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Nice rain, eh?
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Forest of Angels
Chapter 5: Cleared
Section 1
THE SURROUNDING PEOPLE made a grab for Tsano, toppling over each other as he shot into the sky.
“Hold on tight, Tao!” He shouted, staring down at the crowd below. He tore his eyes from the scene, gliding as fast as he could to somewhere far away.
Tao stared at him, not breathing. This boy…This boy…HE was the one she’d been searching for all this time? HE’D TRICKED HER.
Ever since her parents and her sister had died in that accident, and she’d had no one to turn to, she had searched for the Angel she’d met when she was very small. She’d traveled everywhere, she’d even met the Princess, Uri was her name, and became best friends with her. She was the one she’d been walking around with when she’d first met Tsano.
And she’d been with Tsano, TSANO, the Angel, this whole time?
Something jammed in her head, as if from a past life. Tsano…Tsano… Why hadn’t she realized it before? The Angel’s name was Tsano, that’s what she’d told her all those years ago! She was so stupid!
“This place should be safe…”
Tao blinked up at him, remembering they were both in danger.
“Sorry…” Tao muttered. “What?”
Tsano didn’t look at her. He banked back into the trees, hovering for a moment, then letting Tao down.
She looked at him, unblinkingly.
He cast his gaze downward guiltily. “Look, I…”
Tao bit her lip. “How come you never told me!?” She moved forward and slapped Tsano across the face. He blinked, stunned, his hand rising to his cheek. She was now crying angrily at Tsano.
“I’m sorry.” He told her quietly.
“You don’t even know what’s happened since I saw you last!”
“…I’m sorry.”
She glared at him, wiping her eyes. “Stop apologizing.” Tao told him sternly.
Tsano smiled slightly.
Tao smiled, choking, surprising her self as she seemed to forgive him so quickly. She normally was a very harsh person when she was angry at someone. “Let's just go to sleep.” She muttered. “I'll get angry at you later, so don't think you've gotten off!” She waved her finger menacingly at him.
Tao went to sleep not too long after that, like she was trying to avoid conversation, like she wasn’t ready to give reasons yet for her actions and words. That was fine with Tsano. He didn’t think he was entirely ready either.
She was asleep at the base of a tree where Tsano was sitting on one of the branches, a human once more, prepared for any attack. He knew people wouldn’t be looking for him here, in the forest. They would think he’d gone off somewhere else, or was still flying away as far as possible, but...
Tsano’s eyes began to droop after an hour of keeping watch. He considered waking up Tao, but he couldn’t bring himself to do it. He didn’t want to face her right now.
His head nodded slowly. He was drifting off, falling against the tree’s trunk, still on a branch. Rain began to fall lightly as the sound of Tao’s breathing and the pat of falling water dimmed in his ears. The leaves above him in the tree swam in and out of focus.
He closed his eyes, if only for a minute…
Three people looked at them through the trees.
“Is that him?” One whispered.
“Duh, of course that’s him.” Another hissed back. “You saw it with your own eyes, he’s the Angel.”
“Yeah, but he looks so much more different than he did in Olivand’s manor.”
“There was a spell on that Forest that made him look like a child, the way he did before it was burned down.”
“He’s almost as old as I am. What’s your guess on how old he is? Fifteen? Sixteen?”
The other two ignored that question.
“Why was the Forest burned down?”
“Well, that’s what Uri wants to find out, really. Come on, I’ll take the girl and you two take the boy, the Angel. We need to hurry.”
 [Meko-Chan] · Thu Oct 19, 2006 @ 06:55pm · 2 Comments |
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