
Mercedes slowly rose to her feet, swallowing back a mouthfull of blood. "Ugh..." she groaned, blinking the fuzziness out of her vision and looking round, trying to balance herself on the tipping earth. "Is anybody..." she stumbled over a rock but managed to catch herself from hitting the ground again. She'd never been drunk or even drank before, but she had a good feeling this is what it felt like.

The next five minutes went by quite fuzzy. As the small seventeen year-old stumbled towards the clouding smoke, she found a restless body among the weeded fern. She stopped in her tracks, both hands covering her mouth, but the scream still escaped her bleeding lips. "MUM!" Pip scrambled down to her knees and fell her mother's pulse, bloodied tears beading up in the corners of her eyes, "Mum! Mum, are you okay? Wake up! Wake up, Mum!" No pulse. No breathing. Nothing. Mum was...gone. Pip crumpled beside her mother, swallowing back a mortified sob and began to shudder violently.

Try waking up on a remote beach after being stuck on a plane for three hours. Now picture it on flames with what’s left of that plane, and add a few dead bodies and screaming passengers. Still enjoying the view? He didn’t think so. After waking up to a humming plane engine ready to blow and pitiful screaming, Daxius was very aware of what had gone on. Or, at least, he had an idea. For thirty minutes now he’d been trying to tell himself he was dreaming or in a coma, but that didn’t make him feel much better and it wasn’t moving him or the frightened passengers away from the dangerous engine. Dax had gone camping before, but never really a plane crash expedition on a beach. What could he possibly do?


pud / demigirl / pan

