(Isabella)
That familiar sound.
That ping.
It was ingrained in me already, and elicited emotions that I didn’t dare put words to.
A muffled ding, familiar. Familiar.
My body felt like it was surfacing through deep water, the ringing in my ears turned muffled, but as I reached the surface, strained my hand to break through the muffling water churning around me.
I couldn’t.
I was treading water beneath the surface. This time it was a moving thing. Less of the black box I was contained in, less like the fuzzy darkness I let myself slip into.
Wherever I was, it was moving, and maybe if it was moving I could too.
I reached out towards the surface, towards the emotions that that sound elicited. I couldn’t explain why but I knew that on the other side of this I could access them. I wan
