“What’s that?” says one of the
guards indicating towards Ravager.
“It’s my pet Scruffles!” I
blurt out before anyone could take in as much as a breath. If they don’t know what this shadow thing is
as much as I don’t know what it is there’s no sense for them to think they can
take him to examine and such. I’d rather
the shadow thing be mad at me for saying this than whisked off to be a test
subject for whatever the hell here.
The guard gives a funny look and
waves us on through. Thalia drops us off
at some hotel looking thing and the shadow thing and I leave the SUV as Thalia
and Chaud start heading off somewhere else.
Ravager actually looks like a man of shadows next to me as we walk in to
find our room. I can tell he seems
pretty upset about what I said in the care, but I don’t care. I don’t regret it for a minute; he can be mad
all he wants.
We make it to the same room to lay
down for bed. As soon as we enter the
room and the door shuts, he goes from being a man of shadows back to being just
a shadow thing. I don’t mind sharing the
room with him, he’s just shadows. Even
if he is mad at me for what I said, he’s not mad enough to kill me in my sleep
for what I said. I pass into a deep slumber;
I can’t think to the last time that I slept somewhere this comfortable.
I awake to Ravager blobbed in the
corner, looking content if I do say so myself.
Thalia enters the room with Chaud standing behind in the hallway with a
fairly worried look on her face.
“I talked with the Shadow Council,
they were aware of Sophie taking Skitz but they knew nothing about Sophie
taking Eva. We’ve got to find Eva.”
They
talked with Shadow Council? I have to go
see Shadow Council, I have business with them.
I will have to keep close with this group to get a chance to be near
Shadow Council. Ugh, and we’ve got to
find Sophie? I do not like the idea of
this, but I’ll help them get Eva back. As
we exit the room, Ravager goes back to the form of a shadow man and follows us
back out to the van. Chaud is messing
with some buttons and such on his bike.
“I can
track where Eva is from the communicator she’s wearing, so follow me.” Chaud
says. I’ve never quite realized before
how odd his accent is, a mix of British and Scottish to it.
We pass
back through the portal and keep driving out through the flat and grassy
lands. We make our way towards a cave
surrounded by grassy bush. Thalia says
something to herself that I just quite cannot hear from where I am sitting back
in the van. She opens her door and steps
out.
“Eva is
somewhere around here, let’s go looking through the brush to find her.” She
says to me.
I leave
out from the SUV and go poking around in the brush, it seems like it could be
the same size as the nearby cave taking forever to comb through. I hear Thalia speaking lightly to herself
again and I really don’t think that she ever thought for a moment that Eva was
even out here.
“I’m not
finding anything in these bushes,” I tell Thalia as I stand up to begin walking
back to the van.
Suddenly,
the sound of gunfire echoes from inside the cave. Thalia begins running toward the mouth of the
cave and I see shadow shoot from the van to the mouth of the cave. I’m dumbstruck by it all; they wanted to
distract me while they saved Eva. Why
even have me come with them if I couldn’t be trusted to assist them with this? I watch as Ravager blackens the cave and
Thalia multiplies herself into another and her multiple enters the cave. Suddenly, I see a figure running out of the
darkness towards me with blonde hair whipping behind her.
Sophie! Sophie comes tearing my way, grabs me and
suddenly everything starts jumping by.
One moment I see a tree by me, the next a stream, everything is jumping
so quick there is no way that we are running.
Sophie must be a teleporter!
Where is she taking me to, why is she taking me? Why could they not trust me to help
them? Because of their distrust, now I’m
captured by this frightening woman. Why
can I not break free of her?
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