Suddenly a pang of heat dispersed to every corner of my body.
And just as I thought I couldn't feel any worse the sun beamed rays of searing, white light directly towards my pupil, painfully blinding me as I stretched my words.
As if maybe it burned out of curiosity for my answer. Or perhaps that was me.
I didn't exactly know myself.
“You see, I offer protection to those animals for the exchange of them doing whatever I ask.”
There was calm before their violent whine grated my ears as though a fork being scraped along a glass surface.
Were they laughing at me?
“What the heck! Why are you laughing?It was you who asked.”
After settling themselves, the scarred brother described the animals as stupid for putting their lives in the hand of another person.
I secretly agreed with them.
