~SAPPHIRE~‘’Zephyr!’’ I muttered his name as I shook his body to wake him up, but he didn’t respond. I wanted to scream at him for putting himself at risk yet again because of me, but he lay lifeless in my arms, blood seeping from his back, his face becoming paler with each passing second. He was s
‘’A little more, Mira. Please, do this for us.’’Mira groaned again but didn’t say anything and continued to run. Zephyr’s life depended on it whether we liked it or not. Thunder rumbled, the sky opened above us, and rain poured in sheets. It happened just like the night I was being chased. The Moon
I nodded and took the bowl from his hand. The man turned Zephyr over to a shelf beside the fireplace and brought out a box with various medical instruments.He looked at me with a frown spread across his face. ‘’Don’t give me that look. I live in the forest, so I have to be prepared in case I get at
~ZEPHYR~"Run Landon!" The voice sounded familiar, yet it was from a woman holding onto a boy’s hand and running with him. It seemed that they were being chased by something or someone. The woman held on tighter to the boy, passing through bodies lying on the ground covered in blood.The moon was fu
‘’I warned you not to run, little boy,’’ The tattooed masked man yelled as he reached the boy. With one swing of his sword, he slashed the boy across the chest, again and again, until the boy’s shirt was torn and covered in his blood. The masked man didn’t stop his deadly torture of the little boy a
‘’I am sorry, Sapphire. I had no idea that it was you and…’’ I tried to explain, but she stopped me and pointed behind me, and I looked to see a bed.‘’I know that you were having a nightmare, and I tried to…’’ her voice broke again as she struggled to breathe. ‘’I had thought that by touching you a
~SAPPHIRE~“Do you need my help?” I watched as Zephyr struggled with his spoon. Although his wounds were healing and the traces of poison had been removed, he still found it hard to move his hand. Ato had informed us that it was a side effect of the poison. Zephyr could have asked for my help, but h
“Sorry.”Ato suddenly laughed, and we both turned our attention to him. He was a Weird man, and after spending a week with him, I discovered that he had lost his family to a disease outbreak. He was not around to be with them because he was busy fighting in the war. When he returned, his family was