Chapter 14. No flames please.
14
The wind felt good against my face. The world just seemed to blur past me as I headed for the lake. I gracefully moved into a diving position and plunged into the cool water. I didn't resist; I just let the water engulf me. I slowly sank down to the bottom of the lake, waiting. I kept my eyes closed. When I opened them again, I was in a huge field. It was hard to tell if it was day or night here, but I never thought too much about it. I had been here once before, when my mother took me, if you are ever feeling uncertain about life, this is the place to go. She said. She never told Dying thorn about this, because he was not old enough. Every Appian learns about this when they are every time you visit it takes one year away from your life. Anyway, I was in a huge field. I was sitting down, so I stood up. I looked around and saw two figures coming towards me. It was my father and the king. They were two of the most precious people to me.
"Night hunter! It's such a nice surprise!" my father said. He didn't touch me, because he couldn't. He was dead. This was the place of meeting, or passing through, as the humans call it. This is where the humans thought they were decided if they went to heaven or hell. This is really just place where beings could speak with their loved ones. Only speak, not touch. If beings did touch, they would only pass through each other and both beings would feel only sadness. A few humans know how to get here, but it was almost impossible to get back.
"Hello father. Vicktor" I said bowing. The king was like a second father to me. When my father and mother were gone, he was there, treating me like his own child.
"Why are you here? Did you just miss us?" my father joked.
"No. I did miss you, but I need to ask you something." I said.
"What is it? You know you can ask us anything" my father smiled, showing off his perfect pointed teeth.
"Well, Dying thorn's in jail because he tried to kill the queen, but he said he was being controlled by an immortal, the same one I killed, and holly and Sarren know about me and what I am before their time, because I was bad at hiding myself to her and then I got banned from seeing her, and while I was gone, the vampires came and said something about one of their sisters was acting weird and it turned out that Paul, holly's boyfriend was the immortal, and I killed him and now mother's back and she wanted to see thorn, so I did and I I'm in love with black ride and I don't know what to do" I said in a big rush. I stood there, waiting for an answer. The three of us, just standing there, not touching, but wanting to.
"Well seems like you just need to relax and do things one at a time. You're still young, and you still have a lot of things to learn." said Vicktor, speaking for the first time.
"But what should I do first?" I asked.
"Do what you think is the most important, honey" said my father. He took a step back, his weapons clanging loudly. I nodded.
"Thank you both. I'm glad I can see you like this, because I wouldn't have known what to do if you weren't here to help" I said.
"No problem. Once thorn is out of jail, show him how to come here." Said my father.
"I will. Oh, and I forgot to tell you, I'm the youngest official warrior in the world" I said, smiling.
"That's my girl" my father said. "Tell your mother I send my love!"
"I will. Good bye father. Good bye Vicktor." I said, taking a long bow and returned to life.
I was still at the bottom of the lake, but I still had the same amount of breath I had when I went in, so I calmly swam to the surface. When my head broke the surface of the water, I saw Black ride hovering above me, his black wings beating hard.
"What the hell do you think you were doing?" he yelled.
"Help me back to our room and I'll tell you about it!" I yelled back. I was lifted out of the water by black, and carried into the window I stumbled on the way in, and I fell. Dripping wet, I went in to the bath room to get a towel. I found one under the sink. Above the sink was a mirror and when I looked into it, I didn't see me. I saw a tired looking Appian, dripping wet, and had had looked like she had been dragged through a hedge backwards. I sighed. I really needed to get some rest. I walked back into the room, towelling my hair. The feather was still tied into my hair, so I just left it in. black ride was sitting on his bed, picking out stray feathers, and so was my mother. And holly and Sarren. Hope was there too, sitting on the floor.
"What?" I said sitting down on black's bed, since there was any room on mine.
"You jumped out the window!" holly cried.
"Yeah, so?" I asked. "You taught me that, mother. I needed some help, so I got it"
"How can you get help from the bottom of a lake? Holly asked dumbfounded.
"I'll tell you later" I said, not really planning to. Hope's eyes got a little red round the edges.
"Someone's going to come here, knock on the door and ask us to go down to the grand hall to watch the trial of Dying thorn in the next five seconds." Hope said. And guess what? five seconds later someone came knocking at the door asking us to come down to the grand hall to watch the trial of Dying thorn.