Who: Rhea
Where: her apartment
When: nearly midnight
What: Rhea watches the news, is baffled by the strobe lighting electricity dance party that is New Orleans, and then promptly passes out in pain.
Currently Rhea was holed up in her apartment on the third floor. She was watching the news with great fascination, her thumbnail wedged in between her teeth as she worried at it. Her stomach did flips as she watched the people on her television desperately try to get close to whatever the hell it was that launched itself into the New Orleans soil.
Just as the reporter was about to describe what the thing looked like, her television set turned off. The electricity within her apartment quickly followed and all she could do was sit in the dark in silence, wondering what the hell just happened.
“Uh…” she said out loud without realizing it before she stumbled from the couch.
Her toe caught on something and she flew across the room toward the window with a thud. She shrieked in surprise, but before she could focus on it more, lights slowly flickered on in the distance. There was a quiet hum as the electricity turned itself back on for a moment. It was just long enough for her to sigh in relief before it turned itself off again.
“…” Rhea looked at the ceiling and blinked for a second.
It hummed again and the lights were on! Yay!
They went off again. Boo!
On. Off. On. Off. On-off-on-off-on. She contemplated digging through her closet so she could find her glowsticks from when she saw Aladdin on ice.
At this rate, she was going to get seizures!
“Stop this madness!!!” she yelled into the darkness.
All was quiet. She paused for a moment. There was noises from the apartments above, below, and around her. Quiet talking. Dogs barking. Scared children muttering to their parents. Things seemed fine for the moment at least.
She spoke too soon. There was an even louder hum and then a loud cracking sound before the electricity turned off for a final time. But with this came a headache of the absolute worst proportions. The pain was blinding. Throbbing. It made her drop to her knees and hold her head as dizziness overwhelmed her. Tendrils of blackness crept up on the edges of her vision, slowly swallowing up all that she could see until there was nothing but darkness.
Quiet, painful, lonely darkness.