michael corner is reluctantly growing up (mlcorner) wrote in pandorarpg,
Michael was not really convinced by Siobhan's nod, seeing as it did not seem very normal and she seemed quite shaken. He wanted to comfort her in some way, but he highly doubted that Greyback was going to allow that. Of course, he was right about that. After rambling on about finding out Siobhan's name - something she apparently hadn't told him and Michael had just blurted right out like a sodding idiot - Greyback decided that he wasn't going to muck about anymore.
Michael had been tortured by magic before in seventh year, by the Carrows, but this was something altogether different. Then he was able to pull his mind away and think of other things. He talked to Anthony and Terry inside his head and pretended he was somewhere else, but he just wasn't able to get to that place with this. Not yet, anyway. When the burning branch hit his eye it was like a burning needle had been stabbed directly into his cornea. He couldn't help but scream, because it was a pain he'd never experienced before. Michael had never felt his flesh burn and now the skin around his eye was burning and all he could do was paw at it with his hands but that wasn't helping, not at all.
At the back of his mind he considered that if Terry were here he'd know how to fix this, to keep him from getting any lasting damage from this but Terry wasn't here and Michael's eye was flooding with tears and he couldn't open it and he was fairly certain he'd never use it again at that point, but it was a fleeting thought because the pain was so excruciating. He was hardly aware of what Greyback was saying to him - if he was even talking to Michael, because at this point Michael could not be certain of that. As he twisted and writhed, his journal fell out of his pocket, unnoticed and even if he had he would not care at this point because Greyback took another swing at him, hitting him in the right shoulder and the burning pain started all over again. His shirt was melting against his skin and he tried to tear it away but he was pulling his skin off too. This wasn't really happening to him, was it?