Post by Jaminx on May 14, 2017 20:58:47 GMT
Falling for beginners
Now Kay had done many calculatedly stupid things in their fifteen years of life. Jumping off a bridge onto an icy sea while a fire fight rained ahead was rapidly becoming the most fatalistic move they had ever made.In the split second, they jumped millions of calculations ran off flashing a million more warning lights that screamed for Kay to take action.
One action imagined Kay stretching and hooking their arms into the bridge to claw back into the fray others tried to work out whether they could impact safely onto the ice. The answer to the impact was negative. If they hit and survived there was a chance the missing part would send off a trigger function for either a gradual or immediate shut down. They pictured swinging to the cliff beside them even at this distance, of spreading their body mass. In the remotest possibilities, they even dreamed someone would try to help them but those possibilities were slim even by their own standards.
What all the plans agreed was that Kay was not going to die here if they could help it.
Time still moved as they thought and as a second ticked by many options disappeared. Blinking back at the world Kay came to a decision their body contorting and spreading into a thinner shape with wings reaching out behind them.
Kay was still falling in a corkscrew as their half-formed wings only slowed their descent but did not stall it completely. If they could have breathed right then they would have taken more than a few steadying breaths. Instead they thought about the men above who had used them for their own plans, of the one friend that had known what they were and had hated them for it in the end. Then like the droplets that hit them it all drained away.
As with a very final crunch they collapsed onto the ice wings folding in and retracting into their deathly still body with eyes fixed upwards. The sky dropping flakes down upon them. It was almost beautiful in its own lonely way until Kay shot bolt upright. Pain shot through them tearing at their sensors as all they could do was silently scream.