“And like the sea… I am constantly changing from calm to hell”
xxxxxxxxxxx | Female | I-Rex handler | mood: tormented, upset.
- xxxI should have known the low was coming. I was exhibiting all my usual symptoms and I should have been able to pick up on it. The new medication was not kicking in as it was supposed to which was normal whenever I got it switched which was rare. This time it was taking longer than usual to kick in, either that or it was not going to have the same effects it was supposed to have. Maybe I would have to be switched again and have to put up with three long months of trying to find balance on my own. It’s like taking crutches away from someone who's had them for years and demanding that they walk on their own. I am sure that I can once again learn how to find balance on my own, I got close at one point. However, it didn’t take long for me to fall back into the imbalance that seemed to swallow me up so easily soon after.
xxxMy history teacher used to use a cake as a metaphor for a revolution. There was not just one event that lead to a full out revolt from a group of people. There were always multiple things were thrown together into a pot which made the revolution happen. Of course there was always a trigger. It was the same way I found my episodes worked. Maybe it was my overactive imagination at play once again (Which I would not be surprised about in the least). On the contrary there seemed to always be an external force that eventually pushed these either eccentric ups or depressing lows in my life. I was probably overthinking the whole thing, I was told it was unlikely that events taking place in my life had any correlation with the phases that i seemed to rotate through every so often. Switching between them at strange times while finding peace in the middle for a short amount of time. It was like a hurricane that never lost a source of water, it always managed to keep getting larger and larger sucking me into the middle of it. The middle was peaceful for a time before the remainder of the storm played out its violent nature. Ripping apart the fabric of my mind, in a way which was often difficult to explain to others. Even those whom were trying to help.
xxxI tried to shake the sorrow from my thoughts but it seemed to just get worse the more that I wished for it to go away. I remember feeling like this when the disorder first manifested, it slowly gripped at my heel before dragging me into the pit or far too close to the sun. I Shuttered a little but despite being hugged by the warmth from the blanket that clung to my legs. Seeing the obvious pain from one of the creatures that I had grown so close too over the years must have set this off. The pure terror plaguing Wraith’s eyes was one that I had seen before. The night that we had saved her from the jaws of her sister, the rampage that would have ended with her demise. Had we not intervened of course. The smaller Indominus looked terrified beyond any way that words could describe, the way the eye that she had left searched the room groping for anything to hold onto. Anything that might help her remain alive. The emotion swirling in the golden eyes of the now clearly matured hybrid was nothing compared to that night, however it reflected elements of what had happened. I had a feeling that she dreamed about her sister, I obviously could never be sure. As one could not ask a dog what it dreamt about, I could not ask Wraith. Despite my desire to want to try to understand her more. Maybe then I could help her.
xxxI placed my hand on the glass as I felt another tear slip from my eye. stop it I hissed to myself my internal monologue wishing that I could try to get myself together. Like all those teachers had all those years ago, that I just needed to be stronger. Maybe in those moments I could gain some control over my emotions that seemed to be as wild as the dinosaurs in this park. My attention was brought back to Wraith when I heard the sound that she was making, she was trying to comfort me. I desperately wanted my features to curl up into a smile but it was as though they were frozen… Frozen in place by whatever was plaguing my mind. The hurricane pulling my lips down into a saddened curl which I could see in the slight reflection of myself looking back at me in the glass. Wraith cared about me in a way that not even I could fully understand, Owen said this was a possibility having imprinted on her. Even he was unsure what could potentially have spawned out of said imprint not having a clue what the hybrid was made of in the first place. She wanted to let me know that she was okay, as well as the fact that she wanted me to be the same as well. Its funny how I got paired with the animal in this park that was the most damaged, maybe the two of us could somehow fix each other.
xxxMy thoughts were once again torn from the hybrid when my phone buzzed on the ground begging for my attention. It was the text that Owen had sent me, still wanting to know if I was alright. I am sure that from the conversation that we had this morning he had every right to be concerned about me, I had been acting more distant (Another sign that a down was coming, yet another sign that I ignored) from him and the rest of the staff I had grown closer to. Despite that number being one that I could count on one had. I took my eyes off of Wraith for a second to glance down at it to be sure that my suspicions were correct. They were. Thankfully. My eyes turned back to Wraith and I opened my mouth to speak no words coming out, I needed to respond to her. To try to explain the same conclusion that I had come too. “They aren't working.” three words I dreaded hearing from the doctor, and worse yet: Coming from my own mouth. ”She won’t come anywhere near you” I attempted trying to comfort her. Her sibling was the only thing that had seemed to torment the poor hybrid. It could be the only thing that she dreamt about which could bring about the lingering look of terror in her eyes.
Ooc;
Aah I am so sorry that this is so late. My mental health has been a mess and I've found it extraordinarily difficult to write. I've been writing this in chunks whenever I had felt the muse strike me but its been few and far between.
