Chapter 2 ☁︎ Halt

  I felt like I was floating when I darted up and ran to the men. I searched through his still body, his pockets and his backpack. I took his knife out of its sheath and unarmed the gunner. My legs started to ache from running, and my muscles burned from all the heavy armor I was carrying. It hurt to much to move, once time came back, I needed to   bask in the peacefulness. It would only last so long though. In a flash, I had also cut off that man's annoying pony tail. He thankfully had a water purifier on him, so I had hid it (and the guns) behind the heli, so I could retrieve it later. I sucked in a painful and final breath in a standstill, before it all started again. "Let's do this!" I smiled. It hurt.  26 muscles in my face ached, but the pain washed away and the men tumbled into nothing. "What?" The gunner hit at his sides. "Dammit dammit dammit!" He screamed. "I'm not here to murder, but I will let nature do her work." I said. "It's her!"

"Allivia, remember the name."

 I tried to focus again "Pause." The men were in mid turn. I took the rope from the satchel I had hid and ran in front of them. The pain hadn't started yet. It hurts to move through a space where beings aren't supposed to move. A space vacuum even. A space where basically no living matter is - or should be. And it hurt to move. But at least I didn't have to breathe (but I do it anyway, it feels good). "Play." They were still moving, so by the time they turned, they noticed I was there, holding a rope menacingly. "Pause" I said, as the man reached into his boot. I scurried over to his boot and steadily pulled out a taser. "Sneaky.." I muttered, feeling the other mans boots. I stood where I was before, feeling a sense of placement, feeling the pain fade a little. "Play." I said, and to them it seemed like I didn't move. He reached in for nothing. "Missing this?" I said, holding it in my hand. "Pause." They all stopped. Doing it constantly made it easier, and saying 'Pause' made me feel like, "Yes, this is what I am doing" so it helps. "Play." Then they fell to the ground, immobilized by the taser in my hand. They were stunned out. I was truly surprised at how prepared they were to fight me. I searched through the heli to sadly find nothing. I took the sack and stuffed it with necessities. They started to wake up soon enough, affects weari off. I put the sack down and ran up to them. I ran by them, and once I touched them, i said "Pause." They stood there, looking at me. They held their throats as they struggled to breathe, their bodies not used to the pain of moving your muscles. I stood in my spot, watching them suffer while still touching them lightly. They were dying. "I'm doing it again...."

  "God damn."