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Chapter 4: Lost and Found - Section 15 |
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D:< Still angry for some reason. c____c Plus, my video game is hard.. ~ Forest of Angels Chapter 4: Lost and Found Section 15
TTsano stepped into the water. Tao Chi gave some sort of a struggled moan. “Please don’t let go of me, Tsano…” She whined. Tsano smiled. “I won’t.” He told her quietly. “You’ll be Ok.” The water reached up to his knees and he struggled through the bank of the surprisingly clear water. “It’s getting high.” Tao Chi said, looking over his shoulder and seeing how much they had left to go. “I don’t know if we’ll make it…!” She moaned. The water reached up to his waist. “Hold on tight, Tao Chi.” Tsano told her. “Hold on around my neck.” She shifted her weight in the water, holding onto his neck and keeping her legs crossed around his waist. “Don’t let me drown, Tsano!” She whined. “I won’t!” Tsano gritted his teeth. “Hold on.” He waded out to where his feet couldn’t touch the bottom of the water. If he could just fly over this thing he wouldn’t be in this situation! It was a little hard to carry Tao Chi on his back through the water. It was weighing him down. His face was halfway in the water, only his nose poking out. Tao Chi clung tightly to him, causing him to go under the water for a moment. “I’m sorry!” She shouted. “I won’t do it again!” He shook his head, his mouth being restricted, and meaning to say it was all right, that they’d be there soon. Indeed, they did make it to the edge of the water in a few minutes. Tsano was exhausted, falling to his knees on the sandy bank of the stream. Tao Chi crawled off his back and stood on the grass. “Are you Ok?” Tao Chi asked. “I’m sorry that I can’t swim!” She cried. “It was all my fault…” Tsano panted for a few moments before shaking his head. “At least we’re away from those soldiers.” He huffed. “The water should have washed off our scent, so those dogs won’t be able to find us for a while either.” He looked up and smiled, taking Tao Chi’s hand that she was extending to him to help him up.
A half an hour later they had a fire burning with fish roasting over it; they hadn’t eaten in days after that dungeon. Tao Chi had used magic to make two large sleeping bags. “Where’d you learn how to do that?” Tsano asked in amazement. “My…mom.” She said softly. He looked down, remembering she had told him her parents had died in an accident and he didn’t inquire about it further. They had settled down to sleep not too long afterwards, putting out the fire as to not attract anyone or anything. Tao Chi was asleep in her cozy, squishy sleeping bag already, the light of the embers from the fire still playing against her face and casting her into odd, flickering shadows. Tsano was sitting up, halfway in his sleeping bag, staring at Tao Chi but not really seeing her. He was thinking. If he could escape now and leave Tao Chi behind, he would make it, but… something inside him didn’t want to leave Tao Chi behind with those people. It was an odd feeling, and he couldn’t quite put his finger on it… “You Ok?” Tao Chi asked. Tsano jumped slightly, realizing she was awake. He looked away, rubbing his forehead. “Yeah.” He muttered. “I’ve just got…a headache.” He lied. Tao Chi sat up, rubbing her eyes and staring at him, smiling sleepily. “You’ll be Ok.” She said. “Is there something wrong?” He shook his head, trying to smile. “No, I’m just thinking, that’s all.” He turned back to look at her. “It’s nothing. Go back to sleep, Tao Chi.” She scooted over to him, leaning her head on his shoulder drowsily. “I told you to call me Tao, didn’t I?” She asked. Tsano didn’t answer, leaning over to put the coals out, using water from his hands. He was better at using light, that was for sure, but that wasn’t the only brand of Magic he could use. Tao Chi stirred uncomfortably, looking away from the water. As the light from the coals went out they were again in darkness. Tsano looked around at the surrounding trees, adjusting to how dark the night really was. As he did so, he noticed that bluish light was filtering through the branches and the cracks betweem the trees that were crowded around them. It looked nostalgic and eerie, yet mystical and peaceful. “Wow…” Tao breathed. “Look at that.” She whispered. Both she and Tsano fell on their backs and stared at the canopy above them. There was a space in the tree’s branches and leaves high above them both where stars shone bright from the heavens. The moon was a lovely ark over their heads, shining ivory in the sky. “I can’t believe this is the same gloomy forest.” Tao said, looking over at Tsano. He nodded. “It’s amazing.” Fireflies bobbed over their heads, but they weren’t like the fireflies Tsano knew that came in the summer. It was near winter, fireflies never came in the winter. They shone white and pale blue instead of orange and red, maybe the occasional green. It was odd. “This is crazy.” Tao said. He nodded. She yawned. “Thanks for…waking me up…to see…” She scooted beside him, yawning again. He stared at her. She was still just a little kid, maybe only twelve or thirteen years old, yet she’d been through so much. Suddenly the forest around them was alight with movement. Tsano sat bolt upright, Tao following doing the same a second later, slightly slower. “What’s going on?” She asked. Tsano stood up, shushing her. “Keep quiet…” Looming shapes appeared around them, rendering them completely surrounded, as the swaying firelight of torches from the croud illuminated the clearing...
[Meko-Chan] · Sun Oct 15, 2006 @ 03:02am · 2 Comments |
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