~ ANAMAY ~
I wanted to go and look but I was so scared. My legs felt like boulders, I could not get them to move. I heard Mr Parker yell, telling Joe to save some one. Mr Joe yelled back. The he said, he was dead.
I covered my mouth, to suppress the loud gasp. The beast had got someone again. The sound of Demetri screams echoed in my head. I covered my ears. But that got louder instead. I crumbled to the floor.
Pressing my ears so tight, pleading in my heart to make it stop. I could not hear anything else, I did not hear the footsteps come into the room. I do not hear my name being called. My ears shut and my tears flowing. I was mumbling.
"Stop. Please stop, please. Stop please. Stop". In my panic, someone grabbed me and pulled me into his embrace.
I left the floor like I weighted nothing. The arms pressed me hard onto it's body. My ears were still covered but I could now hear something else. I could hear a faint call out. My name spoken in the softest way possible. It was a masculine voice. He was saying.
"Anamay, it's ok. It's over. Calm down, please"
I felt his empathy wash over me like cold water, his desire for my tears to cease was so sincere, I found my self compelled to stop crying.
"It's okay. It okay now."
I could not hear the screams again. My hands left my ear and fumbled each other in fading anxiety. That moment, I looked up to find the face of my comforter.
It was the mist I met first. Light grey in blue, they held my gaze. I was submerged in this mystery. It was like time paused. I wanted to stay like this for long but Leo came from nowhere and butt in.
"Anamay, you need to let go. He is wounded and undressed."
I heard the first bit and my eyes trailed away in curiosity, to find his wounds. They found something else.. a bare chest.
It was when I saw them that I realized the second bit… undressed. I looked away immediately. And made a shy gesture of wanting to leave his embrace. He let me go.
I saw Mr Joe come to him and he stood up from where he knelt, following him. My eyes tailed him, looking at his entire figure. His height, I noticed first. Leo was exceptionally tall but this guy was taller.
Almost 8ft, I guessed and… I noticed something else… he wasn't just undressed. He had nothing other than that jacket on his waist on. I felt kind of weird immediately. I was hugging a naked man just now.
I did not have the chance to wallow in my feeling because Leo gave me a gentle tap on the shoulder. I did not look at him.
"Anamay, we are leaving here now. I need help with our things. Do you think you can assist?"
He was gentle with his request. I gave him a nod. He found my hand and helped me off the floor. Our fingers still interlocked, I followed him to where ever he went.
~ ELISH ~
The doc took me to the bathroom. He closed the toilet seat and I sat on the cover.
"We cannot have you dripping blood on the bedroom floors so. Let us do it here."
He said to me. He was with his kit. He washed the other man's blood off his hands and then dipped a clean towel I fresh water and used it to wipe the blood off my back and arm.
My body had numbed so quickly so I did not feel the pain from the cuts but when water dipped into it, I found myself wincing in pain.
He used other chemicals on my injuries after cleaning it. They hurt more. Then he bandaged it. I was feeling very sore after all that.
"Wait here let me get you something to wear." he said to me before he left.
I wondered why he said, 'Wait here. Where would I go?' I figured it must be a mere statement. The doc came back a three minute later. He gave me a shirt, a trouser and worn out boots.
No small shorts like Leo had set for me. I wore them like that. Then I followed him outside. He heads for the stairs, I still with him.
"We are leaving now. Everyone is outside now. You are the only one left."
"Mhmm," I responded.
We went through the front door. He asked me to move on while he locked the door. I did, getting downstairs myself. Everyone was downstairs indeed.
The girl, Anamay. She was standing next to Leo in long baggy trousers and an oversized sweater. Grey hair was further down, beside the body. They had thrown something black over it.
"Leo, head to the car. We are coming," grey hair said.
"Yes, Dad," Leo replied. He gave Anamay a slightly tug.
She turned and Followed him. I was looking at her as she left. I felt a bit embarrassed. Honestly, I did it out of impulse. Immediately I walked in to that room and I saw her on the floor, I freaked out and next thing I know I was close to her and holding her.
Something weird happened when I held her. She made me feel, Cold and my heart ached. There was something; a pressuring to let go before I froze to death but I did not want to.
"Elish. Come and give me a hand", grey hair called me back to reality. I moved to where he was. He made gestures to lifting the body. I did, without his help. He leads the way then. We moved to meet the others. There were already inside this thing he called 'Car'.
There was a place in the back where he had me place the body. He climbed into that place and I was to get inside the car. I did. The same way I saw the others get in too. I sat next to the doc in the front seat. I saw him move his hands around keys.
The 'Car', as they called it, started making noises. I have to admit; I was a bit startled. I made sure it was not noticed.
The doc wheeled it back and the forward, we were making our way through the bush paths the next moment. There was something showing reflections hanging beside my window.
Once I saw myself on it, I continued to stare. My eyes had gotten greyer and my hair looked slightly rough. The type you could not straighten.
"Are there people that look like me?"
The question just came out before I could realize I had asked it. The doctor chuckled. Well, he was the closest to me so it was not surprising that he thought I was asking him. "Well, you are quite different. But am sure there are."
'So there are not. Great'
All my self deceptions had failed me now. I was staring at the truth. I was not ordinary. My body looked different, my eyes too. I could not eat what they ate and I kept waking up naked in some where unfamiliar.
I had odd strength and yet a silver cutlass hurt me. I killed that man but how I did, I could not explain. I needed answers and I was going to find them.