The Peculiar Young Lad

"Will she make it?"

"She has not woken up for a week. Who is supposed to take over the clan now?"

"There is still a great chance that she will wake up."

Small voices from the blood rabbits filled the large room where Elisha hid all of them. It was an old-fashioned lodge with only a pair of an old couple and their granddaughter to serve them. Five blood rabbits and seven fox beasts, that is all that remained from their team. As she snuck out of the room where they laid Laia, she looked at the small hill on the side of town. There were seven small mounds of freshly dug earth with rings of flowers on top of each mound. She caressed the petals as tears started brimming at the edge of her eyes. 

Dylan and Yudriel's face came into her mind. Now silenced under the earth, she vowed to fulfill the duty to their clan as she gave a silent prayer to their comrades who have fallen from the battle.