Landed Wings

chapter 23: PAIN



RAVEN

The lights flickered above Raven’s head and water dripped down in a deadening pattern of drips. Raven listened to the drips and tried to let it distract her from her pain. It didn’t work, but then she hadn’t expected it to. Raven thought, in an abstract kind of way, about all of the books she read. She remembered when the heroine was taken away to some dark dungeon and tortured but the thought of her love blocked all pain from the moment. Well, Raven had tried that and she now knew that didn’t work. She knew that pain wasn’t something you could just will away. No, thoughts could do nothing. All you could do was deal with it. And it didn’t make the pain any less. There was no accepting the pain, or ignoring it. There was no out of body experience or sudden surge of strength. There was just it. And you just had to deal. Raven looked at her broken wing. It was lying uselessly by her side. She didn’t remember how it had happened, but the fact of it was there, and couldn’t be ignored. She wished she could remember how it happened. Who had done it…how. Because when she gets out, she wants the anger and pain in her memories to give her the ammunition to take them down.