He stirs to life with a fluttering of his eyelids, at first he looks upon her with joy but the look quickly fades. Her heart lurches, she has never been mistaken for another before. Caly swallows hard as anxiety begins to rise up and clench at her chest, threatening to steal her very breath away. "I...I...ts okay," she stammers, her words escaping from her as if she has forgotten how to use them. "I didn't mean to bother you," she says just above a whisper. Her head still reels from everything she has learned over the past few days, confusion still clouds her mind.
She meets his gaze as he brings himself to look at her. Are you okay? his question fills the still air and just hangs between them. Is she okay? She clinches her jaws together and bites her lower lip in a desperate attempt to avoid bursting into tears. She can feel all the emotions of the last few days boiling beneath the surface, threatening to come rushing out of her.
"I think so," she says, in an attempt to avoid his question. She nods her head as he says he'd been better. How she couldn't agree more... "Me too," she says in return. "I had thought everything was perfect, until a few days ago," she says with a half hearted smile. She had thought it was perfect, ending back in Paradise, being there with Roug, and even meeting some friends. Yet, everything changes, especially finding out what Roug has done... and that her mother was not here and had not been for years. The anxiety clenches at her again, her heart thuds wildly in her chest, threatening to jump into her throat.
Her breathing becomes laborious, her nostrils flare desperately sucking air into her lungs. In that moment her knees buckle beneath her weight, throwing her face first into the cold pool at her hooves. She doesn't thrash around, she just lays herself into the waters, letting the waters numb her body. She hopes it will take these feelings away, wash them into the bubbling stream and out to the sea.
Calypso
THE STARRy EYED DREAMER OF PARADISE