She walked back out the door.
The door swung open again.
She breezed in.
The first dress clung like indecision — black and white lines zigzagging wildly from a half assed sew.
She grinned,
“Nope, not this one,”
she said, twirling once.
“Feels like I’m wearing static.”
She vanished through the door.
Then it cracked open again.
A second attempt, all clean symmetry.
Her smile was brighter, but with tension behind it.
“Too… neat,”
tugging at the hem. “I’m not wallpaper.”
Gone again.
Nothing.
“I don’t think she’s coming back.”
BOOM!
The door blasted open, and she launched through it—like a rockstar on a human catapult
“Ta-da!”
“Your turn!”
She snapped her fingers.
The door yawned,
she hurled me forward,
and gravity shattered.
My body tumbled through layers of skulls reflecting endless versions of me
They twisted into tunnels and I flattened.
I was the rejected baptist church salvation pamphlet floating through the tunnel the Venezuelans sold chicles in
I was a pancake.
Flat.
one big, wide sheet.
a sticker on a wall,
damn it.
big, stupid
sheet.
dumb fucking sticker.
Ambriel descended into this realm’s gates.
Her wings extended over the stars as she entered this place
She swung her staff through the air
She traced the constellations as she struck me in my 2d chest
A soft hiss.
She was puffing me up.
Making me feel like I’m about to explode.
The air keeps coming, pushing my ribs out. my skin stretching, tight
BULGING EyEs out of my skull like grillEd onions if thEy wErE rEattachEd to thE ground bEforE ThEY bEcomE the DEath humiliation sacrificE wE call food
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Ambriel tightens her grip on her staff embedded in my chest she pulls it out
Rose petals tumble out.
My lungs emerge from the cavity in my chest — pulsating and deflating.
Ambriel held my delicate lung bouquet to her face as if it was meant for her.
a subtle twist of her wrist
the bouquet of lungs ballooned
pushing the stars aside and making space for itself amongst the planets.
She leaned in gently, baring her teeth.
!!!CHOMP!!!
WHRRRR! — She bit down, and sent it hurling through the void like a runaway train!
WHRRRR! — It zips through starfields,
STOPS eight light-years away,
then spirals back — and I shiver,
knowing it’s headed straight for me.
It spiraled back.
Faster.
Relentless.
It blasts past planets so fast the stars ricochet off rings and asteroids spin
THWUMP!
The mass of inflated metal and roses smashed into my chest cavity.
THUD!
The balloon squealed,
the impact sent me upwards, and I felt it retract as it shit out air.