it once. I didn’t even know they’d been to this land.”
For Crispina’s Crimson’s Creative Challenge
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Adele Ryan McDowell,
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Thank you! I think your soul may know some of that ancestry … ๐
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Hey, that brought shivers. Nice one. ๐
And the cartoonists are quite right, it’s happened to me. And in that moment a totally different person took control of my mouth and left me merely to witness
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Thanks, Crispina!
As for the cartoon ‘smear-motion’ … I know it well … and … I’ve had the latter sensation of being ‘taken over’ … as well … We’re fascinating beings, we are, aren’t we? ๐
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Indeed… though not according to the scientists
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Science does not explain everything (yet … ๐ ).
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Yea, don’t forget the yet.
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Fantastic description of the sensation of those moments!
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Thank you! ๐ I think we’ve all felt them, in one or other variation … or the cartoonists would not be successful in conveying the moments as they intend to … ๐
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