Mid-Week Flash Challenge - Week 313
This week's picture prompt is by Simone Pinna, a self-taught Italian artist, known particularly for Erotic Faires, so be careful clicking that link - it is definitely NSFW! Though this link should only go to the picture that I am using as a prompt. Despite the riskee nature, there's some incredible art and talent!
A dabble into the concept of getting wings being a trend.
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Mutant
She went up ontiptoes, craning to see her ankles in the full-length mirror. She hoped theylooked better than they felt; she hadn’t anticipated them being so painful. Shethought that getting your wings would be delightful, maturing and completing.But she felt none of those things; she felt disappointed, ignorant and naive.
She believed from here on out she would be blissfullyhappy, but if the pain of the fitting into the ankles was this bad, she dreadedto think what the pain in the back would feel like. No one had talked aboutthat, they had only talked about the delight of flying. They didn’t talk aboutwhat it took to get there.
Still, she could flutter them, even if itwas sore and it made them bleed. They looked pretty. She just had to tolerate afew days of discomfort. But it did make her think twice about how quickly shewas going to get her back wings fitted – although how stupid would she look ifshe walked around for months with just ankle wings? She would only be able to hoverabove the ground for a couple of minutes before falling flat on her face. No,she had to suck it up and go ahead with her plans for the operation thefollowing week, and get all the pain over in one go.
She hoped that once it was done she wouldget over her stupid vertigo too. None of her mates had a problem launchingthemselves off cliffs, and she put that down to them already having their wingsfor years. They’d had parents that had been able to afford to get them fittedwhen they were young, so they could grow into them – although it did mean they’dhad to have corrective surgery a few times too. At least she would only need togo through it once now she was fully grown.
She tried not to think about how bad hervertigo had got when Belito had taken her out last month. She’d held onto himas he’d taken them to a secluded spot for a bit of romance, but it had takenall her willpower to stop herself going into full blown panic. She’d tried tohide it from him, but he’d known, and when he’d dumped her the following weekhe’d called her an archaic mutant.
She looked at her ankles in the mirror. Shefelt more of a mutant now. Did everyone bleed this badly? She didn’t dare ask.She didn’t want to be seen as weak or find out she was the freak. It was badenough living to this age without wings.
She dabbed at the blood, which was stilltrickling out. She hoped they wouldn’t get infected. She’d go to the shop andget some ointment today, and maybe visit the cliff, see if she still felt thesame. It wouldn’t be long before she’d be taking her own maiden flight. Sheneeded to get used to it. Things would improve – they had to.
