Insertion.
I felt my way through this new host's insertion area. Skilled as we were at possessing our host's It was done way to late. I had barely attached myself to the host, knowing I'd have time. When I lost control of my hold. The body was… moving on it's own. Whatever was doing it knew what to do with the body. It yelled something and then a light sent touched some of the senses I was still attached too. The body was subdued for the moment and I attached myself more firmly to the host.
Then came the last memories. Most recent first. I knew that. The last thing that happened to the host was the thing it would remember first.
The desert was ruff under my bear feet but I didn't care. The pain of the heated sand would be nothing if I couldn't get there in time. I knew there was a small hole for them to breath through but, I shook my head. I'll get there, I will save you my wanderer. Wanda and Burns had been trapped in a little cave for almost two days now. They had had water and food to last them a week if they rationed it. But that was too long for me. I needed my love and I needed her now. She was probably scared, and worried and stuck with Burns! I heard tracks…. Car's approaching fast. It was Jared… Or Kyle coming to stop me, I remembered what they'd said. "You'll be seen. What if there was a helicopter flying by. They'd see you, capture you and then where would we be?" I shook their words from my mind. I had to get Wanda out. And more importantly away from that red headed, conniving, flirtatious animal.
It wasn't Jared. Or Kyle. Neither of them had come for me. It was something much worse. Seekers. Just as my idiot brother had for seen the seekers found me. I was roped, gagged and sedated and all the while I thought I saw a hand. A beautiful had that I'd held for long amounts of time reaching out of the rock. I tried to scream her name. Scared as I was I knew the seekers would help them. I tried to scream her name again when the gag slipped. "Wanderer!" And just as they sprayed 'Still' into my face I could have sworn I heard her scream my name. "Ian."
I was ready this time. As I stiffened my hold I forced the unknown force back. I controlled this body now. Not the host himself me.
"Let him be." Said a calm voice, "This one is a wild human. The soul needs time to take hold of the prober nerves"
"But he holds information!" said another voice. This one more strongly. "It was cought in the same dessert where two other souls went missing. It's a clue Carves The Ice! This host could lead us to the resistance."
Like Hell
I was stunned. I didn't think that. It must have been the host.
Damn right. And I won't fade.
He read my thoughts. I tried to concentrate on moving the right nerves as the first voice had said. I tried to move my toes. And then when they did move I tried to move my hands.
"He's waking up." Crowed the second voice. My body supplied that it was a female voice.
"Take your time." The first voice said in a calming tone.
For some reason it relaxed my host. The calm voice was soothing. It was…. Like hers.
My heart raced I found the way to move my mouth when my host tried to speak. "Did you find her?"
It was silent then the second voice spoke, "No. We only found this host in the desert. No other humans were found."
"No." I said restraining my host, "Wanderer."
There was silence again. It was hard to push the host back because he was so forcefull. I eventually subdued him. I found the way to open my eyes and the way to move. I opened my eyes.
Oh God. I'm in a healing facility. My host thought.
Of course we were. I had just been inserted. I could tell that no matter how vocal and how mobile he was, he was still suffering from the 'still'.
The soul that I guessed was the healer helped me sit up. "Take it slow now."
"Who is this Wanderer?" The second voice said. It was a seeker that much was obvious to me. I recognized that there were two seekers in the room. One male and one female. The female was the one speaking not the male. But he was resting a hand on the female seekers shoulder. A restraint.
"Wanderer…. Is…. A…. soul." I said.
Don't. Don't tell them. Please I beg you. He only protested what I wanted to say next.
I wanted to tell them that she was venerable and that she could lead them to the resistance. That way I would not be responsible. I could also say that she was a traitor, although that was not what my host thought.
"A soul?" The female seeker said her voice going up with curiosity.
"She's trapped…. With Burns…. Burns Living Flowers." I said his full name to make it known that he was a soul too.
Say I held them captive. Tell them I was alone. Tell them I was holding them for information when the wall collapsed.
I didn't want to say something untrue. And why should I want to help my host? Why shouldn't I tell the seeker everything I knew? I would tell the truth as the humans phrased it.
The host, Ian, threw things at me then. The only weapons he had. Memories. He made me remember the feel of her. The feel of her soft skin, the feel of her lips on mine and the fire it created. And worst of all me made me remember love. How we felt about her, how we longed for her touch, how we longed to kiss her neck before we….
I shuddered. This host was…. Mean…. Evil even. I had no choice. "Wanderer and Burns Living Flowers are trapped in a cave." I tried to only speak the truth. Ian knew how bad of layers souls were. "They were trapped there by…." I couldn't think of a truth, so I lied. "Ian. My host he trapped them there." I shuddered at the lie. "But he was going to retrieve them. He was going to set them free and…." I hit a wall. "Move them."
That was the best I could do. As my first day in my new host I had been persuaded by a human who couldn't attack anyone but me. I had heard of their race. Killing and brutal. This host didn't show either in him. I was intrigued. I was…. Curious. I wanted to know more about him but he wouldn't budge. I felt the wall. The only thing he would let me see was her.
Wonderer. Or Wanda. The one thing that matter to him the most. The one person who was his everything. The one he wanted to save.