Her hair was blotched with red and strands were stuck together while dancing in the soft breeze. The moonlight reflected on her hair like she was the only human alive. Her cloths, befouled with blood but looked as natural on her as a butterfly with coloured wings. Her legs were free of the stains and her bare feet covered by the swaying grass. Her hair frames her facial features, faintly also with blood. In her delicate hands was a knife, shining in the moonlight and blood dripping of it slowly, as if to taunt me. She looked like the Valkyrie, done after killing, no remorse for the deaths at all. The smile that she held, one of maturity, experience and emptiness. There was nothing there. It was as if she was so use to the sight of death there was no sight needed any longer. What was also unsettling was the fact that she wasn't even looking at me. Her gaze went into my eyes but she wasn't looking at me, rather through me. As if I wasn't even there. White flashed before my eyes and suddenly I was right back in my bed, siting upright, where I started. Perspiration Was in visible droplets on my forehead and my breathing was noticeably ragged. This time everything matched up. It was morning and the sun was up, everyone was still in bed and the eerie feelings were gone. Like they never existed. Because they didn't.
I'm so childish, I can even get caught up in a nightmare at my age.
"Why are you sweating?"
Eleanor woke up and asked as she rubbed her eyes. No blood on her whatsoever or any knife in sight. She finished rubbing and had a good look at me.
"Did the big confident stallion have a nightmare?"
Now she was just teasing me, not even bothering to hide it as she let out a giggle which seemed to have woken the tigers.
"Morning Foxy,"
"Stallion, did you really sweat that hard from a nightmare?"
"Our confident leader, disturbed in his sleep by his own subconscious,"
"What was the dream about?"
As usually the conversation started with Keung and they took turns with each sentence. Now even they were teasing me.
"Aren't you going to leave me with any of my dignity?"
"Tell us, I'm curious as well,"
She looked at me with a cocked head and big eyes.
I hesitated as I remembered her bloody form, but spoke out with flowing words.
"It's nothing important, don't remember most of it anyways,"
"Your such a conversation killer,"
Now she was going to pout? Fine. Unlike me the tigers just chuckled at her childish reaction. She was the youngest one after all.
After I got ready and was in a new change of cloths that came from the already prepared wardrobe that had all our sizes exact to the point I went to the door of the room in habit, ready to leave. I got stared at along the way but didn't bother to think further in. Then I felt like an idiot as the door handle did not push down any further because we were locked in. Grounded, right, we were grounded. I turned around to face the stares of judgement and got laughter instead. I scratched the back of my head awkwardly and walk back to sit on the bed. That was another thing that didn't make sense in the dream, we were grounded but everyone was outside and the door wasn't locked. I should stop think about that dream, it was more of a nightmare but that makes me sound like a child. Then again I technically still am a child, though 14 is nothing to laugh at, I'm still a teenager, a quickly maturing one at that. Think of age my birthday which was only barely remembered resurfaced.
"Hey, what's the date today?"
"4th of February!"
The first tiger answered with a wide eyes.
That didn't match up though!
"Did we over sleep an entire day? Just to wake up the morning the day after."
The second tiger spoke louder then the first.
Out of habit I looked around the room thinking about the outrageous thing. We all had body clocks, we didn't overexert ourselves in anything. Yet we overslept an entire day and woke up when the sun was already up.
I walked to the window next to the door to look outside, I don't know why but it was probably just for some self confirmation. I didn't believe it. Why didn't I believe anything these days. I sighed and my disheveled white blond hair hung in front of my eyes. How long has it been since I've brushed this unruly birds next known as my hair? As I though back I cringe and stopped that line of thought as I answered myself. More then a week? Maybe 2?
I went back to my bed over the carpet in the centre. Something was under it, but what? It was only tiny but I could feel it over one step. On the exterior I only blinked at the carpet as it taken a photograph with my eyes on where the disturbance was. I looked to the side to see pursed lips on Fox's pale face. I'll go back to it later, no need to attract the attention of the whole group. Dominic was looking around the window as well, probably wondering how we overslept by a day. All of us as well, it couldn't of just been a coincidence. He sat there in a troubled position and looked out the window in a subtle desperation of an answer. The twins sat back to back on the carpet floor in relaxed positions but there face said anything but, at first glance they just looked tired and found life troublesome but upon further inspection they too were confused and did not like what they were feeling. Eleanor was on her bed playing with her fingers and had a look of confusion on her face, it was obvious to tell with her because she wore her heart on her sleeve. But I do wonder, did she know something about it, she knew about the thing under the carpet, there was a very likely chance that she was the one who put whatever it was under the carpet. The emotions on her face also went into various degrees of on to almost off. Could she be faking it? I'm starting to doubt her emotions. Best course of action is for things to continue how they were and not to voice my opinion. Otherwise trust issues can't arise and cause unnecessary commotion. If there was to be a mastermind behind this whole thing then a commotion is exactly what he/she would want and since following orders goes against my nature it's better to just give them the opposite. A bit of peace and quiet is needed as of now.