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Plaxica 85/85
Five minutes passed without Plaxica or Ramella saying a single word. They did not need words. Words would have only shattered the fragile moment they now shared. It was when they had kissed for the first time. Neither of them had dared to break the silence then, for fear that what they had just gone through was unreal, and speaking would shatter the illusion.
"I found a lizard and three beetles!"
Daniel's shout from just a few feet away shattered the moment, and Plaxica and Ramella both turned to face him. He lifted his left hand from over the right, and the lizard immediately tried scurrying off to safety. It jumped from Daniel's hands and raced towards the safety of a crack in the rocks a couple of feet away.
Daniel rushed after it, forgetting about the beetles, which falling from his hands opened their wings and in a dazzling display of light reflecting off their shiny carapace, flew away to their freedom. The lizard made it inside the crack just as Daniel got there.
"Did you see how big it was?" - Daniel asked, strangely not annoyed at his prey having escaped him. Ramella nodded.
"I'll try and find a bigger one!" - Daniel shouted and ran off again. He was clearly thoroughly enjoying himself.
Now I gotta go, now I'll take my control,
and choose only one heart of mine
My eyes only see one world - let it be,
and when I'll look back, I will be blind
I'll lose one part of me, sinking deep in the sea,
and erase the half of my brain
Oh, gods, give me the will, or assign me to kill,
'cause I know that I will go insane
The song! Again that same song! Was Plaxica trying to influence himself, or was this the spirit's work? How strange that the words apply so well to his current situation. How strangely convenient even.
Plaxica realised that he would have to make his choice between the two worlds. It was not an easy choice. He barely took notice of the world around him as he sat there, alone in a world of his own creation. No! That was not a path he dared tread! Who knew what would happen once he descended down that shadowy road and entered the realm of insanity! He could not take that path! He could not! Only one choice remained.
I'm looking for coincidence before it gets too late
I've been in this rut for so long I'm starting to stagnate
I need to find a way out soon I really have to try
Is it possible to be alive not noticing you've died?
A different song this time. A different part of his past. Plaxica could not decide whether this was a good or bad omen. But again, the words struck a cord within him and he felt as if they had been written about him.
"I have made my choice." - he announced to Ramella. Yes, it is the only possible way. If I fail, he will have to kill me.
"Yes?" - Ramella asked, a gleam of hope in her eyes. Event hough she could not be sure, she suspected what thoughts Plaxica was going through. She knew that whatever his choice were to be she would support him, as long as it did not involve him dying. She did not know what she would do, if the Plaxica she had only recently found were to disappear from her life permanently.
"I shall continue to try and find this Windbringer. If he knows of no way to cure me of this affliction, well...then we shall see."
He does not want to tell me what would happen then. - Ramella thought, but she knew that Plaxica had taken the choice, which gave him the most chance. She hoped that that chance would be turned into something positive.
It took them fifteen minutes to find Daniel, who was still busily chasing lizards. Plaxica helped him catch one, and then they set off again, moving ever up the mountains.
OOC: songs in this post are: first one is again from Between two worlds by Stonehenge, while the second one is from Choices by an English banned called Threshold.
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