Heroes
Chapter 3: Insanity
Dio awoke when a warm pressure was applied to his face. He saw that it was Kiona applying a warm rag to the injury on his head. He wished she wouldn't, but she liked to take care of people, so he let her. Plus, the two were the same age, 16, and he had a crush on her. Rian was 18 and he liked to tease Dio about it. Dio turned his head and saw Rian burying the man that the orc had killed. "Stop moving!", Kiona pinched his arm. "Who was that man?", Dio questioned her. "I don't know, but Rian must have known him well, to have screamed at the orc like that." "This man isn't who I was screaming about,...", Rian cut in, but Dio finished his brother's sentence, "...it was father..." Kiona was almost lost for words. "How is your Uncle Alon taking it?", Kiona asked in a hoarse whisper. Dio and Rian had been so close to Alon, they called him uncle when they were younger, and it stuck. All was silent. It seemed the birds and the animals just all stopped singing and rustling in the bushes. "Oh, no...", whispered Kiona. "Just shut up!" And with that, Rian ran off and vanished into the nearby forest.