Elias Almgren (mixedsenses) wrote in notionsic, @ 2011-07-23 22:33:00 |
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Entry tags: | chuck shearer, complete, elias almgren, july 2011 |
Who Chuck Shearer and Elias Almgren
What Elias loses his license
When Monday morning, July 25 (forward-dated)
Where Boston streets
Rating Low to medium
Status Complete
Elias knew how to drive a car. He'd had a license since he was eighteen (the legal age limit for holding a car driver's license in Sweden) and had never had any serious run-ins with the law concerning his driving. Concerns had been voiced during his practice driving about how his synesthesia would affect him in traffic, but after proving several times that the power wasn't a hindrance for his driving, he'd gotten the laminated card that gave him permission to get behind the wheel and drive freely. In the twelve years he'd been a legal driver, he'd never had a problem with his senses interfering with his driving.
They said there was a first time for everything, though. This thought stumbled through Elias' otherwise oddly empty mind where he sat in the driver's seat of his car, the front of it buckled against a stone pillar with a second car jammed into the passenger side. A crowd of people were quickly gathering around the accident and someone asked Elias is he was okay. He nodded in silence, still trying to figure out how he'd ended up in this situation. As the happening caught up with him and he began to register his surroundings again, he also remembered - although very patchily - that there'd had been unexpected sounds (he'd eaten an apple and the texture of it had brought the sounds of a violin) and sights, even touches out of nowhere. He knew himself well enough to conclude that it had been the synesthesia acting up, but he couldn't remember why there had been such a multitude of connections made. He remembered the sound of the crash (his vision had gone blaze orange) and the sound of screeching tires (a hot sensation on his skin). The memories of the moments just passed were jumbled and confusing.
Looking through his broken windscreen, Elias caught the equally shocked and scared eyes of he female driver in the other crashed car. The more he took in of the crash site, the more his senses jarred and suddenly his sight was lost. It wasn't the first time his brain shut down a sense to prevent overload, but it was never pleasant. With the added strain of lost eyesight, the noise around him faded in and out as Elias' hearing wavered and it was with a great surge of self-restraint that he grabbed the now useless steering wheel and forced himself to take a series of deep, refocusing breaths. Once his hearing returned to normal, all Elias could do was reassure worried onlookers that he was fine and wait for his eyesight to return.