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Burden Of Hope

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Banished from above and scorned by those below, where is hope found?
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Chapter 1 - Not So Grateful Fall

Why.. why am I falling?

As I passed the first layer of clouds I tried to gain my bearings and figure out what led to where I am. However my train of thoughts were quickly broken as I realized my back was in sheer agony.

"AH! Whats happening?!"

My mind frantically went through everything I knew for an idea until I realized even my age was unknown to me. Two arms quickly probed behind me for whatever was responsible for this torture.

"AuGhH!"

My hands flinched back instantly. It felt like…flesh was exposed from two sections on my back. Like part of me was brutally ripped off.

Besides that fact, nothing else was wrong. Oh, except maybe the fact that I was still continuously falling. I started yelling but my lungs quickly gave out, still I exhausted my voice hoping that something would save me.

I was only a statues length away from hitting the ground, when suddenly the wind that had brushed against my face while I fell had somehow slowed.

Attempting to widen my eyes in shock I realized that so had I.

"Okay… okay. Im still falling but I have some time to figure something out. Wait, how do I know the size of a statue? What even is a statue?!"

Realizing the ground would not wait for me I focused on anything i could recall, any sliver of the past that could give me context to my situation.

"I…who the fuck am I ?"

Remembering I was falling, I quickly looked down for anything; well attempted to before time reminded me I was its captive.

Then suddenly, my eyes caught sight of an emblem fastened to my waist that obscurely resembled what wind would look like.

'I have to grab it!' I instinctively thought. 'But why…?'

Even as my fingers ever so slowly closed the distance between the object the ground was nearing fast.

However, mere moments before slamming into the floor at a lethal speed, I managed to get ahold of the emblem and crushed it.

Suddenly the world was drowned in a torrent of wind which swiftly cushioned my would-be lethal fall. Flung into the air by the gale I unceremoniously fell to the ground on my face as the wind gave me no luxury of landing slowly.

The ground felt, well not at all soft but a weird sensation was also crawling across my skin.

I promptly wiped my face and realized that several small rocks had dug into it, I slowly realized that the sensation was evidently pain but my back had caused such agony I failed to realize it.