Impending Doom

Arga felt he wind course through her hair, tugging her along or was it just clinging to her in fear? She couldn’t tell but she knew that the wind had never felt like this before.

Kole stared admirably at the silver hair the wind seemed to dance with. Perhaps the wind was fond of Arga. He could understand why.

“Kole! Hey!” she waved frantically.

“What’s the matter?” he asked as he approached.

“I have a kind of sick feeling in my gut,”

As she said that, Kole began to feel it too.

He gazed up at the sky and watched the clouds run away in a frantic yet subtle way. The birds followed too and he had an unshakable feeling that there were no more animals left in Atlantis.

“Mama!” a child screamed and cried for no reason at all.

“We have to get out of here,” Kole bagan.

“What do you mean?”

“It’s happening, Arga,” she heard the panic in his voice.

“I know people think I’m crazy but I wasn’t wrong about the flood. I just didn’t expect it to be so soon.”

Arga searched Kole’s eyes and found conviction and truth. She shivered.

“Is is your …boat ready?” she asked carefully.

He looked down and whispered the answer he wished he didn’t have to bear,

“No,”

“Well come on then. Nana is crazier than you. She’s been preparing for this her whole life.”

The two began to run through the platinum-glass streets. Onlookers looking tempted to join them. Kole tried to scan his beloved city. The City of Marble and Silver was covered in worry and dread. He noticed the flowers budding and the trees trembling.

They reached Nana’s shop at the harbour and began to pound on the door.

“Nana! Open up!”

A fragile hunched woman opened the door and embraced her shrieking grandchild.

“Child,” Nana sobbed, “it was silly to think to leave by sea. You see, we have no time.”

Arga continued to sob in Nana’s arms.

Kole touched her shoulder reassuringly.

“We can try,” he said hopefully.

Kole left the two crying in the shop and begun untying various knots. His frustration made it more difficult.

“Kole,” Arga creeped up on him, “look,” she pointed towards the sea.

He didn’t dare turn around for he knew what was coming. He pulled Arga in his arms and kissed her passionately and held her until there was nothing.