Sloane
A dark silhouette stood in front of me. His slender hand stood out as an offer of assistance. Hesitation.
"We don't have all day" he says about to take it back. I cautiously accept it. Once my hand was in his grip, he brought my body closer leaving a whisper in my ear "The one to kill you will be me. No one else..." he trailed off with a smile. His breath tickled down my neck or am I imagining it. Why is he so close? Somehow, I could feel temperature of his skin as if the water did not act as a barrier.
"In the end, you'll be my kill. Only Mine..." his words rung through my brain.
Claiming me as prey
A trophy
A prize that will satisfy his hatred.
"And mine alone. Make note of this, Princess" hearing him say this did nothing to me.
It must be nothing.
He lets go of me as I attempted to find good balance.
A threat that must be exterminated
Change my brain chemistry.
It's nothing.
My hand found his again but this time I call the shots pulling him closer to me unexpectedly. 'Why am I doing this to myself' my mind called out.
"In your final moments" I started off in his ear. Let him heed my words.
"Scars and bruises will suit you well with your last breath" I step back staring into his freckled nomad eyes with no fear. No remorse. No mercy...
Condescending what he is. Dirt on my boots. I don't like him. I don't despise many things, but I can make an exception for this Maverick. He tilts my head up by the chin and smirks before saying" Make sure to leave a few good ones so ill have something to remember you by" I let go of his hand claiming my head back. I pushed pass him keeping the gemstone in my hand. The other's found us in the throne room noticing all the bodies on the floor that are either dead or unconscious. I placed my hand on their head; a small light could be visibly shown on their forehead. "Hopefully, you find your way home to the creator" I said not paying Maverick any mind. He rolls his eyes at my actions "As if he would want them now "he remarked, I could sense his eyes on me.
I scoffed standing up looking at him now passing the stone over to Kylian which he puts in bag with the other gemstone. When it left my hand, I would feel a sense lack of power. Back to the matter at hand: Maverick.
"I thought you didn't believe in God" I brought up waiting for his answer. Maverick starts to walk out of the throne room while saying "I don't, they are damned just like me" he walks out not looking back. I question can he truly be? Has my hate gotten in the way?
I won't help him...
But you should put your grudge on the side.
Love your neighbor as I love you.
I sighed watching him "How when we are at each other's throats" the words left my mouth softly. This is going to be a hard one to jump over, Lord.
You'll find a way...Trust in me.
Kylian looks over at Askia who was not pleased with what has occurred today. The gemstone was taken out by Maverick before he 'saved' me.
"Leave now!" she swims over to us pushing us with a current to get us out of the room and slams the stone doors shut. We made our way-out finding Vera with a new traveler and Maverick leaning on a tree.
The rock closed behind us. Pictures of us appeared on the rock with not welcoming letters on them; Don't come back! Ever!
Vera started laughing stumbling a couple times, but siren placed his hands on her shoulders to keep her still. "Yay, we got kicked out. Firstieeee" Vera giggles holding up her hands about to run but the siren stops her from doing so.
I walked over to her taking waft of her breath that reeked of alcohol and glances over to this new passenger.
"That might be my doing. I'm Jayden, Vera here said I could join if you don't mind" he requested. A smiled appeared on my face and started walking as Lotus followed me.
"Of course. Getting to know you guys will be fun. Vera has a knack of finding people, so I trust her" she said. Vera happened to run into the crow we released a couple days ago, who was passed out on Lotus. They must have been drinking together. During the two days where Vera and I had to share a room, we talked about a lot of things. I never really had a woman friend growing up other than Iyana, but our relationship is different. The griffon's needed to rest and run around for a bit since we've been traveling a lot in the past couple of days.
We've been walking for a good four hours. I thought it would be best to leave the village to confuse our trail for anything or anyone that is following us. Kylian agreed with me.
Vera stumbles into me causing me to stop and held onto her "We'll camp here for the rest of the day. Get comfortable" I announced gently sitting her down on a rock. She started muttering something under her breathe, her face was still red. Our camping grounds were near a waterfall. Access to clean water. I kneel in front of her placing a hand on her cheek feeling its warmth. Today has been a day.
"I'll grab us some firewood and you can grab the stones" Kylian declared to Jayden to follow him before giving Maverick a look: I'm watching you. I started to set up camp with the tools and supplies in Lotus's bag.
Along night a waits us.
Jayden skips over to Kylian smiling "Anything you say big man. Ooo, you work out, nice" he said bring his ectomorph body by Kylian's as they walked away. He trusts me but not Maverick.
After I was done setting up places for us to sleep; Two tents and a hammock that made with a bunch of large leaves. I grabbed some water in a bowl from the lake and gave it to Vera and the crow to drink.
Vera grabbed the bowl drinking most of it before the crow snatched it "Leave some for the rest of us" she growled side eyeing Vera. The clairvoyant slumps over herself throwing her right arm up in the direction of the lake while swaying back and forth "There is a hole... ugh lake. Give me that" she whined pulling on the bowl trying to get it from the Crow.
They started yelling at each other in their drunken state rolling to the ground. I shook my head looking up at the sky. Deep breathe in and deep breathe out. I closed my eyes. Wash out all the noise.
Open your eyes...
My vision comes into play. He's looking at me. Again.
"Is there something on my face that you like?" I asked facing him from a distance.
Maverick nudges his head crossing his arm and adjusts himself against the tree. For a few moments, silence conversated more than we did. Thoughts of that day when I fell into that hole with him...
I woke up on top of Maverick, who was unconscious. There was nothing in sight, hints of dark and light scattered around. I glanced down at him noticing he was bleeding from his leg. A heavy sigh escapes my mouth to refuse the matter, but my heart had other ideas. I ripped a piece my shirt that happened to be the same color as his shirt. A piece of his shirt was already gone from the fall. I tucked in the loose fabric hiding it and wrapped the extra material over his wound.
Idiot.
I stayed in a kneeling position watching him for a moment to make sure he wasn't going to try anything.
"He looks peaceful... Yeah right..." I trailed off standing up and made my way over to entrance of the hole we fell from. In his unconscious state, he began muttering something about himself and began to be afraid almost.
Did he play me back then? Is he doing that right now?
Was it all a trick? Did he truly wanted to end Oasis?
Then it felt so simple then, why? I snapped out of my thought looking at Maverick, still against that tree.
"Naiveness...just visualizing where to land my shot" he said pushing his body off the tree and walks away to do his own thing.
The Crow yelled drunkenly to Vera "did you just bit me" and I started laughing "I'll grab you any another bowl, calm down".
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