Anisa's alternative ending
By Anisa / Spinebreakers Crew
As her eyes swayed feverishly my mind rushed frantically, eager to find a solution. To save her.
The pulse in my head was pumping; pounding hysterically. Soon it became the only noise I could hear, screaming through my ears and screeching through the trees, beating the birds away.
My entire body was quivering, rattling with fear. The fear of loss, unlike any other I had felt before. The fear of losing someone close to me. A loved one, right in front of my disbelieving eyes, huddled to my shivering body.
But with my hands contorting uncontrollably, the spasms shook Roans head, a sudden jerk ripping her from my sagging arms. Her lustrous locks billowed to the floor and her head, crashing to the ground with an almighty shudder. A splitting noise so severe, it pierced the pounds through my ears. Reviving me... for the shock of my life.
For there she lay, a glistening red gazelle in a bed of luscious green. Her radiance was enchanting, trance-like and unreal. A glorious witch. Yet as my eyes worked up her slender frame, they locked with her beady whites. Wide open, dilute, dull ... and dead.
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I was too young to know love. Real love that is, not mere infatuation. For that was the blindfold of too many star-struck lovers, brought to the same uncanny fate. To dwindle in their empty graves, with empty hearts and empty minds. Forever they would lie with memories of half a life and half a dream.
But I had lived far less than half. Still I had a future, regardless of love and loss. I would live and live on. Then, when my time was up, I would slip away into my soul, and glide gently into the fading light to drown myself in thoughtless dreams and coloured lights, to immerse myself in bliss forever.
But now... I must live.