A) part 1

The trees shivered, flexuous as a green skin over the wind's
muscles. She watched from her tower, pressing her hand to the stilled
liquid of the window glass as the storm's fever took hold.
Rain lashed at her palm as if trying to catch it, draw her out into the
wild. Something in her ached to do so, to loose her fear as a leaf torn
from a twig.
Inside the air was sleeping, musty, the boards of the floor dry. Stiff
tongues that could not speak to her.
"CRACK" Pain ripped her chest, she caught her breath, peering out into
the raging night, hands shutting out the light behind, but couldn't see
which had fallen. In her mind flashed a memory of the great beech,
arched over her like a protective angel.
Or was it the sycamore? Bark scaled with lichen and moss richer hued
than any animal pelt? Or one of the oaks, graze rough trunks and
branches too old and obdurate to bend to a wind like this?
And what of the animals, birds, insects? Their home become a maw of
clashing teeth, the air they breathed, scented for prey or danger now
an heedless tongue smashing all to the unmoved ground
Snake sinnuous wind whistled round the tower. She felt trapped and
exhilarated at once, as if dancing with a dangerous yet beautiful
man.
The room was a skull and she the only thought within it, straining to
escape.
She twirled round the floor, arms out, filled with the sound of
emptiness

She stopped. The wind was just as loud, but suddenly she was separate,
human. As though she'd fallen to earth, she lost her balance, sunk
dizzy to the floor beside the wide flat copper bowl that held her
scrying water.

The water seemed tense as a slammed door. She sensed there was
something important on the other side. Something life changing.
The wind shrieked. If it had been calm, peaceful, maybe she would have
thought about what she was doing, would not have reached out, stirred
the cold dark film. Even as the flakes of light settled she was unsure,
about to turn away,back into the turgid room she knew so well. But then
the face formed, and she couldn't look away