Felicity said nothing and so did LiLi.
"Of who?" Aisha asked.
Both LiLi and Felicity stared at each other, they knew what Felicity wanted to say, so they was no need to let Aisha know anything, so they just kept quiet.
"Nevermind, just forget it" Felicity said and Aisha's expression changed, but she kept it cool.
"So what do you want from us?" Felicity said as she walked to the side of LiLi.
"I said, where is Perilous?" LiLi asked again.
"Even if I know, I won't tell you... " Felicity said and LiLi smiled widely. She turned to her right hand side and faced Felicity.
"You don't determine what you do for me... " LiLi said and stepped forward, inches away from Felicity, aiding the warm air that escaped her nostrils to land softly on the neck of Felicity.
"I determine that, and I also determine what I will do for you and to you" LiLi said and Felicity hesitated before she turned her neck to look at her.
"You dragged me away from my friends and... "
Felicity laughed out loud at the word "Friends".
LiLi was puzzled. She didn't know what was happening and why she laughed as such.
"Friends... " Felicity scoffed and spat out a thick saliva.
"Friends my foot!" she thundered
LiLi's right eyebrow raised, because she knew what was coming, a tutor about her life's story.
"Those so called friends you speak of, do they even exist? All that exists are morons with bad minds and brains and wicked hearts!" Felicity laughed out mockingly and LiLi stood at the same place she had been standing. "They actually exist, but they are rare"
"Rare... " Felicity whispered with a small smile on her lips.
"I like that word. And I also like your positiveness, but listen carefully to me dearly... "
Felicity turned and walked upto LiLi. Inches away, that the slightest move of any of them can make them feel the jaw or nose of the other.
"Friends don't exist!" She spat gently at LiLi's face and withdrew.
LiLi raised her hand and cleaned the little saliva making its way down the slope of her nose as she didn't get her eyes off Felicity.
"It's a shame that we once had those. But the world turned upside down and now, we live with nothing else than the belief that we don't have anything such as friends or even a family... "
That word.
Family.
It hit LiLi hard and like Felicity knew what was happening at that moment, and she didn't want to hurt LiLi's feelings or give her a bad insight of what a family is all about, so she kept quiet at that moment, with a conclusion.
"We have no family or friends. Know that"
LiLi started thinking of Leo. Joe and the rest.
She thought they were all family, but with the way Felicity is placing it now.... Something's going on in her.
Leo. Is he and the rest alright? Wait... She said they are no such thing as friends... Not even a family...
Does that...
Does that mean Leo isn't her friend or family?
Leo and the rest climbed upto the hill in silence. No one murmured, which was unlike Chloe. No one slept, unlike Salient and No one talked, Unlike Liam.
Leo went on his knees when he reached the top of the hill and the rest followed suite.
"Don't look up, or make a sound" he whispered and they all nodded.
He crept behind the hill slowly so that the sand won't make him slip off accidentally. As he raised his head to see what was behind the hill, he saw them.
The bandits or something. They weren't just four. They were about thirty something of them standing down there, tents above their heads.
A child ran out of the camping section, into his mother's arms as they hurried off out of that land.
They don't look like bandits though. They are lost.
Leo signaled the rest kneeling behind him and they stood up after his lead.
"Hey!" he shouted and they all turned.
"Run! They're coming! Quick!" a man's voice yelled as spears were drawn out of some of the men gadgets and the few families ran ahead of them.
They were slow though, because of the children amongst them.
"Wait!,... " Leo yelled with all his might but they didn't stop, instead, the people with spears walked towards them slowly.
"Wait!... " It's Ryan this time, shouting with all his might and they listened.
As he screamed at the top of his voice, Chloe couldn't restrain herself from staring at the admirable veins that popped out of his skin. She could guess with what showed on the outside that he must be muscular inside. She got too carried away, that when Ryan turned his head, her eyes met his.
She blushed profusely in embarrassment. She slowly focused her gaze on the ground and felt a cold chill run down her spine in embarrassment and fear that he may not like what she just displayed.
But the opposite happened. He tilted her head slowly and smiled widely.
"Save me more" he whispered and patted her cheek lightly then faced the people they all were dealing with.
Save him more stare? Or what?, Chloe asked herself.
She kept staring at him for a short while and then faced the situation in front of her once again.
I will, save you more, she thought.
Leo stared at them from the angle he stood at. He felt happy for Ryan and couldn't wait to get the matter off their hands so that he tease them a bit.
Before Leo could make a move or anything, a spear landed in front of him, directly in between his legs.
Liam, Salient, Chloe and Joe all stared at him, their mouths dropped in shock and pity.
Pity for what, you may ask...
Pity for the person who threw the spear because it is so obvious that the person don't know who he is dealing with.
Leo stared at the spear for a while. After, he grabbed it and pulled it out of the sand where it had made a deep hole in the surface of the ground.
Something caught his eyes. He lifted the metal head of the arrow to his eyes and stared at it.
A specific pattern of three lines, was on it. He squinted his eyes to get the pattern very well because the bright sun affected his eyes.
Ryan and the others stared at him, not minding if the people that were down the hill ran or not.
Then his eyes regained its normality after a while of squinting it and then Leo looked up with a type of force and expression that seemed like he had discovered something.
"What is it, Leo?" Salient asked. His cute voice had the sense of fear in it.
Leo didn't say anything but called out to the people again.
"Wait... !"