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Colors: A Prelude to Death-Lies

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The sun was setting, its rays burning into a mixture of red, orange, and pinkish colors.  The town that had been attacked by the raiders was almost nothing but rubble.  Few buildings remained standing, and Jack and Jesse wondered if anyone was left alive.  The temperature had dropped considerably from the noon, although considering the mid-day, made evening just perfect.  The wind had picked up a little as well, but no stronger than to flap the loose ends of Jesse's robes.  Both him and Jack continued to walk towards the center of town.  This was an extremely odd situation for them.  One, this was the first actual fight with someone with mana, not to mention there were four of them they had to deal with.  Second of all, aside from a very minute, very faded feeling, they could not sense their mana anywhere.

 "Jack, do you sense them anywhere?"

 "Not really."

The two continued to slowly turn their heads, as they walked further into the ruins of the town.  They paused for a short while, in front of a jagged piece of a destroyed building with shards of cloths hanging from the crevices.

 "Gyah…this place is giving me the creeps." Jack mumbled.

Jesse's eyes darted back and forth, "Just keep your guard up.  They're probably using some kind of magic to cover up their tracks."

Jack reached out to the grab one of the pieces of cloth flapping in the gentle breeze.  As his fingers rubbed against the dirty concrete, the piece of wall collapsed in, making a loud crumbling sound.

 "Jack!" Jesse hissed under his breath.

 "Sorry!" Jack replied.

They heard it before they saw it.  The slight 'twang' of a thick, tighten piece of twine, and the split second 'whoosh' of an incredibly fast object.  As Jack turned around, it was too late for him to dodge the shaft of the arrow.

Elsewhere, on the outskirts of town, the little girl is patiently kicking tiny rocks as she leans against a tree.  Tay, however, isn't being as calm.

 "Damn him…leaving me here like this.  That jerk doesn't know what he's getting into, but that's because he NEVER does.  He's always lost without me.  Like a big, stupid baby, that's what he is.  Meh, why should I care, he wants to get killed, I'll let the little bastard." She started to trail off as her head sank lower and lower, her hair covering up her eyes as she mumbled incoherently but aggressive.  Finally, she snapped, "THAT DOES IT!  I'M GOING TO HELP HIM!"

She bolts upright, only to be cut back to her knees.  But she struggles to get her feet, and wobbly tries to walk.  The little girl, who was startled by the outburst, quickly ran to her side and grabbed her sleeve as Tay was screaming obscenities.  She quickly glared down at her, very, furious.

 "What?!" She bellowed.  The girl, although scared at first, stood her ground and stomped her foot.

 "Lady!  The man in the green said to stay here!  He asked me to keep an eye on you…and…" she blushed as her fists tightened, "That's what I'm going to do!"

Tay had her fair share of surprises, one would think she would be getting tired of them.  Her mouth gaped wide open in shock (yet again), and she stared out into the rubble, both of the guy's bodies hidden behind it.  She grumbled, and plopped herself down, her arms crossed.  She then shot a glare back at the girl, stern as ever, and asked, "And what's with the sudden change of attitude for you kid?  You become brighter than the sun when Jesse is involved."

 "NOTHING YOU JERK!"

Blood splattered from the joint in Jack's shoulder as the thin arrow penetrated the other side of his shoulder.  His pupils shrunk, as the pain that ran through his body instantly drove him into shock.

 "JACK!" Jesse yelled, running quickly to keep Jack from collapsing.  He faintly heard the same noise again.  He looked up to see the pale woman pulling the twine on her bow backwards.  Jesse threw out his hand towards her, and just as she let the arrow go, a thick Wall of Trees sprang out from the ground.  She lowered her bow and gazed uninterestingly into the mess of trees.

On the other side, Jesse began lightly smacking Jack, "Jack….Jack!  Wake up!"

Jack's head quickly shook itself awake, but only as quickly scrunched in pain as gripped his shoulder and arrow.

 "Jack, we have no time for that!"

 "Shut up!  I can't move my arm with this thing…ARRRGHHH!" He yelled as he ripped the arrow clean out of his shoulder.  He growled fiercely as he stood up, clutching his shoulder.  It wasn't long before two explosions sent the Wall of Trees ablaze, pushing Jack and Jesse backwards.  As they looked up through the billowing smoke, the two hulking men with thick armor burst through the top of the smoke, looking down on Jesse and Jack.  Jesse thought he heard something, but was distracted when he saw the red balls of heat in their hands.  As they flung it at them, they both shot away from each other as both balls collided on the ground and exploded.  Jack rolled on the ground, till he stood on his feet.  He heard another hiss, as the arrow narrowly missed his face.

 "DAMMIT!" He yelled, "WHAT'S YOUR PROBLEM LADY!?" He looked over to see one of the brutes fling another ball of heat at him.  Once again he sprinted away as the ball of heat collided with a wall behind him, sending chunks of rock all over the place.

Jesse raised his hands in the air and flung them down.  The ground burst open as large green vines raced across and in the stone streets.  The large warrior soon became caught in the onslaught, and the vines lifted him up and off the ground, as they tightened around his body.  He began to struggle, only to be resisted by Jesse's control over the vines.  Jesse's hand was pointed at them, and slowly began to make a fist, slowly crushing the warrior.

He struggled some more, then stopped altogether.  He glared at Jesse, and put his hand to his chest.  Jesse heard the sound again, and he wasn't distracted enough to not notice it.  It was a 'whirring' sound, like an engine starting up, except high-pitched.  When the warrior brought his hand away from his chest, it exploded in another ball.  But this was not red or glowing like the other ones.  It was a thick black, almost smoky ball.  Jesse became distracted again, as the warrior flung it at him.  Jesse held out his hand, and the ball bounced off it straight into the air.

 "OW!" Jesse yelled, "What the…" As the ball came down, Jesse ignorantly caught it in his hands.  "This…this isn't a spell!  It's metal, like a…." As he pondered carelessly over it, the ball shot electricity through Jesse's body.  He screamed in torment as the electricity attacked his mind.  He gripped his head in anguish and fell to his knees.  He felt like his brain had been hit by a shovel.

The vines holding the warrior, quickly browned and died.  The warrior jumped down and sprinted at Jesse.

But the warrior lost his chance.  As Jesse began to recover from the pain, his eyes painfully looked over to his left.  As they widened, he felt a now physical pain collide with his chest and the warriors kick sent him scraping the ground.  He gripped his robe around his stomach as he opened his eyes and looked at Jack.  He was desperately dodging both sword and arrow.

 "JACK!" Jesse yelled painfully, "JACK!  THEY'RE NOT WIZARDS AT ALL!"

Jack dodged a swing of the sword and quickly looked at Jesse in confusion, "What?!" Another arrow barely missed him, as he took up fighting again.

Jesse clenched his fist, as a thick layer of wood and thorns covered his arm.  He threw it upwards at the warrior as the warrior's scimitar came down.  A large crack was heard as they collided, and both pushed at each other.

 "JACK…they don't have…any mana at all!"  The warrior turned his scimitar, and shoved Jesse's arm out of the way.  He tried to bring it around again and cut him down the middle, but Jesse rolled with his arm.  He focused on his other arm, and another thick layer of thorn and wood formed.  "That's why we can't sense anything!" The warrior swung his sword and Jesse deflected it, and the cycle continued, "They're using…ARTIFACTS!"

Everything seemed to freeze at the moment, even the woman was still holding on to one of her arrows with the wire pulled backwards.

 "They know our secret," She said to her companion, "What should we do?"

He smiled, "Keep doing what you have been doing," He put his hands behind his back, "But…." When he brought them back out, they were covered with large molten rock, in the shape of hands.  They were inversely proportional to the rest of his body, as he created a fist with both hands, "I'll have to join I guess."

Tay had already chewed down her fingernails, and would have gotten her toenails if possible.  Instead, she gnawed violently on the collar of her shirt.  The little girl, sitting across from her, patiently kicked rocks on the ground.

 "They need help," Tay mumbled.

 "They'll be fine," The little girl added.

 "They can't even walk properly."

 "That has nothing to do with it."

 "Jack's too dumb and Jesse's too ignorant."

 "I don't know about that."

A large crashing sound made them jump.  They looked into the rubble to see a pillar of smoke rising above the remains of the city.  Both of the girl's eyes widened, and looked at each other.  They gulped.

As one of the warriors scimitars came down, Jack caught his wrist.  He held it for a minute, before he swung under his arm, and elbowed him right in the stomach.  The warrior staggered for a while, but quickly regained his balance.  Also quick, was Jack.  No sooner than he recovered than Jack resumed his attack.  His blows backed his mana, not to mention his speed, the warrior had no time to recover with each punch.  But as he kept getting pushed backwards, another hiss of an arrow stopped him completely.  Jack had been hit again, this time, in the other shoulder.  The warrior quickly recovered and slammed Jack in the jaw with the hilt of his sword, sending him careening across the ground.

 "JACK!" Jesse yelled.  He ran to help him, but saw that the thinner man, their leader, and leaped into the air, and had his hands clasped together.  Jesse was able to dodge his swing, but the explosion that resulted from the gigantic gauntlets sent him skidding across the ground as well.  As he struggled to get onto one arm, a ball of heat, rather, an artifact, impacted the ground several yards away from his body.  He is once again sent flying, this time, landing on boulder at the forest's edge.  He painfully opens his eyes…and views his salvation.

Another arrow hissed through the air, missing Jack's thrashing leg.  As he rips out the second arrow from his body, his eyes glow a burning red.  He screams as he jumps to his face, sending a massive shockwave around his body.  He turns to see the warrior hurling another explosive artifact at him.  Jack, his eyes still red, instantaneously grabbed a nearby rock, and flung it at the artifact.  They collided in mid-air, creating a massive explosion.  The warrior shielded his eyes from the explosion, Jack sustained it.  But another arrow ripped through his flesh, and his left arm was now hit.  Jack looked in pain down at his arm, and a fireball began to grow in his right hand.  He flung himself around.

 "KNOCK IT OFF YOU BITCH!" He yelled as he hurled the fireball at the woman.  She stopped pulling her bow back at the oncoming fireball.  She leaped backwards as the ball impacted the ground below her.

Jack, from his view, looked as if he got her.  But from the black smoke, she flew out of the smoke.  With a gigantic metallic sail almost, Jack furrowed his brow to learn she had a backup plan.

Jesse, meanwhile, looked down at the large rock.  Then looked behind him to see that the warrior was charging.  Jesse quickly reached down behind the rock…and grabbed a small piece of mold and threw it at the warrior.

In mid swing, the warrior hesitated as the mold landed, and stuck, to his chest.  He looked down at his chest, then back at Jesse, who was concentrating on the mold.  The warrior smiled, and brought his sword back a little farther.  Then stopped.  He couldn't move, his upper body was becoming heavy.  He looked down again, and noticed that the mold was getting larger.  Soon, it was almost as if it was alive, as it bubbled its way up his arm.  But it didn't stop there, it engulfed his hand, and the entire sword, then it moved downwards, wrapping around his waist, legs and feet.  Not long after, his entire body was covered in a mold almost alive.  Then it stopped.  The mold, as quickly as it covered his body, died away.  Not without taking the warriors armor, sword, and other artifacts hidden on his body.  Left with nothing but his trunks, and frightened at his now vulnerable state, he covered himself, and ran off into the woods.  Jesse watched with amusement, until a shadow loomed over his position.  He barely dodged the earth shattering punch by the thinner man.

The pale woman continued to hover over Jack's position, pelting him with arrows while he fended off the brute strength of the warrior.  However, Jack was doing a lot better than before.  In fact, to the woman, it looked like Jack wasn't even trying to arrow, they missed him naturally.  She cursed herself, as she readied another arrow.

Jack's eyes continued to burn with that intense red flare, as he resorted to swatting the sword away instead of dodging it.  Although certainly not stronger than the warrior, he soon used speed and agility to strike the sword at the right time.  As arrows whizzed by his constantly moving body, he saw his opportunity.  As the warrior's scimitar came down, Jack threw his hand up, catching the warrior in the wrist, stopping both arm and stopped.  With his other arm, Jack thrust it forward into the breast plate of the warrior, and just as quickly ripped it out.  The warrior staggered backwards, and looked at the gaping hole in his armor.  He brushed, what appeared to be, a shattered golden wheel, with five stones each one color of mana.  The warrior looked up at Jack and growled, only to see that Jack's eyes had reverted back to normal, and he was bouncing a sphere in his hand.  The sphere had a tiny golden sundial in one place, and all around its edge were small crevices linking small holes to other holes.

 "You should be ashamed of yourself, pretending to be wizards." The warrior's face scrunched in fear, as the sphere in Jack's hand began to glow red, "You pussy." He flung the now ball of heat at the warrior, who effortlessly tried to run the in the other direction, in exploded on his backside, sending him screaming through the air.  His sword, a scimitar, flipped several times in the air, before sticking the sword end straight into the ground.  As Jack smiled to himself, another arrow hissed by him, this time, catching his right cheek.  He smacked his face as his eyes grew red with fury, "GOD YOU'RE ANNOYING!" He screamed, as he thrust his hand outwards and created a half-fist.  The woman, already preparing another arrow, and suddenly been jerked.  The arrow went flying into the distance, as she looked up at her metal sail.  She then noticed, it was getting quite warmer.  Her eyes grew with fear as she realized that her sail had begun to vibrate uncontrollably, and also appeared to be melting.  Jack thrust his hand even further towards the woman, yelling, "DETONATE!"

With that, the sail exploded in a spray of fire, as the woman screamed the whole trip to the ground, and landed with a loud thud.  The screaming stopped, coincidentally.

Jesse, not much further away, had resorted to fist fighting.  In a very sloppy boxer stance, most likely taught by Jack, his mind race thoroughly.

 "Okay, left, right, left, right, God please don't let me trip." His opponent, also in a boxer like stance, his sloppy for the large gauntlets on his hands, paced around Jesse impatiently.  "Concentrate Jesse, concentrate.  Opening…opening…who am I trying to kid, I have no idea what an opening would be." Jesse yelled as he started.  In a boxer like attack, began to periodically jab the large gauntlets, crunching them little-by-little, the man, was actually quite surprised by how much he was being pushed back.

 "Good…good…keep him on the defensive and, uh oh," He thought as he saw the large right hand raised high and far behind him, "Okay, calm down, keep your left arm up, and…"

WHAM!

Jesse was sent careening off the ground several times, actually colliding into a lone piece of stone.  When he stopped, he grabbed his left arm and began to thrash on the ground.

 "Wow!" He said aloud.  "That was stupid!"

The same looming shadow appeared above his head, as he looked up to the clasped hands ready to crush his skull…neck and chest.  Jesse felt a hand grab the hood of his robe, and yank him backwards.  This smash sent more debris into the air, and actually create a small crater in the ground.

Jack and Jesse somersaulted away from the man, Jack jumping to a fighting stance, Jesse rolling onto his right side, still grabbing his arm.

 "Ya'll right Jess?!" Jack yelled.

 "Can't…feel…left arm!" Jesse painfully hissed out.  Jack scrunched his face in sympathy.  He then noticed the man, his face covered with sweat, and his hands planted in the ground.  He was furious, completely ignoring all signs of exhaustion he was showing.  He ripped his hands out of the ground, and held them in a way that seemed like those were his actual hands.

 "You think you've won, don't you?" He growled.  Jack and Jesse looked at each other, then shrugged.  "Funny, real funny.  But you won't find it very funny after I'm through with you!" Jack and Jesse didn't know what he was talking about, until they saw what was in his hands.  Yet another artifact, also inproportional to the rest of his body, minus the hands, had appeared.  In his right hand, was a large silver warhammer.  With those gauntlets, he held it like it was nothing, as he swung it around with that hand, and brought it down to the other hand.  With both hands, he held it in a fighting and was about ready to charge.

 "You punks should be so lucky!  I only use it for emergencies you know!" Jack seemed a little bedazzled, "Do you know how LONG it took me to get this?!  For that matter how much it COST?!  This thing isn't of this plane you know…."  Both Jesse and Jack became stunned for a while.  Jack snapped out it, and saw the scimitar sticking out of the ground.  He rushed to pick it up, and returned to Jesse's side.

 "Ha!  Do you really think that puny sword can beat, not only a Loxodon Warhammer, but a pair of Vulshok Gauntlets as well.  I'd love to see you try."

Jack's stern face turn to a puzzled look, he looked at the sword, twirled it, caught it again.  And looked at the man.  With the same weird look, he winded back on one leg, ALL the way back.

 "Are you going to throw it at me?!  YOU REALLY ARE STUPID AREN'T YOU?!"

With tremendous force, Jack DID throw the sword at him.  As the man placed up his left arm to block it, a sneer appeared on Jack's face.
 "Let's put some oomph into it, SHRAPNEL BLAST!" He yelled quickly, thrusting his hand out.  Right before the sword impacted the gauntlet, it exploded, with much more force than the sail did.  As the dust from the surrounding ground cleared, Jesse gasped in shock.

 "Jack look!" He yelled, through the pain.  The man was still standing there, his left arm covering his face.  "He's still…"

 "Not for long," Jack interrupted, still sneering.  Indeed, Jesse noticed something different about the man.  He was trembling feverishly, and Jesse swore he heard a faint whimpering.  His right hand, holding the warhammer, wearily let go of it, making a heavy metallic thud as it hit the ground.  His right arm fell limp, just as his left arm was about to.  When it did dropped, it revealed his face, a mess of blood and large to medium steel slivers protruding all over.  In a comical/morbid sense, the shrapnel had his mouth pinned to a very wide grin.

 "Ya…you…" He didn't even get out the last part as he collapsed to his knees, then his body followed.  Jack stood there, him and Jesse both watching the lifeless body carefully.  Then Jack dropped to his knees, his legs sprawled out behind him, and panting heavily.  Jesse also began to feel the relief of the victory, as he too began to breathe heavily.  They both looked at each other and smiled, then laughed.  Jesse to a deep chested, heavily sustain laugh, and Jack to a full-blown cackle.  This was stopped immediately.

 "YOU BASTARDS!" A semi-familiar voice called from their left.  They looked over to the pale woman, her clothes tattered, her pale face now a mess of dirt and blood, her left hand, covering a gaping wound in her stomach, and in her right hand a steadily glowing red sphere.

 "Jack…."

 "Don't even bother, I can't move my legs."

 "DIE BOTH OF YOU!" She yelled with tremendous anger and she flung the ball straight at them.  But in mid-air, the sphere lost it's glow and dissembled itself in mid-flight.  The pieces landed among Jack and Jesse, who were sheltering themselves for the expected blast.  They slowly opened their eyes to see the tiny pieces scattered among them.  They blinked twice, looked up to the woman, whose face was focused on something behind them, then looked behind them.

 "TAY!" They yelled.

She smiled cockily, then looked down to her left, "See?  I told you they would get themselves killed without me."  The little girl poked her head from behind a pile of rubble, and looked over at Jesse, blushing.

Jack and Jesse smiled, and both of them flopped on the ground, "Thank God!" They yelled.

 "That's…not…POSSIBLE!" The woman yelled, only for her body to be thrust backwards as she flinched violently.  When she opened her eyes, her body was covered with a glowing, neon green strands.

 "Coral Net," Tay told her as she lowered her hand, "Dangerous to creatures summoned through white and green mana, harmless to you." The woman struggled her upper body to break free, "Course, that doesn't mean you can barely move."

The woman screamed in frustration, as she lost her balance and tumbled backwards down the hill.  As she hit the bottom, she wearily climbed to her feet, and sprinted off towards the woods, nearly falling down several times on the way.

As Tay walked over to the boys, the girl hiding behind her, Jack looked up at her and smiled.

 "I guess I owe you…."

POW!

He didn't even finish as she kicked him hard in the shoulder.

 "Jerk." She said, struggling to hold her tears, "That's for being a jerk and going off without me."

 "Ow…." He said.

The woman continued to stumble blindly through the woods, her hair and clothes getting caught up in branches.  One large branch managed to snag the net, as she violently ripped through it  and continued to ran, the net shriveling up and disintegrating.  She continues to grasp her stomach as she ran full sprint through the woods.  Finally, she could run no more.  She slowed very quickly to a walk, and leaned against a tree, then forcefully threw her back against it, and sat down.  As she sat there, she panted heavily for a while, before a pain shot through her and she grasped her stomach.

 "I…I'll kill them…kill…damn them…." She said as she gripped harder.  The pain subsided, as she loosened her grip.  "Jack…Jesse…and…and…Tay…damn them all.  They will pay."

 "Oh is that so?" A sinister voice came from her side.  She whirled up to a weak fighting stance.

 "Who's there?!" She yelled.  There was no answer, only the hiss of mana and a quick death as her life energy was literally sucked from her body.

 "Where do you hurt Jack?" Tay asked him.

 "Will you kiss it?" He asked.

 "With the back of my hand, yes."

Jack was being helped up by Tay, while Jesse was already in an upright position, the little girl holding his arm.  His breath's had considerably slowed down, but his left arm was still in a great deal of pain.

 "Easy on the shoulder kid," he said as the girl tried to position him comfortably.

The girl, looking like she was about to explode like one of those spheres, said, "Kayla…."

Jesse opened his eyes and looked at her curiously, "Huh?"

 "Kayla…my name is…Kayla." She said looking away from him and blushing.

Jesse blinked a couple times, then began to chuckle.

 "What?" Kayla asked.  This only made Jesse laugh even harder as he reared backwards to a loud bellow.  "What?!  What's so funny?!" She screamed in rage.  She had let him drop, landing on his left side.  There was a quick 'ow' before Jesse returned to his hysterical laughter.

 "YOU…YOU JERK!  YOU'RE THE ONE WHO ASKED!" She screamed yet again as Jack and Tay just watched them nervously.  Then they notice two figures coming out of the woods.

 "Sarah!" They yelled, which was all that was needed to get Jesse to stop.  His head shot up, and indeed, Sarah was standing there, with a fairly uncaring Drake next to her.  Jesse struggled to sit upright again, as another pain shot through his left side.  He flinched, and nearly fell on his face.  He struggled to get up, but for some reason the pain was too much.  Then a gentle force pushed him up and Sarah looked him right in the face.

 "Are you alright Jesse?" She asked, "What happened here?"

Jesse's turn to redden, "N-nothing….just…some trouble makers, th-that's all…."

 "Here, let me help you.  You'll be fine in a jiffy." She said smiling, as she gently rolled up his sleeve and began to apply her healing powers.  While she concentrated on his wounds, he concentrated on her.  He just couldn't, he couldn't give up on her, just now at least.

 "S-Sarah…." He said.

She stopped and looked at him, "Yes?"

Just because he wouldn't give up on her, doesn't make him a coward, "N-nothing…nevermind."

She smiled, "Okay." And continued to heal him.

Jack and Tay both looked at him with disappointment, as he looked at them, then looked away from all of them.

Several days later, it went on that there were survivors among the rubble.  Whether hidden beneath crushed stones, or tucked safely away in hidden basements, there were survivors.  The following days passing, the wounded were healed, the dead were buried and mourned, and at their leave, the town celebrated.

 "While it is true, that most of the village was destroyed, and we lost many lives, that we do have hope for the future." The Town Elder spoke with the survivors, "In defeating and driving off those rogues, it is safe to say this town is protected  for a good while.  There aren't many occurrences around these parts, so it IS safe to say we are going to be here a little while longer."

There was a cheer through the crowd, as the apprentices, now cleaned up, clothes and all, watched on from the hilltop above the town.

 "Cliché, even for us," Jack noted as he looked at the others.

 "Let's get going," Drake said, impatiently, "I'd rather not hang around here much longer."

 "Ditto, there's a hell of a lot more I got to see." Tay said joyfully, as they trudged down the other side of the hill, Jesse continued to look off into the distance.  He sighed and turned around.  A snap of a twig stopped him, as he looked back and saw Kayla running up the hill.  She stopped on a dime as her hands went to her knees and began to pant heavily.

 "Hey Kayla.  What can I do for you?  Hey now, we already told you you can't come with us."
She looked up smiled and shook her head, "No, I'm over that now, just a present for you."

He raised his eyebrows in slight astonishment, she reached into her pocket and handed him a small, poorly wrapped gift box.  He took it, and gazed over it a little.

 "Don't open it yet, just get a little further away before you do, okay?" She said, still smiling, but also a slight dew appeared her eyes, Jesse noticed.  She turned around and ran back towards her town.  Jesse blinked a couple times, looking down at the box.

 "HEY JESSE!  GET YOU ASS OVER HERE!" He heard Jack's meticulous voice call to him.  He jogged down the mountain, hiding his present in his sleeve.

As they continued downwards, Jack and Tay talking feverishly, Drake taking lead, social as usual, and Sarah not far behind.  Curiously, Jesse secretly took out his present and carefully opened it up.  Inside, was a note, and a fairly long, off-white ribbon.  He looked at the ribbon, then at the note.

 'Jesse, thank you for rescuing me and my mom.  I know it isn't much, and I can't think of a world what you would do with this, but I'm sure you'll find something of good use for it.  Your friend, Kayla.'

"Well, that's sweet," Jesse thought to himself, "But what am I going to do with a…" He stopped in mid-thought and looked at Sarah, her long hair hanging loose around her back.  He smiled to himself, "Hey Sarah, can you come here a minute?"

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