there is a little bit of grossness at the end.
The fire crackled.
Piper jumped.
Leo studied her in concern. She looked alert and ready to run at any slight movement.
"What's up?" He asked causally.
Piper whirled around, Katoptris unsheathed, ready to strike. Her eyes followed Leo gaze to her knife and lowered it.
"Why are you so…," he searched for the word. "Jumpy?"
She stared at him for a full minute before giving a forced, false laugh. "Nothing! Nothing's wrong! Nothing whatso-!"
She jumped up and spun on her heel, grinded the gravel under them. She spun back to face Leo, who looked innocent as he dropped another rock. She growled and sat back down.
"Leo," she scolded through clenched teeth. "That is really not funny."
"But seriously," he pressed. "What's wrong?"
She shifted her feet as she stared at them. "Well, see," she mumbled. She looked up at him and continued in a whisper.
"I was looking in Katoptris' blade when I heard and felt some presence that chilled my bone to the core." She looked scared, more scared then she had ever looked in her life. "Something laughed and its laugh made me almost drop it. The laugh was so…corrupted. It was filled with happiness and full of eagerness as well."
Leo shook his head. "I'm confused. You say the laugh is corrupted; now you say it's happy?"
Piper nodded. "It's both. I guess…it's happy in a bad way. Anyway, I had had enough, so I was putting the knife down when it happened."
Piper gulped and continued.
"I saw a flash of it in the corner."
"A flash of what?"
"A flash of…of…a glimpse of a bloody pulp of what I think used to be a head in the jaws of a fanged being. Leo, the head was still screaming."
I'm sorry, it looked like a lot more on paper.
I have to go babysit early, but I still have 5 more chapters to be typed out, so I'll hopefully have them published by the end of the week. ;D