Hey there peoples! I'm back! So yea! Another chapter!
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This is starting a week of band camp so the updates will be slow. Sorry!
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Jay woke up the next morning and went over to the water bowl to wash her face and maybe wake up a little bit more.
She was feeling loads better even though if she moved too quickly her side made sure to let her know. Jay looked at her face in the water.
She laughed at her reflection. Her hair was all tangled and mussed up. She had bags under eyes from the stress of having to keep up her façade. She was a deathly pale and looked like she had been dragged through the forest several times.
Jay knew that she would feel better if she could get a change of clothes. There was a change in her bag. She kept them there for when she would rip up her clothes really badly or something in the forest and she needed to change. It had never actually happened before but she was now happy that she had thought of that before.
The only problem was that her bag was in Gilan's room. She would have to face Gilan and ask for her bag back.
Jay walked to the door and took a deep breath and steeled herself for what was to come. She opened the door and walked into the kitchen to find Gilan already sitting at the table.
Jay shook herself and huffed. Gilan looked up from some report he had been working on.
"O Jaylinn it is good to see you up."
"Um Gilan please call Jay. I was also wondering if I could ask you a question. No wait two questions."
"Well I see you are not going to fall for that old retort."
"Nope. I have fallen for that one way too many times."
"So, what did you want to ask?"
"Um well…Gilan…..I was wondering if I could have my bag back."
He gave her an understanding look.
"Jay, I haven't gone through your bag yet because I wanted to do it with you around so that if I found something that was questionable you could explain it and I wouldn't jump to conclusions. But, you have to promise me you won't lie about anything."
"Of course Gilan. Thanks so much for waiting for me."
Gilan got up and walked into his room to get her bag. Jay seriously hoped that she had gotten everything that she needed to out of her bag. She knew that she couldn't lie very well and so would tell the truth anyway.
"Wow Jay, your bag is pretty heavy. What do you have in it?" Gilan was starting to sound suspicious.
"O nothing. Just water and some other stuff" that was now officially a true statement.
Gilan was trying to figure out how to open her bag. Jay giggled, her bag had a zipper and apparently they were not invented yet. She unzipped the bag for Gilan and handed it back to him.
He gave her a weird look. "What is that?"
"Um, that is called a zipper. My bag is a one of a kind no buckles or loops for me." She giggled again. This was going to be very interesting.
The next thing that Gilan pulled out was Jay's two water bottles. He looked interested in the metal one but the *Camelback was what really got his attention.
"What is this?" he was looking very confused.
Jay laughed at his expression and grabbed the water bottle from him. She put it on her back and grabbed the straw.
"You see, it's kinda like a water bottle backpack. If you need to go hiking and you need a lot of water than you just use this. Cool right?"
"Cool?"
"O yea. Um….. O just forget it."
He gave her another weird look and began to search her backpack again. He pulled out Jay's assortment of knives ranging from hunting knives to switch knives to throwing knives. She carried a lot of knives. Jay thought they were cool. Gilan was very interested in them too.
Side note:(Jay only carried one of each kind of knife except for the throwing knives that had come in a three pack.)
She explained the switch knife to him and how it worked. He thought that it was very cool and useful.
The throwing knives were very interesting to him too. He examined each knife of Jays and deemed them very good quality. He was confused on how to wear the holster that they came with though. You see the holster that Jay had was one of those sheaths that had the arm straps and clipped in the front. I was perfect to wear under clothes and they could be reached quickly.
Jay showed Gilan how to wear it and he was very impressed.
"Yea it is very easy to access and you can carry more than one knife at a time. It works a lot better than your double scabbard."
Jay had started to get cocky again and had let her tongue slip. Gilan gave her an alarmed look.
"How do you know about our double scabbard?" he was being very cautious. Halt made him sound like a total amateur. Jay had been completely wrong about assuming that what Halt had said was true.
"I uh saw you wearing it and figured that this had to be easier than that thing." Who can say 'good save'?
"Hm. Well let's keep going" Jay prayed that he would stop there and fortunately he did.
He went through all her stuff that morning. Everything that you could imagine being in a survival pack was there. It wouldn't have been bad except that she had to explain everything to him. It was like being around a child on Christmas day.
The lighter fascinated him way more than anyone Jay had ever known. It was almost funny watching him go through her stuff. I am not going to list everything that was in her bag because it would take all day. Let's just imagine the ultimate survival pack and there you have it.
By the time they had gotten through everything in Jay's bag it was mid-morning. There was only one thing left in Jay's bag and it was her one of her favorite things.
They were a set of fingerless gloves that had brass knuckles set into them. It was very inconspicuous and there were also small sharp knives on the back of each knuckle that came out of the brass part of the gloves when the wrist control was turned.
Quick explanation: The gloves are fingerless, black gloves with set in brass knuckles in them. There is also a brass control that wraps around the wrist like a bracelet. When it is turned almost like a dial, small knives come out above the knuckles from the brass.\
Jay had gotten them on her birthday a couple years ago from her uncle who encouraged stuff like roaming in the woods. He had wanted her to join the military when she grew up and had given her all kinds of cool things like that before.
She showed Gilan how to use the gloves. What she didn't show him was the whole 'turning into knives thing'. She was hoping that he would let her keep them.
She had earlier showed him how to use brass knuckles and he had been fascinated with them and explained to her the strikers that the Rangers carried. Of course it had all been very boring because she already knew about them.
Anyway, Jay hoped that Gilan would let her keep her stuff but she knew he probably wouldn't. She tried any way.
"So Gilan, do you think that I could keep my knives?"
"I am sorry Jay, but with all the mysterious things that we have found, we need you to be questioned. Until you are clean, I am afraid you can't have your knives."
I swallowed and looked up at him. "Well that's ok I guess. I don't have anything to hide." That was the one of the biggest understatements of the century!
"O and Gilan?"
"Yes Jay?"
"I was just wondering who would be questioning me."
"That would be Halt."
So I have read all my chapters and I hate them. Do you guys like the story or should I just delete it all and start over?
