[May 16 2013][Yu Gi Oh 5D] The Ground-Dweller

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Title: The Ground-Dweller
Fandom: Yu Gi Oh 5D
Summary: From the ground, she could see what she couldn't from the sky that had dropped her and then abandoned her.
Prompt: May 16, “wings won't take me.”
Characters (main): Misty Tredwell
Pairings: none
Genres: poetry
Rating: T
Disclaimer: I don't own Yu Gi Oh 5D or any of the characters depicted within this fic unless stated otherwise. I own the plot except where it
is canonical - to make it simple, I own everything you don't recognise.
Word Count: 188

The Ground-Dweller

Black ice.
That’s what it was.
Unseen, unmediated,
unthought

For she had never meant to die.

Not crushed under that weight,
the hood upon her
and locket tight around her throat.

Tight
Reminder

That she still had something to do

But there was no light,
just flashes of colour
passing her by:
grey and black.

No angel came to give her a second chance.
No black crow came to pick out her soul
screaming from her body

Or maybe she wouldn’t have screamed.

She had no way of finding him
and she had lost her wings long ago,
hoisting her feet along the ground

Hopeless. It was hopeless.

And then footsteps, dragging,
came over the squeaking wheels
and she opened her eyes to the shadow that lurked beneath:

A ground dweller like her
who offered what the wings of innocence nor death could not.

And she stood up,
both feet on the ground
and let the wind pass by.

She could find him without hope.
All she needed was the trail.

As close to the ground as possible,
she could see what the sky could not.