"Who are you?" Lacey demanded, in a surprisingly harsh voice. The boy squeaked as she put her spear against his throat. Silvia stood still, her surprise still in full swing.
Then she added a little pressure to her spear at the side of his neck and repeated. "Who are you?" The Boy's eyes grew even wider in fright, all color draining from his face if that was even possible.
"Why is he bound?" Lacey asked Silvia. "I don't know." Silvia replied. The boy still had not spoken. Silvia looked at him again, her spear had loosened from against his neck.
She moved it closer to Lacey's at his throat. "Who are you?" She demanded again. "I..I….I'm….Tim..Timothy….uh, Timothy Grey." He stammered in fright, an almost inaudible whisper. "And why are you here? And tied up?" She asked him.
His voice rose. "those %@#$ idiots! They tied me up and dragged me here!" He yelled, rolling his eyes, his voice rising in anger. "I would rather have stayed on the ship and cleaned, but those half wood idiots had to drag me here….."
As the boy was talking Silvia's senses told her something was coming. She glanced over at Lacey who was staring down at her yellowing dress, their eyes met, and they turned toward the rusting in the bushes not far off.
Silvia glanced down at the boy who was still going on about the men who had brought him there and gave a shake of her head as the monster came through the trees closer to where they were.
She smiled, it was one of the older ones that they had been hunting for about a month now. She jumped and pulled her spear into an attack position, Lacey followed her lead and together they ran at it.
The monster was surprised and let out a loud deep growl as it started to run straight towards them. Silvia jumped and shoved her spear right into its weakest spot, Lacey did the same and it let out a blood curdling scream as both spears went into its neck.
Silvia nodded to Lacey as she pulled her spear back out and jumped down off the beast. The dead monster lay only about 3 feet away from the boy.
He lay staring at it with shock and fear in his eyes. Lacey snickered and jumped down beside Silvia. "Let me help you with those ropes." Lacey chuckled as she kneeled down beside him and cut the ropes that bound him with her spear.
As soon as he was free, he quickly scrambled backwards then jumping up he ran into the forest a little way. The girls could not see him, but Silvia could still sense him.
She stayed where she was, Lacey stood up and came back to stand beside her. "Do we keep this one?" She asked, pointing to the dead monster. "Just leave it, we can take care of it tomorrow." Replied Silvia, turning and picking up the ropes that Lacey had cut from the boy's legs and wrists.
She could still sense him hiding in the bushes. She nodded letting Lacey know he was still close. "Let's go to the meadow." She suggested.
Lacey nodded in agreement and they started toward the meadow, but then quickly took a different route to make sure that the boy could not find them and follow them back to their tree.
"So?" Lacey began, as they sat on the branch just outside their tree house. "Are we just going to let him stay out there all alone?" "Yes." Silvia answered with a shrug of her shoulders. "There's not much we can do for him.
He ran after you untied him." "Plus, where would he sleep?" She added. Lacey sighed and then giggled. "Poor thing." "Poor? Didn't you hear him, the way he talked about those men?" Silvia asked, astonished. " Let's go to the meadow now and get some food for dinner." Stated Silvia after a moment of silence.
The girls climbed down from the tree and headed to the meadow as they continued their conversation about the boy. "Well, I guess if he is smart he should be fine." Said Lacey.
"Yeah, because we have already taken care of most of the monsters." Silvia sighed. "Unless he is stupid enough to get killed by one of the few remaining ones left in the forest." Lacey added.
They soon reached the meadow and caught themselves a rabbit. When they left the meadow, their boots were damp from the wet grass.
Silvia had the rabbit on her spear and they headed for their tree. When they had the rabbit stew on the fire Lacey stayed to tend it and Silvia headed out to check on Tim.
"That is what he had said his name is." Silvia mused to herself as she jumped from the root to the ground and went along the path that led to the lagoon where she had last sensed him.
As she got near the lagoon she jumped up into a tree and went from tree to tree quietly until she was in a tree beside the water. Tim was sitting on a rock at the edge of the lagoon with his bare feet in the water.
She could hear him muttering to himself. "Who do they think they are? They think they are so big, killing a monster in front of me...…and my shipmates...….force me to come here..." "Is he complaining?" Silvia thought to herself. "We saved his ungrateful life." She shook her head.
At that moment she lost her balance a little, but caught herself by grabbing a small branch above her head. The leaves made a rustling sound.
She went down lower just in case he looked over at where she had been. She looked at him again, he was looking into the trees beside where she was. She smiled a little at the look on his face.
The poor boy was scared out of his wits. She grabbed a small twig and pinched it between her fingers, it snapped, and the boy jumped up looking into the darkening forest.
She rustled the leaves again, and couldn't stop the squeal that came out of her mouth as he jumped at the sound and fell backwards into the water with a big splash.
She put a hand to her mouth to stifle the laugh that racked her body. She quickly jumped down from the tree and headed away as fast as she could before she burst out laughing.
She got about halfway to their tree before she could not hold it any longer and fell on the ground in a fit of laughter.
Lacey sat at the stone table, she had just pulled the stew off the fire and it was now burning low. The room was dim but still light enough to eat by.
The door opened and Silvia came in, her face was red and tears were on her cheeks. Leaves and dirt were in her hair and on her clothing. Her silver locks were a rat's nest. "What happened to you?!" Lacey asked as she got up, concern written on her face.
"Nothing." Was all Silvia said as she went over and landed face first on the pile of hides in the corner that Lacey called her bed. "You don't look o k, you look like you rolled in the dirt." Lacey worried, sitting down again.
Silvia still had her face in the fur of the blanket, she slowly sat up and then moved to the table.
She knelt at the table then could not help letting out a giggle as she began telling Lacey what had happened. The girls were in a laughing fit, cackling like a bunch of chickens as they ate their rabbit stew.
To be continued-