MMC

I am doing the prompt from this picture:

I looked around. No one was anywhere. Just me. All alone.

Again.

I sighed. I hated being alone. I wanted to go somewhere with someone. I wanted to be a normal person. I wanted to be down there on the earth. Instead of up here in some fantasy world all alone.

I sighed again. The swing I was stuck on burned my hands. It stung to move.

When I looked down at the river again, I noticed that instead of it still being twelve inches beneath me, it was half that distance.

I stared at it longer, and the longer I did so, the higher it came up.

Soon I realized that I had to stand up. Even if it hurt. And I had to do it now.

I moved gently to where I was standing on the burlap ropes above the rising water.

Looking around again, I saw something move in the trees. A flicker of hope rushed through me.

“Hello?” I called out.

The movement stopped. But, after a few minutes, it started again. Moving closer and closer, to me.

Even with the power I had, it came closer to me.

I smiled when I saw it at the edge of the river. It was a woman. A real woman.

She seemed strange in a way. She wore clothes to match the trees and dirt. Her face was streaked with mud. But her eyes caught me. They were full of fear.

“Hello,” I said.

“Get out of here. I can’t do it,” She turned away, “And hurry up.”

“What, why?” I said.

“They’re coming for you. And if you don’t want to be caught, you better hurry up.”

She thought I could get out of this? She was wrong.

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abrielle lindsay