I Will Find You by Meli Raine

Author:Meli Raine [Raine, Meli]
Language: eng
Format: epub

Chapter Seven

Paigelynn

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The water is a hug that loves me so purely, touching every pore.

I'm floating, weightless, suspended and offered up with my face, smiling at the sky. It's dark, the moon on hiatus, resting somewhere else, taking a break from its steadfast role.

Only stars blink in the inky sky, clustered in groups, as if they're too lonely to live alone. It's cold, but I'm not shivering, my arms outstretched, my legs in a V, hair brushing wet against my shoulders and spidering out behind me.

The saltwater stings my eyes, but I just blink, the pain almost secondary to the joy of knowing how much the moon loves me, even in its absence.

There is a cadence to my breath, a rhythm and flow as air passes through my nose, sounding like the roar of the ocean inside my head, then leaving as I exhale.

All I have to do here is float. All I have to do here is be. All I have to do here is let the water displace from the weight of my simple existence. I am in it, but not of it. My soul could dissolve, and my spirit rises as I breathe in and exhale my hope. And yet I am here, separate from everything else at the same time that I am wholly at one with the universe.

A meteor shoots across the sky, the light like a saber, the sky a shield. Snow begins to fall, each flake clinging to my nose, my cheekbones, my forehead, the flurries becoming a blizzard covering me with a thick white layer designed to bury.

I sit up and thrash in the water, the snow thickening until it is quicksand. Terrified, I swallow hard, until my mouth fills with an acrid, bitter flavor, like blood.

I'm standing, my feet slipping on ice as I rush to reach shore, except there is no end.

"Paige!" A man shouts from everywhere, nowhere, above, below.

Paige? Is that my name? Each step I take toward the voice feels like moving granite, and yet I persist. I have to. It is my destiny.

Shame fills me as each ragged lunge forward takes more effort, more time, just more. A better person would move faster. A more worthy person would be on shore already. A more capable princess would lead the way without struggle.

Soon, I'm frozen in place, the water climbing and freezing with every inch as it covers my calves, then my knees, moving up my thighs and finally, within millimeters of my pelvis, it halts.

Everything is bright light, so blinding I cannot see.

"Paige!" He shouts again. "I will find you… I will find you."

A mist, blood-red and smelling like wet metal, fills the air until I scream…and scream…and scream a word I've never been allowed to say before.

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