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"...Different species, have different towns and different traditions. Waving in the elven village is a sign of disrespect. Speaking english without asking if the listener understands is a sign of disrespect in the west fae village. The elves in our town have different traditions. Don’t assume you know anything or you might just get us all killed. We leave a day break” he finishes his speech and walks away leaving the rest of them in that spot.
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“Are we supposed to sleep on the ground? Reiss asks, looking around.
“No no no, of course not, there’s a five star hotel in the middle of nowhere”
“Shut up, why don’t we just sleep at the apartment, then leave in the morning?”
“That portal opens only at night and it cuts off 20% of the trip, passing through that” Alex says,
dropping the pile of dry branches he had found on the ground, putting them together to make a campfire.
“Myra” he beckoned after he had made a big enough pile. She set it ablaze with her hands and the fire is magnificent..
“All the bloody times we rubbed sticks together when we went camping” Reiss muttered under her breath walking to a spot, clearing leaves away and laying down some of her clothes to form an impromptu bed.
“I hope you’re all gone when I wake up”
THEY WEREN’T. She woke up before daybreak, everyone but Naheem was asleep.
“Had a nightmare?” she asked, trying but failing not to sound sarcastic.
“Actually…” he trails off
“Oh” Insert awkward silence
“Wanna go for a walk, before the rest wake up?”
“Are you planning to kill me in the forest?”
“It might happen but no plans thus far”
“I’ll take it”
"Why are you so hell bent on getting the girl back?"
Why shouldn't I be! Everyone except Alexander is making me feel like I'm doing something crazy or out of this world. This is the human thing to do..."
"Exactly human, which we are not."
"I'm beginning to understand that" she sighs "Wanna talk about it?"
"
What?"
"The nightmare ?
"Nah... let's do something fun. I want to show you how to make fire!
"What ?!?!"
"Come,come,it'll be fun"
"I can't make fire" she says, putting the last 2 words in air quotes.
"Do you want to learn? Actually, I don't know if that's your element, but let’s try”
She seems weary at first, but follows him as he trails off.
“Where are we going?” she asks, they had been walking for ten minutes.
“Calm your hormones, woman!” he exclaims
“That makes no sense dude! I think..." they stop walking "Now what?"
"We sit" he says plopping down on the Floor crossing his legs "Come on, don't be scared"
She follows suit "okay..."
"Okay! Normally I wouldn't recommend using negative emotions to fuel your powers but your necklace is a big hindrance, but as you showed before, not strong enough to stop you. #GirlPower
"Why not ..."
"Nope, If we are going to be traveling through the forest, I doubt you being unconscious would be beneficial. Let's try this with it on, I'll give you a bit of a shove, if you feel uncomfortable, just say so and I'll stop. Okay"
“This isn't going to work but okay"
"Have you ever gotten so angry that you started feeling heat in your chest”
“Umm… I think so”
“Okay, what happened? I want you to remember that day, that event, close your eyes, tell me what happened, every detail, how it made you feel”
"Okay... It was a Sunday... I went for a walk through the woods. I did that every Sunday, after publishing my Sunday article. I always loved being in nature. I got to this spot, there was a log I sat on, it was my halfway mark. Then I saw a chicken wandering around with its chicks trailing after it, picking at crumbs, it was so cute, the mother was so thin, but the kids were plum, you could see them stumble across a crocker and she pecks at it, breaking it and the chicks swarm it, taking pieces and going crazy on them while she sits waiting for them to finish and then they continue to walk around, and they repeat the process. Then an old man walks in the general area, he is facing me, but he can't see me. He has a few slices of bread in his hand and he offers it to the hen. But he doesn't walk away, he just stands there. The hen seemed wary but she approaches and just as she's about to pick the bread a huge stick, the length and double the width of an arm comes down on the hens' back and from where I sat you could here the bones break, then his laughter then the chicks clucking and I could see them running away in fear, and I was frozen in place, the hen was still, I thought it was dead but one of the chicks ran towards it and the man attacked it too, laughing maniacally, the hen saw its chick being attacked and flapped its wings trying to get up, the feathers falling as it struggled but it didn't stop. The man stepped on the chick crushing it completely and all will power left the hen, she just laid there and the man whacked it a few more times and carried it away, leaving the chicks' dead body there. I didn’t know what pissed me off more, the man’s actions or the fact that I just sat there frozen, powerless”
“Powerless”
“Do you feel it? That feeling, imagine what you could have done to save that helpless creature, but you just sat there watching, doing nothing, useless. You watched it die, you watched its child die, so cruelly, so inhumane and you could have done something, but you didn’t. You. Were. Powerless”
“It wasn’t my fault, I didn’t kill it”
“But you didn’t do anything”
“It wasn’t my fault”
“You didn’t kidnap the girl either, but there she is, another helpless creature. What do you plan to do when you get there? Sit there, powerless, and watch another helpless creature die?”
“STOP IT! ” shescremed, her eyes shot open and then he screamed again, all around her, everything was frozen, including the person sitting in front of her.
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