Pagan: Anna: Weather

[k_a_webb]

Written for Elizabeth Barrette’s prompt.

When Anna glanced out of the window it was raining. Again. Slowly she was beginning to get used to it, but thanks to the memories she was starting to get back from her life before she was almost certain that it hadn’t rained so much on the world she’d lived on before. Wherever that was. It was also a very different type of rain and that was the hardest thing to get used to. Going out in the rain was safe, before her memories had returned she’d even walked out in it, but ever since the memories of the acid rains of her home world had returned she hadn’t been able to bring herself to go out in it again.

Of course Anna had no way of knowing if the memories she had of the world she lived on before were truly memories. They could just be stories she told herself during the time she spent under hypnosis trying to find out who she was. Juliet said it was possible, but as Anna kept seeing the same world every time she went under it was unlikely, but that didn’t stop her from worrying that she wanted to be a walk in instead of just a girl with amnesia and that coloured her experiences. Sighing, she looked back down at the journal she’d started for her life before Charlotte memories.

Anna even had a journal for the memories she was getting back that belonged to Charlotte. Sometimes it was hard to tell the difference between the two of them, because some of their experiences had been similar, but there was always something that told Anna if she was remembering being Charlotte. Normally it was something tiny, like Charlotte making a different hand gesture to one that Anna would have used, and she was beginning to understand why Charlotte’s body had called her. The problem was Anna didn’t yet know what had happened to end her own life. Every time she seemed to be getting close something blocked her and it was really beginning to get annoying.

Juliet kept telling her to be patient. There was a reason her death was still a mystery, most likely Anna’s subconscious knowing she wasn’t ready for it, so it would come when she was ready. Strangely Anna had already seen Charlotte’s death, the choice the girl had made to leave her body behind when she had the chance, and Anna was slowly beginning to understand the girl who had once owned her body. At least who had owned the body if Anna really was a walk in.

Lloyd believed her, no matter how weird her life before might have been. He kept telling her he’d always believed in the multiverse, which was probably part of the reason Charlotte had as well, and it wasn’t that much of a surprise to hear that Anna had come from a world that had terrifying acid rain. As she glanced out of the window once more she couldn’t help wondering if it had been the acid rain that had killed her and that was why she couldn’t bring herself to go walking in the rain any more.

Mirrored from K. A. Webb Writing.