The Incarceration of Icarus

[Sunnah]

This way please he insisted.

Linoleum squeaked under rubber soles as she shuffled along behind him, her gaze fixed ahead, not daring to look up at the blinding white lights designed to induce sanity and a clearer view of reality.

Resisting the urge to pass his room, she hesitantly peered in.

He was uncharacteristically still, submerged in a dark silence that had clipped the wings of his soul and left his mind drifting on a static sea.

She remembered the limitless possibility that burned behind those now unblinking eyes and desperatley longed to hear his laugh.

Wake up she whispered urgently, wake up and show them how you soar my love.

[Kristine_ES]

The Icarus story is complex, and I'm thinking there's more to this Six also and would like to see more... ?

[Jamie Hogan]

Love the idea of this, looking in on an imprisoned Icarus. This sounds very much like a beginning - and a good one. The vision of a "static sea" is outstanding.

[Cath Barton]

That's very moving Sunnah