In the Darkness
All the air left her lungs and for a fraction of a second, whatever light managed to follow her down the rabbit hole she'd fallen into seemed to vanish. It was silent down there before her body, face first, hit the ground and then it was a cracking of bones and a whimpered yelp of pain but again, only for a second. The ground under her was cold and wet and it smelled like the grass after hours of rain— worms and dirt. There were pieces of tree from the world above and leaves, rocks, and stones that had tumbled through the hole before her and with her but mostly there was just darkness. She didn't move, both because she didn't want to and at the moment she really couldn't. Her lungs needed air but every deep breath was a knife to the ribs that shook her to her very core. You need to get up. The tiniest of voices in her head broke through the silence that had been swallowing her up. You need to get up. You need to get up...you need to. All so much easier said than done, wasn't it? Minutes felt like hours, laying there just trying to get the air back inside of her before she dared to try and move but eventually she could breath. Just a little bit. Slowly, almost so slowly you might not have known she was moving at all, she twisted herself around and lay flat on her back with her eyes on the hole above. The fall must have been a good ten feet but she couldn't really tell, everything just seemed to get lost between the hole's mouth and the darkness that engulfed everything up once the light fell through. However many feet was, she could feel the ache of all of them in every inch of her body, every stab of pain when she took in a careful breath. Fuck.
