Month later
Kira's pov
I stumbled crashing into something I couldn't see more than flashes and of those flashes I could not make sense of what I was seeing I couldn't stand up straight. Time was a foreign concept I couldn't remember when this started it could have been years it could have been seconds.
What had triggered it? I couldn't remember. I felt great fear and the unexplainable need for water. Water I need water. The word ran around my head but I didn't know where it was or where it could be.
I couldn't see. I stumbled and crashed into another tree and I felt it with my hand pushing off it. I stumbled and fell to my knees in the ankle high snow. Snow. Snow was water my brain made the connection and I scooped it up and in to my mouth not caring that it made my teeth ache.
Already I felt the dizziness fading and my eyesight returning I stubbed to my feet and nearly fell over, my eyesight was gone again, I straightened myself. Some stupid thing like lack of eyesight or unsteadiness was going to stop Kira Wavesong.
I stumbled through the forest somehow finding my way to the camp. I blinked my eyesight and brain working together for a moment and nearly fell on my back. I was in the sharks' camp! I had to get away. I stumbled away and moved in another direction. Why was I even more scared? I felt like I should remember something important about the fear and was it came from. It couldn't all be from the fact that I was blind and dizzy. I stumbled into another camp that's right I had walked into the sharks' camp that was why I was sooo….so what? A boy came out of the cabin. He approached me. "You okay?" I collapsed. I didn't have the strength to stand any longer.
"Hal? Water! Hal I need water." Even in my state I knew I seemed crazy. I was trying to get control but I was so tired.
"Gorlog's loincloth! Rolland come quick and get Hal from the herons there's a girl asking after him and I think she's mad."
My head is pressed against the ground and I open my eyes have they been shut this whole time? Time? Where am I? Why am I on the ground? Who are these people? I don't call out to Hal again it was a mistake. He could get in trouble. I hear the sound of feet crunching through the snow. "Who is she?"
Rolland. I recognized his voice. I was in the wolf camp not good though better than the sharks. Why had I been in the shark camp?
"I don't know she just stumbled in and collapsed calling for Hal and water."
"Dell go get Hal. Maybe he can explain things. Now who are you?" This was addressed to me and I lifted my head off the ground I swayed and my vision started to go again. The boy who had found me tentatively put his arm out to steady me and I looked Rolland in the eyes and said as strongly as I could "I am Kira" I wasn't going to tell them my last name that was clear. Rolland crouched down so we were almost eye to eye.
"How did you get here?"
"I assume I walked." And there was my wit so I guess face planting did me some good.
"No. How come you are in our camp?"
"If I knew that I would have not come." Rolland looked annoyed
"Stop talking in riddles girl."
"A threat?"
"No I want a straight answer."
"And I want to think strait so I guess we are in the same boat." That gave me a lot of odd looks maybe it was the saying or the fact that I had admitted that I was crazy.
"Are you mad?"
"You know many people ask me that and I can't fathom why." Hal hurry up and get here I am not going to be able to hold myself together for much longer. I was losing it again. Rolland was getting frustrated. Dell and Hal magically appeared out of nowhere.
"Kira!" Hal yelled startling all the wolves.
"Hey Hal. Can't someone get me some δεκάρα water?"
"I am assuming that was a swear." a boy said
"This one's real bright." I said sarcastically a good defense is a better offence.
"What happen to her?" Hal sounded angry but I was losing the battle
"Hal" I said drawing attention to myself again
"I think she about to fall over again." I felt arms scoop me up and didn't have the energy to feel anything beyond a little fear of what was coming next never mind embarrassment.
"I will take her home." I felt the voice through my side as Hal spoke he must have been the one to pick me up. Had I ever been down? I think so. I felt better with Hal holding me.
"Not alone, I'm coming too." I think that was Rolland but I couldn't tell I finally let go and dropped out of conscious.
Hal's Pov
Dell suddenly burst out of the trees into our camp I looked up from where I had been sorting out the twins.
"There's some girl asking about you in the camp you better come quickly. I think she's mad."
I leapt up Kira? She would be the only girl who would ask about me but why was she at the wolves' camp? She did not like to socialize with the other Skandians.
"Bring me to her. You lot stay here." I told the other herons.
Dell turned and ran into the trees and I followed we arrived in time to here Kira say
"You know many people ask me that and I can't fathom why." She was sitting surrounded by the wolves Rolland crouched in front of her and a boy holding her shoulders as she sat in the snow. I yelled her name she was pale and had scratches on her face and she looked tired. She saw me and then asked for water swearing in Oreek and confusing everyone. I walked forward and the boy who had supported her moved away. I was angry did the wolves do something to her? Why was no one helping her? I asked what happen but no one gave me a good answer. I scooped her up I would bring her back to the herons. She did not look good what little color she had was gone and she looked ready to go to sleep. Then to my surprise Rolland said he would go with me alone. We left the camp making our way back to the Herons camp.
"Where are we going?"
"My camp."
"Doesn't she have a home?"
"Rolland she not from here. She just lives in the forest and occasionally gives us extra meat if she brings down a larger kill."
"Then how do you know her?"
"Found her when we were sailing and gave her a ride." We reached the camp and the boys all leapt to their feet as they saw me come in with Kira in my arms and Rolland behind me.
"Kira!"
"What happen?"
"Who did this was it the Wolves?"
"Hal she's injured. Look"
The last one was Edvin and he was right. Kira at some point had torn part of her pant leg and used it as a bandage around her calf. I quickly set her down on a log and pulled the cloth away revealing a gash two inches long and half an inch at its widest point. The cloth, boot and her leg were crusted with dried blood. Suddenly Kira lashed out and flipped in the strangest way I couldn't even begin to understand how and landed in a crouch. "Kira you are okay. Can you tell me what happen?" I asked in a soothing voice slowly approaching as if she were a wild creature and in some ways she was wild. A look of intense confusion was on her face and she said quietly
"I don't remember. Hunting had been tough with the extra hunters around so I was hungry when I slipped and fell. I tore a gash in my leg and bandaged it up I thought I was fine but later I started losing my sight I must have seen something because I found my way back to a camp it ended up being the sharks camp so I got out of there and found the wolves camp. You probably know the rest better than me."
"When did you last eat?" that was Ingvard
"Two days ago, maybe. Can I have some water?"
"Sure. Stig get some we need to take her to my mother. Kira can you walk?" I asked her.
"Yes." she dragged herself to her feet swaying slightly but when Stig came with water she drank it up and she seemed to recover though I was not going to let her go far from my side.
We set off through the woods but Kira was lagging clearly losing it again from too much movement. Finally I scooped her up it had been stupid of me to let her walk. She protested. "I can walk on my own."
"No you can't."
"Yes I can."
"No you can't."
"Yes I can."
"No you can't."
"Yes I can."
"No you can't."
"You carry me through Hallasholm and I will….ευνουχίζω you."
I saw jasper out of the corner of my eye say to Rolland "They argue like an old couple."
"What language are you speaking?" Rolland asked looking between Kira and me.
"My home tongue." She snapped back not in a great mood
"What did you say?" Ulf questioned.
"If I knew the common equivalent I would say it in that. I was not taught swears in common."
"Well you won't have to do that because my mother's tavern has a back door and is close to the forest. We just slip in." I told her.
"Why not go to a healer?" Rolland asked.
"It's not safe and it's a bad idea." Kira replied in a tone that made it final. We brought her into the tavern without any one seeing us and then brought her to my old pallet.
"You stay here till my mother is done for the night. You should go back one person missing is less noticeable than a whole brother band and another brother bands skirl." the others looked ready to protest but Rolland spoke up and ordered everyone out.
Hi! Here is chapter three!
I know some people are wondering about Kira's language if anyone is actually reading this. It is Greek which I thought was fitting because of Kira's origins which you will learn about later. The whole thing with Kira was that she had not eaten and then got injured this is something that can happen. And often water and putting your head below your heart can help greatly. In other words Kira was fainting and was trying to fight it off. Please review if you do I will cry and be so happy. And I hope to have the next part up by Saterday.
Disclaimer: I don't own anything except Kira everything else belongs to Flanagan.
