~ LEO ~
I sat across her another one of the cushion chairs, looking at her as my dad blabbered on about what happened while she was asleep. He even went on to detail the looks of the ass who brought her back.
Anamay's eyes glittered with each description of him. I boiled with disdain where I was but I dared not show it. Let Anamay have the fun now.
Dad must have decided to go first and lighten her mood before the really serious things began… Asking Anamay to narrate what happened that night.
Well, I too should enjoy her smile while it lasts before things get hot but… you know I think that guy is a bad omen. Nothing good has been happening to me ever since he came.
Imean look at now, immediately I decided to enjoy Anamay's smile, I was met with a frightened frown. She paled like a ghost in just a space of five seconds. We all noticed the change. Dad stopped his story.
"Anamay dear. What's wrong?" dad asked.
"So it's not a nightmare. He is really dead. He is not here which means Demetri's gone."
"Anamay," her name fell out of my mouth involuntarily.
She did not look away from the ground. I found myself coming close to try and hold her but when my hand touch her, she gasped in a way that frightened me off. I just stood close to her instead. My dad took over from me. She didn't shove him off when he held her.
Classic girl Behavior. Always close to the dads, I presumed. Dad tried to calm her down, it worked and about three minutes later, she was not only calm but when dad asked her of she could talk about that night, she agreed. Most of the men had left.
Only Commander Gene and Dr. Joe remained. Aside from Gene, everyone else in this location were in this room.
Anamay was still in Dad's arms when she began.
"I remember running with the wounds in my leg. I could not go too fast because of it. I stumbled on a tree stomp and I tripped, falling on my neck. I heard my neck break, am sure it did. My legs crippled too. I tried to get off the floor, to safety but I could not move. So I crawled."
"There was a hollow tree before me. I tried to hide inside it but I could only get my head and hands in when the beast came to me. It…" her voice broke like my heart when she made that pause.
It was like I could feel her fear and I could do nothing to help.
"I don't know what it used." She blinked back her tears.
"But it hurt a lot when it dug into my back. I actually begged it to stop because it was dragging it down. Funny Thing is, the beast stopped. Instead, it pulled me out of the tree and flung me away." She paused to take a deep breath and then continued.
"I think I hit something before I landed on the ground. When my eyes was closing I think... I don't but it kinda looked like I saw." I bent closer, my whole attention fixed on her. Everyone was too anyways.
"I think I saw a ma…"
A shriek echoed from outside. All our eyes flew to towards it immediately.
'What was that?'
Anamay and I were frightened the most. I was sure of it because like me, we could not move an inch. Dad flashed a eye at Dr. Joe. The man went in to the house and out with two loaded revolvers.
Dad slipped away for Anamay immediately, picking up the gun Joe had held out to him. The two of them made for the outside. I wanted to follow. It's this ridiculous fear that kept me from moving fast enough to Help my brother. I was not letting it work on me again.
'Move Leo. Move'
My legs refuse to.
'Come on, Leo. Come on!'
The budge, I practically staggered forward the first two steps. Anamay caught my hand, the touch I was looking for but in this moment, it didn't give me the riveting feeling I wanted.
"Leo what are doing. You can't go outside"
I bent on one knee close to her, my gaze and hers intertwined.
"Anamay listen, I will be fine. I have to go. I can't leave them to do this alone. I can't leave my dad alone out there. I will be right back okay."
I stroked her long hair behind her ear and pulled out of her reluctant grip. I was soaring thorough the stairs the next moment. Dad keeps a pistol hidden inside the wooden floors of the house, some steps away for the front door.
I crouched down immediately I got to that exit. Hitting my hand continuously on the planks, looking for the one with a hollow sound.
I was fast, fast enough to find it. My hands felt the edges for the crooked part. It was well clasped to the other wooden framed of the house but once my fingers hit it, I pulled it open immediately. I could hear dad's voice yelling at something to come out into the open.
Thanks to heaven I had a good aim, I picked up the revolver and hurried outside. Not too fast though, I was the hidden weapon at this point so staying invisible was imperative.
From where I hid, I took a peep at dad. Dr. Joe was in one knee, over Gene. He seemed to be hurt. Dad was pointing his gun at the moving bushes. Something was certainly coming from there. It wasn't something big but it could hurt Gene so much that all Joe's efforts could not stop the bleeding.
There was so much tension in the air now. So intense, o didn't know when I sucked in my breath as a bloodied figure emerged slowly form behind the grasses. It had a bad wound on its back and it was holding a silver cutlass on its left hand. I know that naked body anywhere… it was Elish.