2. The morning After

Athan

I put on the lamp on the shelf to brighten the room, it was already day break but on some days the weather wasn't very clear, so the lamp illuminated the room.

She had slept through the night and I didn't bother waking her.

I was still figuring out how to go about this dire situation, the only thing I had done through the night was to cover her with the duvet, now it was morning and I needed answers.

I shook her slightly and she stifled a yawn and look straight In my eyes, not saying anything. I have to break the silence.

"Are you okay?"

"Can I get you something to eat or drink?"

She didn't answer, she just stared at me for a moment, stood up and went outside to the porch.

What the hell? Is she deaf or something?

Before I could think, she wore the dark grey slippers she had worn the night before and started walking.

Ailthia

Obviously I don't know where I am going, but all I know is that I have to get away from this place as quickly as I can,

Why the hell did I spend the night at a stranger's house?

Possibly because my higher sense didn't sense danger or attack around him, only confusion, ignorance and curiosity.

No matter how good his intentions are or whatever his reasons he had for letting me stay overnight, curiosity still remains one of the deadliest of human qualities.

The need to know more, figure out things, and get answers to questions that should have been left answered has caused every damn thing happening in humanity today.

I have nowhere to go, the sky is clear enough I need to find some place else to go, this'll could be a lot easier if I know where I am, my internal GPS Alexi takes a toll on me and am not sure I can handle another faint right now, but she's my last resort.

"Alexi"?

I can feel the screeching in my head as she came on, like zapping of computers.

I feel my head's gonna burst anytime soon...

"Aia?"

"Alexi, where am I?"

My senses are navigating, calculating with everything in it. I am sweating seriously now

Gosh! if she doesn't talk now I'm going to officially die, you'd think I had been trained for circumstances like this, I have actually but been trained and doing it are two world's apart.

"Aia, can't figure out location"

"Are you crazy, Alexi you're a godamn GPS it's basically your work to figure out locations"

"Well I can't figure this one out, so goodbye"

Just like that the bitch turned off her systems and shut down, God am really gonna die.

I increased my pace now and broke into a run once I figured out that he was following me at increasing speed. Damn! he is a good sprinter, my body is starting to feel weird again no! no! no! I can't pass out again, losing concentration for a moment I didn't see the falling branch on my path, the last thing I remember is falling, falling and then nothing.

*

Athan

It's either she isn't tired or she is a track runner, or both.

As I considered turning back I heard a thud on the floor and I ran faster- oh no! she fell, I lay her on the branch and drew my ear close to her chest, she's breathing but lightly her pulse is weak but she's not dead- she'll live.

I lifted her on my shoulder and headed to the house, I don't know why I feel an urge to help her even if she clearly shows she doesn't need it.

I'll find out that later, but right now

she needs a doc.

I wasn't the best around and I don't have much skill, but at least I can do something.

*

Knight

I stumbled from my bed, the pain in my abdomen making me cringe my feet.

why the heck was there so much noise anyway?

I checked my alarm, it was 7:56 shit! I was almost late for school...I better get ready or I am gonna be in deep trouble, but first I have to found out where the noise is coming from.

As I stood up, the pain in my abdomen intensified I stood still fit for a moment and closed my eyes, I concentrated and slowly I can feel the pain go away.

Following my ears I traced where the noise was coming from....noooo not again!, mom and stepdad were fighting, except it wasn't much of a fight since Dad was beating mom...

Caleb was on the floor, whimpering and shaking quietly holding his hand in his wrist, he had obviously tried to stop a war, didn't do him much good.

I am so angry, I felt my blood boil and the zapping of light at my fingertips, I am losing control.

I hated my step dad but I was mad at mom too, over the past few months Caleb and I had gotten used to their constant yelling and fighting, but hurting my little brother was way past the line.

I rushed to the fringe to get an icepack and placed it on Caleb's wrist and use the handkerchief to bandage the wound. I don't even know what I am doing, cos it's hard to concentrate, the sound of dad raining abuses on mom was defeaning, the room seem to spin around me and I can't take it anymore.

I walk over to both of them and I scream. I scream so loud I could hear the shattering of the glass as the shards pierce my skin, the building was shaking, the walls were closing in around me but I wasn't there anymore.

I was practically in another world, the feeling is ethereal, l feel so light weighted with the energy surging through my veins.

I was still screaming so loud the hairs on my skin stood up, my veins streaching so hard, it looked like green thin lined trees threatening to break free from their roots...and then I fell. Dad seemed to have stopped shouting, mom was crying and I couldn't see Caleb anywhere, everything had turned blank.