Brown 3: Concrete

[bookblather]

Author: Kat
Title: Concrete
Story: Shine Like It Does
Colors: Brown 3 (brown out)
Supplies and Materials: Miniature, reimaging (part 23 of In a Den of Thieves), feathers (this picture), chalk (this picture), modeling clay (flash), pastels (wound(s)).
Word Count: 100
Rating: PG-13.
Summary: It was funny, the things you looked at but didn't really see.
Warnings: aftereffects of violence
Notes: Written in writing chat.


It was funny, the things you looked at but didn't really see.

The sidewalk, for instance. Grey pavement burned white by the noon sun, vast slabs speckled with unidentifiable dark spots and cigarette butts. Miranda walked over this sidewalk several times a day, over this very spot, and she had never seen it.

And now her blood spilled out on the sidewalk, dying that grey-white pavement a dark red. Now she lay with her cheek pressed against the rough concrete, and all she could see was the white-hot glare.

The things you see when you're dying.

She closed her eyes.

Comments

[isana]

Chilling from beginning to end, especially with how detached Miranda is from her trauma. Good job!

[bookblather]

Miranda is detached from a lot of things, actually, except her brother and sister. And she... sort of saw this coming.

Thank you.

[leia_solo]

I agree with isana. This is very chilling and the way she seems detached from it makes it seem...idk the right words to say. Ah maybe removed from it?

[bookblather]

Possibly? She sort of saw this coming, so she's at least accepted the possibility, and she knows her siblings are going to be okay. Otherwise there would be a lot more kicking and screaming.

Thank you.

[shipwreck_light]

I especially like the end of this. As if Miranda's vaguely annoyed to have been touched by the whole situation. Even though she's /dying/.

She's also totally Miranda.

[bookblather]

She is vaguely annoyed. She likes being detached, especially at this stage of her life-- it hurts less.

Thank you!