"Ugh… I feel so terrible… I can't stand this…" I was lying on the forest floor; wing bent at an odd angle, the gash in my side bleeding heavily, and pain keeping me from moving. I closed my eyes. I'm going to either die here or be found and brought back to the School... Suddenly I heard a noise above me. It sounded almost like large wings beating the air. None of the Erasers I knew of had wings that could make that sound. "Help me! Please!" My voice wasn't loud at all so I doubted they heard me. The pain was becoming too unbearable, even the blood loss was becoming too much. I couldn't stay conscious for much longer.
I faintly heard the sound of people talking and felt someone picking me up. I didn't have the strength to open my eyes or even to move. I passed out to the sound of a heart beating as fast as mine does. The next thing I know a white hot pain in my side brought me back to consciousness. I cried out in pain and quickly moved away from where I had been. My eyes adjusted to the bright light in the room and I saw a girl about my age with brown hair holding a blood soaked towel. She made no move towards me, she just watched me with sympathy in her eyes.
My vision was slightly fuzzy but I could make out that we were in a bathroom and I had been lying on the floor. She set the towel down and held her hands up like she was surrendering. "You don't need to be scared; I'm only trying to help. My name is Max." I stared at her for a moment not sure how to answer. "Where am I? Why are you helping me? How did I get here?" She put her hands in her lap. "You are in my house, I'm helping you because you are like the rest of my family, and a member of my family brought you here." Family? There was a whole family of bird people? "Please, let me take care of your wounds."
I didn't answer for a moment. It wasn't like I was going to find anyone else to help me, so I couldn't exactly pass up this chance. I nodded. "Okay." She motioned for me to sit next to her on the side of the bathtub. I did and let her clean the wound on my side. When she has me all bandaged up she looked me in the eye. "Do you have any other injuries?" I hesitated. "I think my wing is broken…" She nodded and made a twirling motion with her finger, indicating for me to turn around. She told me to stretch out my wing; I did as she said. It hurt like hell just to move it, but when she started prodding it I almost cried out in pain again. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry…"
She told me to fold my wing; I did. "Well, it's not broken, you most likely sprained it but I can't be sure." I turned back so I was facing her. "Thank you…" She smiled. "No problem. You can stay here for the night if you want to, we have extra rooms." I gave a slight smile. "That sounds nice… Thank you again." She waved it off and stood up. "Come on there's someone that's been asking to see you." I didn't like the sound of it; I stood up anyway. The sudden movement turned the bathroom on its side and I had to grab Max's arm quickly before I fell over.
"You okay?" I nodded and let go of her as the room returned to normal. "Yeah, just got a little disoriented there…" She just nodded and led me down a dark hallway to a living room. There was a single lamp on next to the couch. The light shown on a boy, about my age, with strawberry blonde hair, and sightless blue eyes; he looked towards us when we walked in. A shiver ran down my spine and I had to use all my will power not to go over to him. He was looking at where he must have thought we were, and he was actually pretty damn close. Max went to put a hand on my shoulder but I flinched away, so she dropped her hand and walked over to where the boy was.
"This is Iggy, he's the one who found you and brought you here." I walked over and stood about a foot in front of him. He stood up and held out his hand. "Nice to meet you." He smiled and waited a moment for me to return the hand shake. I didn't move. "I'm sorry… I don't like touching people…" He nodded like he understood and dropped his hand. Max stretched her arms and turned towards another hallway. "Show her to the guest bedroom; I'm going back to bed." With that she left us alone. I couldn't stand it anymore; I stepped closer to Iggy and reached my fingers up to his temples.
He started to pull away but then froze when he felt my energy flowing through him. Bits of his memories flowed into my mind as I was drained of energy. When I had given as much of my energy as I could I passed out.