Affliction by Amy Miles

Author:Amy Miles [Miles, Amy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Permuted
Published: 2016-09-18T16:00:00+00:00

THIRTEEN

Colors swirl like little rainbow tornadoes before my eyes as I blink and try to focus on them. Each one falls at different rates, some are fast while others lazily tumble toward the blanket that covers me as I lie on something soft. I flex my fingers against the soft material and feel the odd prick of feather shafts.

The air is hot and still despite the window to my right being open. I stare through the screenless space and watch a bee flit around the edge of a flower and realize that it is moving in slow motion. I can see each of its wings as it hovers in place.

That is really trippy.

As my gaze shifts away, I stare at the rounded wooden log wall in front of me and realize that I can see every individual grain knit so tightly together that it begins to blur. A loud sound from behind me applies a steady and rhythmic pressure on my eardrums, its beat so constant that it becomes nearly maddening as I look away from the wall to search for the source.

“Hey,” a voice whispers beside me. I turn my head to see that Nox is sitting in one of the rocking chairs from the back porch next to the bed. The tips of his dark hair look like bursts of white light where the sunlight filters in through the window over his shoulder. “How are you feeling?”

I rub my forehead, taking special care to run my fingers along the bridge of my nose before I open my eyes again. Everything is the same and yet so very different. I know that I am in Flannery’s house by the wooden walls and crocheted blanket, but it feels different. Almost as if the air is charged with a sort of kinetic energy that wasn’t there before.

“Did you give me something for the pain?”

Nox frowns and leans in closer. When he does, I realize that the thrumming beat in my ear gets louder. I am hearing his heartbeat but it sounds like a bass drum now.

“Other than some water when you woke up earlier you haven’t had anything. Why?”

“You are kinda glowing.”

“Come again.”

Pushing against the mattress, I ease myself into a sitting position. “Something is different. The sunlight is way more intense than it was before and I think I’m seeing things. Things that I shouldn’t even care to notice, but it’s right there front and center and I can’t stop seeing it.”

“It’s going to be okay.” He places a soothing hand over mine.

Another sparkle of color falls in front of his eyes and as I zero in on it I realize that what I am really seeing are tiny particles of dust on the air that catch in the light.

“Is it?” I blink rapidly as I struggle to focus. “I just watched a speck of dust land on your nose. Tell me how that is okay!”

Nox takes hold of my hand and waits for me to look at him again.

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