(Cold…

So cold…

I have to keep my consciousness,

Why this Lyra do this to me?

Is it to show me how she felt floating around like this?

I can’t stay awake any longer

I just want to close my eyes

Where am I right now?

How will anyone find me in this sea?

Maybe I am already at the bottom of the ocean and no one will find me,

I’m so cold…

How am I still alive?

Maybe I should die

Maybe I should survive

Am I human?

All this cold,

I miss the warmth

What warmth?

When have I ever felt warm before?

…..

I remember

I remember

I remember when I was a little girl,

Everything was warm,

No?

Yes!

I remember that, my mother was a former royal guard, my father was a merchant, my brother, he was much older than me,

We hardly spoke he kept to himself,

Mother said it was because he was training to be a royal guard,

So, I never bothered him,

I remember this?

No.

Yes,

I remember going to school as a little girl, there was this boy there Apollo,

He was scrawny, and would always spend his time alone reading,

I liked him but he would always get scared of me,

He was afraid of everyone,

I heard he was the prince’s cousin,

Why does he act so cowardly,

He would always come to school injured or bruised

Omari said his cousin was a klutz, I believed that,

I remember

I became friends with that boy, it took a while but he finally warmed up to me,

It was a warm time,

I remember….

How do I remember this?

I remember, coming home from school one day,

Everything was quiet,

There were also some screams down the street in other houses,

I was scared

“Mother!?” I called

“Father!?” no answer

“Brother!?” my house was silent,

I remember the sound of the screams and yells beginning light up the city

I was confused,

The floor outside the kitchen was wet and red

When I went inside everything felt cold

My mother lay with her head across the counter, her throat was slit open with the red substance leaking onto the floor

There was still food on the stove

It smelt good

It still felt cold

I wanted to vomit

A drop of red fell onto my head

It was cold

I looked up

My father was the roof frozen

His face was there of saddened agony

I didn’t know what to do

I screamed I ran

I screamed I ran

I screamed I ran

I remember this

Why am I remembering this?

These are Lyra’s memories,

Am I Lyra?

No,

Why were they so vivid?

Where is Lyra?

Why am I remembering your memories?

Have you died?

Was this your plan

I remember…

No,

No more

I don’t want to see anymore!

I remember…)

….

As society on the second ring goes into a state of panic over the partial destruction of the plastic beach, and the full destruction of another isle, due to the Madvillainy organization,

Kage gets swept up and about by the ocean’s waves in frozen reminiscence.

Elegy End