Chapter2: Hunting Memories:
Ark sat at the dining table with a plate of some kind of food in front of him.
Ark looked over at Raven who did not seem to want to eat her food either.
Ark picked up the fork in front of him and stabbed it into a piece of meat and without thinking put the piece of meat into his mouth.
He started to chew up the piece of meat in his mouth when the vision of the man he killed and the people eating his flesh came back to him suddenly.
Ark's eyes went wide as he swallowed the meat in his mouth before he goy up from the table; Azar looked over at him to see that Ark's skin had gone pale.
"Ark are you okay?" Azar asked him
"sorry I cannot eat this" was all Ark said as he got up from the table and took off running down the hallway.
Raven looked over at Azar who look shocked; "is something wrong with the food?" Azarel asked
"no the food is fine I think it's Ark's stomach that's not liking the food" Azar replied as Raven finished her food and got up from the table.
"I'll go and check on him" she said as she left the table.
Ark knelt over the toilet; his breathing came in short gasps.
Raven stopped by the bathroom door and listened to see if Ark was alright.
Raven stood outside the door until she heard Ark throwing up.
"Ark you alright?" Raven asked
"no I feel like m gut is going to explode" came Ark's reply
"can I come in then?" Raven asked.
"The door is unlocked" Ark replied which was followed by him throwing up; Raven pushed the bathroom door open to find Ark kneeling for the toilet;
"what's wrong?" she asked him.
"I am throwing up" he replied sarcastically
"I meant what made you sick" Raven told him.
"Trust me you don't want to know because I'll be joining me by this toilet" Ark replied
"I have seen worse then you can say to me" Raven told him
"just trust me you don't want to know" was all he told her; Raven shook her head before she left the bathroom.
Once Ark felt better he to left the bathroom and went to his room.
Ark shut his bedroom door behind him and walked over to his large bad and fell down on the soft warm bed but he did not dare to fall asleep.
Ark lay in bed he rolled back and forth trying to fall asleep but the memory of people eat human flesh came back to him and he soon was snapped awake again.
Ark rolled back onto his back before he got up and walked over to his door.
Ark pulled the door open and walked out into the hallway before he shut the door behind him before he started to head towards the main hallway.
Ark stepped into the main hallway; he looked around the dark hallway before he found the door that lead outside Ark walked up to the door and grabbed it's handle and pulled the door open with all his strength.
The door opened with a eerie grinding sound before Ark stepped outside shutting the door being him.
Raven woke with a started when she heard someone walk past her window.
Raven pushed the covers off her body and slid out of her bed; she grabbed her cloak and swung it over her shoulders before she walked over to her window to see who was up and outside.
She pulled the window curtains open and peered out into the darkness of the courtyard to Ark walking toward the pool of thousand reflections.
Raven unlocked her window and pushed it open; once she had gotten it all the way open she jumped through the window and out into the courtyard.
Raven followed Ark until he came to a stop by the pool's edge; Raven walked up beside him and peered into the misty water of the pool.
"Can't sleep?" Raven asked him; Ark turned his head to look at her before he sighed
"I can never sleep" he told her.
"Talk to me tell me about what's hunting you" Raven said
"why do you worry about me?" Ark asked
"because I can" Raven replied.
"I see…so you really want to know what's hunting me?" Ark asked
Ark picked up a stone and thrown it into the misty water of the pool; he watched the stone sink to the bottom of the pool before he sighed and turned to face Raven.
"I normal don't like to tell others about my life outside of the city walls" Ark said
"I can understand that if it bothers you to talk about it but if you don't tell someone soon it'll eat at you until you go insane" Raven replied
"oh that's reassuring" Ark said sarcastically
"I am only telling the truth" Raven replied.
"I know and I should not get made at you but I just hate talking about my days beyond the walls" Ark said with a long sigh afterwards.
"you don't have to tell me everything because I just want to know what made you skin today" Raven replied; Ark nodded as he started to tell Raven everything that happen in the caves he lived in.
He told her how he had killed a man to keep this man from stealing the food that was for those younger and sicker then he was. Then he went on to tell her about how every person in that cave but himself and his friends started to ripped flesh off the dead man and eat it regardless of it being human flesh.
Once he was finished telling Raven what happen he notice the look on Raven's face a look of pure shook and disgust.
"I told you that it was better if you did not know" Ark told Raven
"what you told me about the caves is most disgusting but all the same I am glad you told me for now I know what you went through so now I can help you to start to heal and get over though days in the cave" Raven replied
Ark nodded as he got up and screeched his arms and lags; Raven got up and looked up at the sky to see the moon had a odd mist around it. "Well if you sill think that you cannot sleep this night then lets go to the library and talks some more about something else to take you mind off your hunting memories" Raven told Ark.
Raven walked ahead of Ark who stood dumb founded over Raven's sudden kindness towards him; Raven looked over her shoulder at Ark who shook off a strange feeling he had before he followed Raven back into the manor.
