Recognise || Heithan
Black is modest and arrogant at the same time. Black is lazy and easy - but mysterious. But above all, black says this: "I don't bother you - you don't bother me." It didn't matter that each day, the darkness fulfilling every crevice in Heidi's mind was growing thicker and more implanted than it had the day before - no. Not even the small cries from her children, howling for their mother - for her touch and sweet assurances as every mother should give their babies - could lighten the deepness that her thoughts were in. Like a dark well, like when Ethan was trying to awaken her from her drug-induced sleep when the Administration had taken her. Ethan.
Another booming curtain on thick, velvet blackness shot across her mind, leaving the blue eyes that used to run electric, to now run pale and lifeless. Like a corpse. Usually, one of the experienced mothers would come in, lift Heidi up and position the baby where it was meant to be so it could be fed - repeatedly encouraging her to take tighter hold of the baby with her dad nearby soothing its sibling after it had it's meal. It was the same, it had been the same since Heidi's mind had traveled to where it was now, and even as her father and the helping mother left the tent once the twins had fallen asleep, the thinning blonde would fall back into her coma-like state: alive, but unresponsive.
Open eyes stared unblinkingly at the rough canvas to the tent, the light outside dimming and twilight approaching the camp. There was a shuffle in the tent, but it didn't register into Heidi's mind - as nothing would register even if it were in front of her shouting in her face. Then she heard it. The rumble of a chest, a choked chuckle, and unfamiliar all the same. It was the first thing to spark something in her brain, and it wasn't a good one - like a volcano making it's first eruption. Before anything else registered, Heidi was on her feet, standing behind the bearded and thin man with a knife, one she had swiped, and held to his throat. She didn't even recognise her own voice as she spoke, but it came out nonetheless. "You hurt her, I kill you."
