Excerpt to the NANO Story

So a little setting up I suppose is in order. This short piece is an excerpt that I posted on the CampNANO site. It features Rose talking to the live audience about herself, and her fear of water and why she has that fear and then she delves into the reason they are all there before it shifts over to the actual story where she meets Conner for the first time. Conner turned into a bit of a potty mouth that I was not expecting at all. Luckily it's only inside it's head, sadly it's 1st person story. 

Now I am going to be back to writing Conner chatting up the dead in school, or at least being chatted to by the dead.

Is it weird that I have a complete and utter fear of really deep water? It's got to be irritional right? I mean here I am the bearer of the Water Element and I personally can't stand it. I mean I love the rain and I am okay with taking a bath or shower but if you get me near the ocean my body sort of freezes up and a panic sets in. I can't get in pools unless they are shallow, and I mean in the sense that it's not rising above my damn waist thank you very much. I think being the water element is some sort of cosmic joke. I wasn't even always afraid of water but after an accident when I was younger it sort of just happened. 

See I almost drowned as a child, only maybe I wasn't exactly drowning. I could breath or I think I could anyways. I didn't understand it at the time but the water had been calling me to it and trying to caress me like you would a child or something. Okay it just sounds weird saying it aloud. You are a shrink though so I'm sure you've heard a lot worse in your line of work.. only maybe I shouldn't be saying this in front of a live audience. 

I bet the others were a lot more calm about this then I am being. So Hi, I'm a bit of a spaz ya. I should just tell you what you want to here. We are bad people. We wanted to hurt other people with our unnatural abilities only that isn't true. We never set out to harm anyone. We were just trying to understand ourselves and each other. We hated each other before we were thrown together, or I guess some of us did. 

There was no glue that held us together right away. Well no, there was but none of us realized it. You see there was Connor who sort of brought us all together. He's the Element of Spirit you know. I was the first one to meet him. He struck me as completely strange.