captain marvel; earth's mightiest hero (captmarvel) wrote in rooms,
The push made her stumble for a bit. It was graceless for her, and she wanted to kick herself for it. The strange part was that she kept running even when every part of her was screaming to stand up and fight, damn it. But her legs were disagreeing with her mind.
She did possess enough self-awareness (or stupidity, maybe), to look behind. Immediately, Carol wished she hadn't. Watching the very life get leeched out of someone was disturbing to say the least, but she couldn't look away. The minute the ash hit the ground, she turned and doubled up her efforts on getting away, willing herself to wake up or do something--
--but she knew that the sight of blue eyes contrasting against the darkness wasn't going to leave her subconscious any time soon.