Bladed Wings by Amaris Chapman

Author:Amaris Chapman [Chapman, Amaris]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-04-20T05:00:00+00:00

I slept soundly knowing that my friends were watching over me but couldn’t stop the flashes of Michael’s dead, blank, staring eyes from my dreams. At one point I awoke to see a ghostly figure glide beneath the trees around the fire, but passed it up as a trick of the light.

It was morning when I woke again. I felt bad for not relieving Trina during the night but when I sat up I found that she had gone from her post and had left a small amount of cooked meat for me to eat. She returned just as I finished eating.

“You should have woken me last night, it wasn’t fair for you to miss out on rest on my account.”

“You needed to sleep, and besides, we don’t need as much sleep as humans do.”

It was odd to hear her talking about them and us like that, when only two days ago I didn’t even know that ‘they’ existed.

“So where have you been? I was worried.” I asked.

“I went to find a place where I could see further back into the forest. I couldn’t see the army though,” she added as she walked around the fire and begun strapping the horse’s saddle on.

“And Michael?” I asked, knowing what her answer was going to be.

“No sign.” She muttered tightening the straps.

We waded across the river, as it was too deep for the horse to carry us. This meant that on top of my bruises from yesterdays fight, my clothing became caked with mud from crawling up the muddy bank.

To take my mind off things Trina let me direct the horse for most of the day which was a good way to take my mind off more unpleasant thoughts. We stopped more than Trina would have liked, but I wanted to give Michael a chance to catch up. I didn’t tell Trina this or she wouldn’t have allowed the rest stops. I kept expecting him to burst out of the forest at any moment laughing and happy, to tell me that it was all going to be ok. But no matter how long we rode for, we never saw or heard any sign of him.

I was sore and stiff by the time the sun begun sink behind the hills. The forest was un-nerving me with its vastness and more so in the last hours of the day, its lack of wildlife. Shadows turned into wielding killers and rustlings became spears whistling through the trees.

“Trina?”

“Yeh Lill?”

“Why is the forest turned so quiet? It’s unnerving.”

“Mmm I noticed that too, I guess the animals were scared away by the fighting, the smell of blood spooks them a bit.” She said as she guided the horse around a tree stump. She had taken the reins from me when the trees had become denser and harder to find a path through.

“I wish they would come back, I…”

An arrow hissed past my head so close that I could feel the feathers that guided its tail catch my hair as it passed.

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