Literature
reaching the summit, ch. 1+2
The pain was blinding. The numbness afforded her from the night spent with nothing but her thoughts had been replaced by adrenaline sharpening her senses to every single cut, scrape and broken bone she'd gotten from her impromptu flight into the ditch by the side of the road. This wasn't what she'd had in mind when she'd left the house to clear her head.
Trying to ignore the yells of pain from her body, she slowly opened her eyes, only to see the same level of darkness she'd seen with them shut. A few blinks later, and a large tree to her right slowly came into focus, followed by another. She looked as far right as she could without moving h