Impostor Alert

She came awake suddenly, jarringly. She hit the seat in front of her hard. People were screaming all around her and she quickly realised that the bus must have hit something and now it was airborne. Her arms flailed, searching for something to grab onto. The bus’s airborne state was temporary and all too soon it hit the ground. In those moments immediately after the accident, Inyene was acutely aware of herself and her surroundings. The loud grinding of metal had stopped and was replaced for a heartbeat with relative silence, broken only by a soft hiss coming from the front of the vehicle.