I woke up or you could say I was tossed out of my dream by someone, the sun bright beams prevented me from getting hold of my surroundings which is definitely different from Petar. I brought unwanted attention to myself because everybody was staring at me, Ade came to my direction, he looked more human than when I saw him in the shade. I guess the dark highlighted his inhuman nature. “Oh look who have finally decided to joined us, I thought you were going sleep the whole journey.” Hearing that had me a little embarrassed, my cheeks were hot. I looked at him, and he shook his head. “Well since you are back and all healed, you can walk yourself this time.” That was his parting words with me as he head back to the frontline leading the group. “And oh, you better thank her, she’s the one that carried you for three days straight.” There was a girl next to me, she’s most likely the one because every other person gave me a good visible distance . She looked normal, nothing noticeable about her no green veins spouting out of the skins, the only eye grabbing thing about her was perfectly tanned skin. She hardly stays indoors I guess. “ Umm thanks.” I have to repay my debt somehow, I hope that time comes soon. “You don’t have to repay anything I was just helping a sick person.” Holy shit I forgot about the mind reading thing, realizing that made my cheeks burn red to my ears. “you have to work on that mind of yours, your thoughts are just flying everywhere.” She said it without even looking at me, while others have been glaring back at my direction. “I don’t know how to control it.” Since this power thing just happened in the last eighty hours. “Don’t worry I’ll teach you how to control it, only if you decide to give up on that pay back stuff.” Okay we have a deal. I bet she heard that too because a smirk spread across her lips. She looked a little bit older than me, her appearance seems roughened by experiences. I wonder how she became like this. I shut down my thoughts because it felt like an open radio to them. The scenery around me is so different from greenish pastures in Petar, everything here is devoid of life, dried up and stony. We continued further for five hours without rest, none of them looked worn out but my legs were killing me. They don’t seem bothered by anything because of their inhuman nature but I’m very human, I felt like screaming at the top of my lungs inside my mind so that their ears might bleed. But that’ll be greedy of me, they helped me even though they didn’t need to, it’s not like I’m one of them and most of them seems irritated by me, asking them to stop will be selfish of me I guess. But my legs hurts so fucking bad I’m can’t even feel them and the sun is making me feel dizzy. . A voice spoke straight into my mind and it was familiar, if I continue with this I’m going to be in a lifelong debt.

I’m really not in the mood to argue or ponder what her motives are, I just need to escape this pain right now. Her back was soft for a person with a noticeable amount of muscles. It was tender and warm. It reminds me of….. I wonder if she’s ok, did she leave Petar? The blood was hers, none of them were injured when I went there. How deep are the wounds? The blood was much, did she get help? Will anyone even bother to help her with the chaos, they’ll all try to save themselves. This was all my fault if I had been there things would have been different, I’m a terrible person, Nei isn’t the only one that got caught in the blast my friends were…. Our friends. But I can only think about her, I have to go back and look for her. She’s strong and won’t fall to a silly green gas like me. She must be out there waiting for me, I just need to regain some strength to move my legs then I’ll go back. The grip around my legs got tightened and felt like my bones were about to get crushed. < I didn’t carry you all the way from Petar for you to go back there> Her voice was stiff and lacked the soft tone of earlier. “You know it’s rude to peek inside someone's thoughts” I didn’t have anything to say and don’t want to argue and I’m scared of being dropped and forced to walk on my own. I have to change the conversation quickly, the piggyback ride was relaxing and it gave me a clear mind to think. I drew closer to her, my nose touching her neck, the smell of sweat mixed with a scented ointment I couldn’t put a name on caressed my nose. My mouth close to her ear whispered “You smell good.” I don't know if it was a ploy to change the conversation or she just smelled really good. Maybe I just love the way she smelled but her facial expression did not change it was still the same. It’s just like she didn’t hear what I said to her or she knew I was trying to change the topic. I couldn’t reply to her, I didn't know what to say. < You owe me quite a lot and I’m going to see that you get that debt paid as soon as possible.> But weren’t you the one that said you don’t care about that stuff? I didn’t reply. It could escalate to something more troublesome if I did. The sun beam strikes my skin furiously, the clothes I’m wearing gave more ways for the sun rays to hit me which was different from the clothes I had earlier. It got covered in blood I guess, it left them no choice than to change it. My vision got blurred and eyelids became heavy. I woke up with my back on the ground, the sky was clear and vibrant, no single clouds were there to obstruct its vibrant color. But my view was obstructed by the carton color hair tanned girl above me who has my left leg in her hands. How long has she been there? Was she watching me sleep all this time? And I definitely didn’t wake up because my leg was in her hands which was weird. Her dark sapphire colored eyes stared at me briskly as she placed her hands on my knee and ankle, I tried to talk but my throat felt stiff. She did something to it. Brute force was applied to both sides of my joint followed by a crushing sound, my leg was bent to a place that it shouldn’t bend to. I tried to scream but nothing came out of my throat. I could only produce tears which wet my entire cheeks. She stared at me with a blank expression, my face was twisted with pain. A smile spreads across her face like she’s enjoying the pain I’m experiencing. It became clear to me that I have fallen into her trap and may never get out.

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