It took graverobber hours to track the kid down, she looked all grown up now. Her hair was her own, her curves had filled out nicely, and she held her pretty head high. "i am happy to see you have adjusted well kid."
"Graverobber," she smiled. She had changed more than he had expected, she now looked him in the eyes when she spoke. "have you come to join my resistance. A figure head like you would spark up some fight in a different population. One I have not been able to reach." He gave her his widest grin.
"actually, I came to invite you to join my resistance."
"you have a resistance?" her eyebrow lifted.
"OK, it's not mine exactly...and well, we don't have a plan as of yet. You could say it is more of an idea that a friend of mine has and she wants your help."
"a friend? I had no idea that graverobber had friends, never mind female ones. What exactly do you need to resist?" she lead him into a sitting room and gestured for him to make himself comfortable.
"we are resisting Amber killing her. She is my oldest and dearest friend and she is in danger like I have never known before." Shilo nodded her head, she had no doubt graverobber had seen his fair share of danger. She had been present during some of it.
"i thought you and amber were a thing." shilo ushered graverobber over to a couch and they sat together.
"not exactly."
"you are asking me to gather everyone that I know and fight to the death a family that has more power in their little fingers than I have had in my whole life, and that's all you have to say?" graverobber gave her another smile, she didn't return it.
Graverobber's voice took on a sing-song tone as be wove a tale of two girls. Their glorious friendship with a local graverobber, all the time giving no hint of the emotion he had show during his telling with shade. He told the story of Vivian's tragic death and didn't bat an eye.
"you killed her?" Shilo's eyes were wide in horror, her breaths came in heaving gasps.
"i prefer to think of it as assisted suicide," his voice dropped to barely a whisper. "if I think of it at all." Shilo continued to stair, mouth agape. "if I hadn't agreed to help her she would have done it her self some other way. Leaving poor shade to stumble upon her lifeless body. I can't stand to think of how it would have been for her. she will deny it till the end but that girl is a sensitive soul." his mouth lifted up at the corners.
"why did she want to die so badly?"
"like I said we were being chased...well the girls were. It was a way out for both of them."
"i thought you said shade was who you are trying to keep alive."
"i am, when she was gone I took Vivian's body and that of some girl I dug up. I put them in an old hover car, set it on fire and crashed it into amber's house."
"you what?" she was shocked.
"it was what Viv wanted. Amber did what I knew she would, she assumed the badly burnt body was Shade, and stopped any one from examining the bodies to closely. She believed both girls were dead and left shade alone." he smiled again, happy with the results of a difficult life.
"so how is it, after all that, Amber is after shade now?"
"it's my fault." he pinched the bridge of his nose and grimaced. "i was supposed to stay away. After the girls "death" I let Amber have her way with me for a while. I had to make sure she was ok."
"and was she?" shilo was riveted.
"she was pretending to be. Like me. She was alone, talking to worms."
"talking to worms?"
"that's not the point. Will you help me?"
"no," shilo grinned. "i will help that poor girl who's life you ruined."
"why does every one blame me for ruining her life?"
"because you did."
