Remember Me
Chapter 3
OPOV
Amber … so beautiful.
It is my favorite color. It is warm and inviting. Every place I look the color is engulfing all my senses. I can not escape it. Gazing into the color I feel safe in a way. Like I am home. Maybe that is why I loved him for as long as I could remember. His eyes were the most beautiful thing I had ever seen. Against his pale skin and raven hair he seem almost animal like. Different from all those around me.
I see him now walking towards me. He has the same look he wore the night of my homecoming. His eyes are fixated on my and I feel my cheeks begin to burn under his intense stare. He has always been passionate but normally he saves that look for his training. Now with his eyes gazing at me as if I were fire itself I am finding it so had to breath.
"Miss wake up please!" The voice begged.
With this plea his image evaporates into thin air. 'No!' I think to myself. I want nothing more then to be surrounded by this color. I feel safe for the first time in so long. To see him and know he wants me. Please bring him back.
"Miss please! Please, I can't carry you without any help!" The voice urged. It was a female voice I could tell. Young and sweet sounding.
'Go away." I hear myself whimper but I fight the urge to open my eyes. I don't want this life anymore. I can't do this anymore.
"I'm sorry but you left me no choice." The voice warns.
Suddenly I hear a swoosh and something collides with my face. My eyes shoot open but I can't make anything out in the bright sunlight. I yelp but before I can scream a hand is covering my mouth. I finally start to make out a young girl. She looks close in age to me. Her hair is brown and long. Her eyes green and I instantly know she is from the earth kingdom.
"Shhh …" She whispers. "There were strange men wandering these woods. They look mean and when I jumped down the side of the bank to hide I saw you laying in the sand." She slowly pulls her hand away and smiles. "I almost left you for dead but noticed you breathing. I pushed you back into the water with me and floated a few miles down." It was then I noticed we were both dripping wet.
"Thank you." I rasped. I slowly pulled away from the girl and sat up on my elbows. Taking in my surroundings I noticed I seemed to be in a less dense woodland then before. Letting out a deep breath I smile up at the girl. "Thank you for saving my life. I am Ornith." I say weakly.
"I'm Cordelia. Was I right … were those men looking for you?" She asked.
"Yes, I believe they were. Have you seen any sign of them?" I make a move to stand but feel my knees buckle before I am fully upright. Cordelia reached out and helps steadies me and I see we are about the same height.
"I think I lost them. Still we should hurry to town. We will be safer surrounded by the people of my village." With that she gives me a small tug. I assume we are head towards her village and begin to make week steps.
How long had I been in the water before I blacked out. The morning tea they gave me must have been poisoned so if I made a move to escape I wouldn't have gotten far. Being in the water had thrown them off apparently.
"Thank you again. Where are we if you don't mind me asking." I still have absolutely no idea where in the world I actually am.
"I live in a small village called Huriko about a hundred miles outside Ba Sing Se." She answered. At this I feel my heart skip. I almost lost my footing.
"A hundred miles …" I whisper.
"Yeah, sounds far but there are a ton of different ways to get there." My new friend answered. I smiled at the girl. We continue walking and I begin to form a plan.
A hundred miles wasn't far at all. I have a few days before my bending will return. Until then I can build a glider like my father had taught me so long ago. I could easily be in the capital city within a week. I was finally starting to feel happy for the first time in a long time because Ba Sing Se meant one thing.
Of all of my Aunts and Uncles only one had returned to her home country. My Mother and Father lived in the Fire capital. At first my mother had hated it but it was important for my dad to be close to Uncle Zuko during the rebuilding of the world basically. When things had finally leveled off they decided to stay for all my friends lived there. Uncle Sokka had moved back to the fire capital when he discovered Kumat's water bending so Aunt Katara could teach him to master his skills.
No, only one had moved back and stayed in her home country. Of all the kingdoms to land on I had actually gotten lucky. I was going to be safe with her because no one, not even Uncle Zuko, messed with my Aunt Toph.
HPOV
I sit on my sleeping mat watching the fire dance in our camp. I can hear the wood cracking and small sparks float up into the sky before burning out. The fire keeps dancing on. Twisting and living. I wonder how the air can kill the spark yet keep the fire alive. How can it do two things at once. Fire is a complicated thing but air is an invisible mystery. I am amazed at how much we are defined by what we bend.
She is either alive or dead. All Aunt Wu could see was her floating face up down a river. She seemed to be unconscious. Her eyes closed. Her limbs dead. How she described her was no the girl I saw so long ago. Her face was bruised and cut. Her skin pale and her frame dangerously thin. That was all she could get. I have no clue of anything else.
The description of her alone was tearing me apart. From what she had said Ornith now looked a shell of her former self. The beautiful radiant girl who was always so alive seemed to be barely hanging on. I always knew they would treat her poorly but to have these fears confirmed was almost to much to take.
I put my hands on my face and start to rub my eyes. I would give anything to see that young ball of energy again. The girl who would make me run around the palace playing practical jokes on everyone. The girl who would tease me about how serious I was and push my buttons. I would give anything to have just a tiny piece of her again.
I let out a deep calming breath and repeat what I had told myself a million times since this afternoon. 'If something happened to her your would feel it. You would know.' I don't know how I knew this, I just did. Are fates are entwined together. Her destiny is my destiny. Somehow the five of us have been since birth. I am not the only one who would feel it if we lost her.
When I had told them what Aunt Wu had seen I had felt the pain in there hearts. At the same time I felt the determination as well. We had all agreed we would keep looking. We would find her. Even if it was just her body. We were going to bring her home.
Funny how air can kill and give life at the same time.
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