Chapter 11

As I was leaving Mallow's burrow, I was about to hop back to my burrow, until I noticed Hazel and Primrose was there.

"Oh... I'm sorry. Mallow followed me to my burrow and he was afraid, so I just sang him a lullaby and he went right to sleep." I explained.

"It's alright. We wanted to say thank you." Hazel understood.

"He sometimes have a hard time falling asleep at night." Primrose added.

"I could relate to his experiences with my own as a young boy. If I was afraid at night, I would usually have my parents sang me a lullaby until I fell a sleep. If a night terror had awoken me at night, I would lay down with Mom and Dad." I told them.

"Our children would come to our side if they were afraid." Primrose said.

"Even Fiver... if he has dreams that frighten him, he stays by my side for the night until he's better." Hazel mentions about his little brother.

"I hope you two have a goodnight sleep." I said.

"You too Mason." Hazel said.

"Goodnight Mason." Primrose said.

I hopped back to my burrow and laid down on my bed. I covered myself with a shirt I packed, now I could use as a blanket, which it made it more comfortable for me to sleep and keep me a bit warm for the cool breeze. In a dream, I was with my family until I was adopted by a warren of rabbits.

The next morning came, I joined with the Owsla for a morning patrol. We just ventured around the Down. At one point during our patrol, we passed by my house. I stopped and left behind. I couldn't be able to see the inside of the house since it was dark and didn't see anybody there. I could only think they maybe still trying to find me. I was about to enter the backyard, until Bigwig called me over. I hopped away and looked back, as I was going.

When we got back to Watership Down, I was invited to play a new game called Tail-Tag, which was the rabbit's version of a common game of "tag". The game was that one rabbit was the enemy and they had to tag them by the tail to have the other rabbit to be it. I was being tagged most times, until I was knocked onto the ground. Pipkin reaches his paw my arm. Somehow I felt a little ticklish.

"Please don't do that now." I warned Pipkin. "I'm very ticklish."

"You're really?" Pipkin realized my weakness.

"Oh boy." I added.

"Junior Owsla, CHARGE!" Pipkin orders the Junior Owsla to charge up at me. I was pinned to the ground and I was than tickled. I laughed so hard that I had to tell them to stop, but I still couldn't be able to stop laughing.

"All right children that's enough." Hazel commanded the kittens.

They listened and I had to have a break from their game. As they continued to play, I headed back up the hill and sat at a nearby shade. The sun was shining and the clouds were cleared.

"Nothing beats a regular sunny day to relax." I said.

"Absolutely, just lying on and the sun shining down on us." Bigwig added.

"I never manage of getting so much peace here, even a simple breeze blows in. I still like to enjoy this type of peace." I said.

"Days like this, where else you'll find it?" Hazel asked.

"Well, back in California, my family would go on camping trips once and a while at Bodega Bay." I answered.

"Bodega Bay?" Fiver asked.

"It's a Bay area in the Northern parts of California, there's sea smell, the breeze, hearing the harbor horns, more fascinating is the ocean scenery and noise both together." I explained.

"Another 'Great Water'?" Bigwig was curious.

"What's 'Great Water'?" I asked.

"It's a place where there's nothing but a vast of sea water." Fiver explained.

"I suppose you three might have been to at least once." I could imagine of them going to see the ocean.

"We had." Hazel said.

"Really? What's it like?" I asked.

"The Great Water we visit was where Kehaar came from and there are strange things that occur at the The Great Water. Like the water changing levels."

"Strange creatures like puffins and other seagulls, especially a creature pinched Hazel." Bigwig added.

"By a crab?" I asked as I turned towards Hazel.

"Yes, but I manage to shake it off and it went back into the sea." he said.

"Speaking about the water, the water was poisoned." Fiver added.

"The water is salt sea water, no one should never drink it." I warned him.

"Well I did without knowing it." Fiver said.

I giggled. I laid back by my head first and watched the skies having scattered clouds. My eyes began to close as I was about to day dream.

Suddenly, I was awoke from a yell. I looked around and saw Fiver was paralyzed with fear.

"Fiver, what's wrong?" I tried to speak with him.

"He can't be having them again." Bigwig said.

"Have what?" I asked.

Fiver screamed again.

The darkness makes his return. Terrorizing our friends.

The man, who understands, discovers. Two should be captured, as one would fall and returns. Fiver said.

He was saying that he might have been hallucinating or a premonition. He became dizzy and he past out on the grass. I hopped over to his side.

"Fiver! Fiver, are you alright?" I asked. I gently shook him, but he still wouldn't wake up.

"His visions came back." Hazel said.

"Visions? What do you mean?" I asked.

"Fiver could see things in the future that no one could." Hazel explained.

I looked back at Fiver and started to think why he has those visions. The kittens and Pipkin came up from the hill to see what was happening.

"Father what happened?" Hazel's kittens asked.

"Your Uncle Fiver just had a bad dream." Their father replied.

"We should take him inside until he awakes." I suggested.

"Good idea." Hazel picked up his little brother and hopped back inside his warren. The kittens followed in after Bigwig, I was the only left outside. I started to think that they know about his visions for long and they had been looking after him.

Later, I went back inside the warren and tried to find Fiver to see if he was awake. Some rabbits over by the Honeycomb were chattering among themselves regarding to Fiver if his visions came back. I started to look for his burrow through the tunnels, until I saw Hazel, Bigwig, Primrose, and Hannah were there. They were briefly talking about the clues of Fiver's vision.

"Excuse me, is Fiver okay?" I asked the group with concern.

Everyone looked at me. "He'll be fine." Hazel replied.

"How guys look after him, you all knew he had those visions from back when." I added.

"Well, lets say this wasn't his first vision, even before we arrived here." Bigwig said.

"But I mean, don't get me wrong, it doesn't sound like a curse, but it sound likes, his gift came when he was kitten." I tried to find reason.

"You're quite right there. Since after his birth, he started to have visions what it appears to be a head of us, before it came true. Some would instantly blame the messenger, before he became tolerate with it, Fiver thinks he was cursed." Hazel told me.

I looked back at the sleeping Fiver, I could imagine that he must have gone with this long as he can remember. Almost someone else's experience, but with no visions, but a disability that would affect and last in a lifetime.

"I think we should give Hazel and Fiver some privacy for a bit, until he wakes." Primrose suggested.

She, Hannah, and Bigwig started leave the burrow. I was hesitant for the fact that I was still worried if Fiver would not wake up at all. Hazel knew I was too concerned.

"Don't worry, Mason. He'll be alright until he wakes up and you'll know more soon." Hazel assured.

I slowly leave the burrow, as I look back I saw Hazel lie next Fiver, gave him a lick on his head and started to fall asleep next to him. I never seen brother-brother relationship that he had to deal with someone's vision. It connects to my relationship with my parents with my Autism, they would comfort me if I had a fit or I was upset. It shows the unconditional love that we have a common ground.

I was in my burrow worrying and thinking about Fiver, as I was lying on my bed. However, I could still hear Fiver's vision stuck into my head.

The darkness makes his return. Terrorizing our friends. The man, who understands, discovers. One should be captured, as one would fall and returns. I still hear inside my head.

I could instantly picture: something or someone returns they knew as a enemy, attack the warren I fear, a man, who understands rabbits and finds out something more (thinking it would me), and leading to someone or two captures, and someone would die and return. Instantly, I fear the whole warren's safety if something comes to harm's way.

"Are you alright my dear?" a voice came, as I look back and it was Blackberry.

"Me? Yeah." I answered.

"Are you sure, you look like you seen The Black Rabbit of Inle'?" she asked again.

"Who?" I asked.

"What rabbits believe like death." Hannah came in.

"A rabbit, who comes for a buck or doe, when there time has come, or they're near death." Blackberry further explained.

I could only think my mother's saying when God calls on someone when it's time near or approaching death, as someone is a believer. However, most times, death could come unexpectedly at the wrong time.

"I just can't stop thinking and worrying about Fiver and his vision." I said.

"He'll be alright, I'm sure Hazel would tell you." Blackberry said.

"I did hear a few things about what Fiver has gone through. But I could say more would come." I said, while I was placing my paw on my bracelet as I looked down at it.

Blackberry couldn't stop noticing me clinching on my bracelet and/or holding onto it for dear life.

"What's that?" Blackberry asked.

"My bracelet?" I asked.

"Yes... you're like playing with it or always swing around with it." Hannah said.

I chuckled. "Not exactly."

"Were you caught by man before escaping?" Blackberry asked.

"No that is not even close." I answered. I felt a little uncomfortable if she was trying to conceal my disability or she was trying to figure out about myself that I can't share.

I sighed. "I could only tell if we're some where that we're not near to anyone or a group."

"What's wrong?" she asked.

"It's just, I can't tell it to everyone, I wanted to tell to someone or a few that I can trust and rely on, on how to tell it."

Blackberry wanted to know what I have and on how she could help. "How about we go to a small broke and we could talk there."

"I think that'll be wonderful." I lightly smiled.

"Is it alright I join you?" Hannah asked.

I looked back at Blackberry and she nodded for a "yes". "We may need to be watched over unless something comes to us."

"Yes that's quite alright." I approve.

We started to follow through the tunnels and I quickly look over to Fiver's burrow and saw him awake, as his big brother nuzzled him for comfort. They quickly look and I smiled, before I was out of sight.