A blinding light met her senses, like a flashlight suddenly jerked into her eyes in attempt to boil her pupils as one would exploit a magnifying glass to melt an ant. She inhaled a sharp hiss of air, scolding herself for forgetting her weakness. She quickly shut the white pain behind the darkness of her eyelids and touched her fingertips against her forehead with a soft grunt, wishing to alleviate the throbbing headache that had taken hold. She leaned back against the door of the phonebooth--her body calculating the density, the temperature, the sound, faster than her mind could ever sort out, and concluding that the door was indeed made of glass.
Her shoulder and the glass had hardly accepted one another before the surface was wrenched from her position. "Hey b*tch, move it!" The speaker forced a reaction out of her before her instincts had moment enough to devise one, roughly shoving her out of the way. Her reply caught in her throat as she stumbled forward, mind fighting for balance. Finally she regained her footing and the blank world uprighted itself, leaving her fury to cough on dust as her disembodied bully hurled away from her into the sky. Her body felt the loss of heat in the gravel, the fleeting wind against her skin, and told her when she was alone and safe--only then did she launch a stream of insults into the cursed empty air.
Her shoulder and the glass had hardly accepted one another before the surface was wrenched from her position. "Hey b*tch, move it!" The speaker forced a reaction out of her before her instincts had moment enough to devise one, roughly shoving her out of the way. Her reply caught in her throat as she stumbled forward, mind fighting for balance. Finally she regained her footing and the blank world uprighted itself, leaving her fury to cough on dust as her disembodied bully hurled away from her into the sky. Her body felt the loss of heat in the gravel, the fleeting wind against her skin, and told her when she was alone and safe--only then did she launch a stream of insults into the cursed empty air.
