:| Unfamiliar Familiar Places |: {Marr//blitz}

Red and orange were tugging me out of bed, just as they had done when Mother and Brother joined the both of them. Let’s go! Let’s go! they kept chanting as I moved my body and gingerly stepped on brown. “I’m sorry, brown,” I would whisper every morning. Brown squeaked out, It’s okay, Qibby! Brown had always been so patient, so kind. “So what should we do today, blue?” But before blue could answer, red started tugging on my hand, pink snaking down my arms to join with red.

“Where to, red?” Red said nothing, only recruiting more of its friends to pull me toward the door. “Goodbye, pale yellow!” And pale yellow would wave back to me, vibrating until I made my way back to it.

Gray and blue danced around me when I left my house, but they let red lead all of us to wherever it wanted to go. Red finally stopped pulling when I stood in front of a structure. I hadn’t been in a structure like the one in front of me for years, but red kept urging me to step forward. White and yellow dripped down from the walls, pooling around my feet as if to envelop me. Curious and curiouser, I stepped forward and let red take me in.