Drabble: Taxis

[electricalgwen]

This is really a reach for the prompt "tax, taxi, taxing etc." at open_on_sunday.

Taxis

It’s dark. Really dark. Blink your eyes and strain your vision but there’s nothing to be seen dark. Where the hell is he? Can’t be his room, the curtains never shut properly.

His head hurts. Did he get drunk last night? He can’t actually remember much of anything. Definitely feels hungover, though. He’s desperately thirsty, and his mouth tastes like something died in it.

He reaches out to grope for a lightswitch. His hand hits wood, not six inches from his face.

Instinct quells panic. Wood splinters and he burrows up through the soil, drawn by the promise of nourishment.


taxis (n): reflex translational or orientational movement by a freely motile and usually simple organism in relation to a source of stimulation

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[electricalgwen.livejournal.com]

Haha, yeah. I wrote the drabble just thinking of the movement along a gradient (of light, chemicals, whatever) and then went looking for a definition. That one won out, when I saw the "usually simple"!

Waking up in, and digging your way out of, your own grave must be a pretty horrific event...