yindi [PHLOX] (weema) wrote in xemplifylogs, @ 2008-11-19 21:49:00 |
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Who: Yindi [VENUS]
When: Wednesday, September 24, around dinner time
Where: The courtyard
What: An intense storm advances an impending evolutionary stage in young Yindi's abilities.
Rating & Warnings: G
What had been a fair enough day had grown dark and the storm clouds came rolling in as had been anticipated. The sky had let go its gift and down it came, gently at first, but grew to be heavy. The only reason she had really woken was because her backside had become rather soaked. Almost with a start, Yindi's shoulders shook and alerted her limbs that sleep was now over and it would be time to move. As she pushed herself to her elbows, her green eyes narrowed and she looked down her front; soaked clear on through. Had she really been so tired? Did she really need to sleep that much?
It was hardly a bother but she would feel badly that there was going to be a trail of water from a small study door that was readily accessible and on up to her dormitory. Maybe if she rolled her pant legs up some it would help keep it from dripping; with that idea, Yindi pushed herself to her feet and did just that while she looked through a heavy curtain of wet hair.
The thunder and lightning came in fast, much faster than she would have thought. There was a rule that had been talked about when she was tutored as a youngster called the thirty-thirty rule. If the time between seeing and hearing a storm's companions were less than thirty seconds apart, you were in danger of being struck. To be safe, you should wait thirty minutes after the storm has ended to go back outside. It was at that moment, when Yindi was crossing the courtyard, the storm grew in strength.
There was a heavy charge in the air and Yindi could feel it. A tickling sensation crept across her skin despite the rain that clung to her warm body. Both hands rose to pull the dirtied-blonde clumps out of her eyes when there was a great flash and a greater boom.
What happened at that moment the girl would not be able to explain. A scientist would have a better understanding of it, if at all. It was as though every vein and artery in her body was electrified. From the pit of her stomach, Yindi felt her body tighten and seemingly scatter across the yard at the same time. She screamed, but she never heard it nor felt it. Every part of Yindi's body hurt, from the tip of her nose down to the littlest of her toes. The flash and the boom, and finally she gasped for air like the life had nearly been choked out of her. Her hands were tightly dug into the ground, hair in her face once again Yindi pushed herself up from her knees to her feet and with great pain in each step, staggered to the door.
When she was found, Yindi had braced herself against the wall. She had braced herself not with her hand, shoulder, hip, or back, but with a thick, green vine that had sprouted from the palm of her right hand. Her hair seemed alive as little tendrils of green, like ivy, slowly grew out and through the saturated locks. Most striking and perhaps most frightening was the green in her face, in the more prominent veins that everyone had run through their features. Her soft green eyes were now wildly bright and as she struggled to speak, a hibiscus flower blossomed out of her left foot.
Weema Yindi Walker had just evolved.