Deception
Chapter three
The house was eerily quiet. The only sound in the crystal halls was the muffled sound of the collective and Prentice talking in the other room and the sound of someone rocking on the balls of their feet up stairs. Oddly it made a different sound then footsteps, more of a creaking in the wood than a rhythmic tapping. Seemingly Prentice and the collective had heard them come in because they were in the entryway with in the minute,
"Upstairs, Wylie's door will probably be open," Tam was gone in second, and the rest of them quickly followed, although Sophie stayed towards the back with Keefe,
"I haven't seen you since the funeral," she said, Keefe shrugged awkwardly,
"I've been sorta busy," he responded,
"Oh," Sophie thought of a response for a few minutes, " Well try not to disappear so much I was worried about you," Keefe smiled awkwardly.
Walking into Wylie's room it was obvious that all through the main tenant of the room was Wylie, Linh was there a lot. Mostly little things gave it away, the flowers scattered around the room in vases, the open hydrokinetic textbooks on the desk, the throw pillows on the bed and women's clothes in the corner of the closet.
Linh was propped up against a stack of pillows and seemed awfully calm for someone who had a knife going through the bottom if her mouth and up into her head. Linh waved awkwardly with her hand Tam wasn't holding. Wylie was sitting on the other side of the bed, pushing Linh's hair away from her face. Linh was seemingly the calmest, although she looked like she was stopping herself from showing any pain, Sophie looked at them for a minute,
"Shouldn't you take the knife out of her head?" Sophie asked, Tam shook his head,
"It'll stop her from bleeding so much," he explained, Linh nodded. Livvy and Elwin came in the door,
"That is a lot worse than what I was imagining when you said 'stab wound'" Elwin said turning to Livvy,
"I am the master of stab wounds, providing this is a small knife this should that like five minutes," Livvy explained,
"What if it's not a small knife?" Sophie asked, Livvy shrugged,
"I'm just going to hope it didn't reach her brain," responded Livvy, Tam looked concerned at that, Wylie moved so that he was still close by but out of the way. Elwin started looking at Linh's head,
"Doesn't look like it reached her brain," Elwin said, Livvy nodded and moved closer to Linh,
"Who here is an elf with a strong stomach?" Livvy asked, "I need small hands and not vomit," Tam and Linh both raised their hands, Livvy sighed, "Okay who here meets the former requirements, and is not Tam or Linh," Biana slowly raised her hand, "I've seen you puke your guts out, why are you lying to me Biana," Keefe very slowly raised his hand, "Yes, okay you get over here,"
"I'm not sure he should be medically trusted," Tam said nervously,
"Don't worry, he just needs to put compression on the wound," Livvy said, she handed Keefe a gauze, "Elwin's going to hold her head steady while I take out the knife, then put this underneath her head and press where she got stabbed, okay," Livvy instructed, Keefe nodded, Elwin grabbed on to Linh's head to keep it steady, and tilted it back a bit. As Livvy slowly pulled the knife out revealing more and more blood different parts of Linh's face started bleeding. Mostly her nose, but her eyes didn't seem to be clear either. As Livvy finished pulling the knife out of her head Livvy sprayed something on Linh's mouth and then put something in her mouth that stopped the bleeding almost entirely she put something under her nose and Linh inhaled it stopping the blood flowing from her nose, "okay take the compression off her jaw," Livvy instructed, Keefe removed the gauze, Livvy applied something to the entrance point of the knife. Ro moved out of the corner where she'd been leaning against a wall.
"This is a ogre knife," Ro inspected,
"What does that mean?" Sophie asked,
"Nothing good," responded Ro flicking the knife and splattering Elwin with blood. She made a face and then put the knife in an empty part of her weapons belt, " Do you think it could have been an ogre who stabbed Linh?' she asked Wylie, he shook his head,
"I think it was Gisela," he told,
"Dang," she whispered,
"What do you mean? Isn't that good?" Sophie asked, Ro shook her head,
"This is an Ogre knife, only Ogre's can get one, which means someone bought one and then sold it to the the Neverseen, which means that my dad would have to find the traitor through careful investigation before punishing them," Ro explained,
"And by 'punish' you mean kill? Right?" Keefe clarified, Ro nodded, Sophie looked over at Linh, she seemed more alert, but not in a good way. More in a seeming more and more anxious sort of way. Tam seemed to of noticed too,
"Linh, are you okay? Linh," Tam said putting a hand on Linh's shoulder. Wylie turned around seemingly having been paying attention to the prior conversation, Linh leaned back on the pillows behind her as her eyelids started to drooping. Elwin looked at her head again,
"Crap," he muttered, Livvy moved next to him,
"What?" she asked her face contorting with worry.
"Did you notice the hole in the sword, because it's shaped similar to the tip and is really hard to notice that it's not when your examining someone through their cell," he told her,
"Brain Damage?" Livvy asked,
"And bleeding," Elwin clarified, Tam and Wylie both looked very concerned at that,
" She is going to be okay right?" Tam asked, Livvy and Elwin didn't answer,
A minute passed, then five more before Livvy or Elwin said anything,
"She should be fine but it's going to take at least five and a half months for her brain to heal enough for her to wake up, maybe longer," Elwin explained. Sophie's imparter started beeping,
"Sorry but I really should," she said walking out of the room, she clicked the except button, and Amy's face filled the screen,
"So three things happened you should probably know about, the first is that mom randomly disappeared, the second is that yesterday I started hearing dad's, and everyone else for that matter, thoughts, and the third is certainly the weirdest, I was going through mom's stuff and I found an imparter in a box labeled mom's stuff, with another piece of tape underneath that was just labeled, Lila 1904, underneath, and I can guarantee that it was not a humans box from 1904"
AN: Carin: *Laughs nervously* hi Alli, so I know you never said I could make Amy a telpath, but you also never said that when Amy came back she *Couldn't* be a telepath. ALSO OMG THE FLASHBACK COVER! Mildly bitter Dex and Biana were not on the cover.BUT IT WAS ALSO SO FREAKING COOL! Anyways until chapter, what five?
BYE