directions to heaven

Ever Mayawyn · 05-02-2011, 08:21 PM

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The rain hadn’t stopped all day, or the day before that. It was like the air was holding onto the last bit of winter and taking the rocky route into spring. Flowers were pushing their pastel faces through the soil and beginning to unfold. Pink and yellow buds had sprouted along the length of the grass before it crumbled to sand. Red and dark blue blossoms had spiked up on the other side of the bungalow and were already wilting over from the sudden express of water. Not to mention the unexpected cold that fed from the wetness.

Ever blew gently into the messily stacked pile of wood. She was mocked by only a few grains of sand moving beside her. An awkward sigh escaped her light colored lips when she straightened, kneeling in the damp sand. Her hands went to the packet of matches and then to an individual one, fingering it unskillfully and scraping it against the dry wood with the same absent grace. Into the pile of twigs another match went, bubbling tendrils of smoke into the air. She heaved a silent breath into the area again and was rewarding by a hot breeze and a tiny flame.

This was not her second attempt. She had gone through half the packet of matches, generously acquired by a young female smoker, and left into the woods to gather fuel three times. Ever had never built a fire but she had seen enough that she could only assume how one was constructed. It became more difficult when the wind set in with the growing evening. The sky was bleeding an orange, although the sun had not yet passed the horizon.

The girl nurtured the small red flicker, shielding it from the wind with her dark hands and lovingly adjusting the wood so it would catch fire. Already it was putting out heat, enough for the hybrid to feel her fur warming on her fingers. She sat back in triumphant before watching the gleam grow slightly stronger. Using common sense, Ever supposed she would need more wood. Looking up at the sky and admiring the lack of gray clouds, the silver girl slipped behind her and her mate’s beach shack and into the forest.

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