Chapter 1
Dawn cracks the open sky with orange and yellow stripes. Birds rip into the atmosphere with their chirping melodramatic sounds of agony from hunger as the world gets more and more cold. Animal sounds are bare to more as it leaves the air with just the naked wind flying through the rustling trees. They silently yell not with words but with breakage against the bark of tree giants, whistling to get out of this forest.
Rising from this certain pain goes a cloudy white rabbit, hopping frantically into the trees from the bright sky. He sat there, his skin sizzled from the sun’s bare eye as it burned into his flesh. His eyes a mimic of the ocean’s blue, deeply rich as an eternal abyss twists in his pupils. He let his paws sit on his lap. Every touch feeling like a touch of hell itself upon its wounds. Tear drops made a miniature pond beneath him while the world around him seemed erased from what it was 5 days ago.
“Why has nature collapsed and animals must flee?” he thought. As his tears evaporated into the horrific air flying with the silent yells, he looked around at the strained trees still crying when the bushes flickered next to him. There popped out his sister. Nessi.
”Why are you burnt, did you go out into the torturing light again?” She carefully let her hand rest on his wounds as he ached aloud gripping the tight air into his fists before removing her hand. His expression was not scarce but more a frequent ‘Why are you worrying so much, I’m fine?’, but he wasn’t fine.
Not even in the slightest. His fur was atrociously tortured by the many thorns he’d crossed to come here. Every slice was a sound that would haunt him for as long as his heart were awake and his ears flickered. As he returned their deep gaze, she resumed. ”You should come back, mother is worried about you. We must hurry before breakfast, shall we not?”
Nessi’s eyes were as soft as a pillow when finished that sentence. The little rabbit looked into the glistening field of the sunlight being laid over it, an invisible yet existing cover of brightness that can never be escaped nor fully ignored even if you tried. His sister then turned towards the forest and ran with the wind as the rabbit still stood clear with open eye. His eyes dried up before running back with his sister through the trees as the wind scraped against his skin once more, “More pain than pleasure” he thought.
