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I couldn't understand why the burning of the fire was lasting so long? If it hurt so much, didn't that mean that I was already close to dying? Why was it taking so long to die?
I also heard voices. I tried to open my eyes, and I only succeeded once before the darkness surrounded me again. They were arguing amongst themselves.
"Why did you save her? Why didn't you just let her die?" one of the warriors hollered.
"Because she's sick, Jon. She diserves to live." a calm voice said.
"But why? She's the enemy, Robert! Didn't you ever think of that? What's our sergeant going to say when he hears about this?"
"I don't know, but I'm not going to find out."
"And how do you suppose you're going to 'not find out'?" the one I assumed was Jon said.
"Because I'm not going back to him," Robert replied confidently.
"What? Are you crazy? It would only take him a few days to find you, no matter where you go!"
"So?"
"So? Do you have a death wish?"
"No, maybe. I'm not sure."
"You're seriously nuts. You know that? Totally demented."
"I'm glad that you're finally seeing things my way."
"So, what are you going to do with her after she is through her change?"
"What do you think?"
"I don't know, that's why I'm asking."
"I'm going to take her with me of course."
"You've lost you're marbles. If you have her with you when the boss finds you, he'll kill her. And then he'll kill you after you watched him murder her."
"I doubt that."
"Oh really? Why? You don't think he would?"
"No, it's not that. It's just, he wouldn't find her."
"What do you mean?"
"What I mean is, what if I had her on her own or with someone else?"
"Are you crazy? On her own? She'd be so easy to find! She'd probably break the rules too! Then she'd definitly be killed."
"But what if I find someone to take her with them?"
"Yea, and who do you think would do that?"
"I don't know. I guess I'll have to find someone, wouldn't I?"
"Whatever. I just better not be brought into this."
"You won't."
Then I was completely enveloped in darkness and empty sound.
I woke up sometime in a day without any pain. Looking around me I saw that I was close to the center of the camp. Tents around everywhere. A camp fire not too far away. Everything in arms reach. I noticed that it was night time and there wasn't anybody around the camp fire. As if it had been built especially to bring some warmth to her. Not that she felt it very well.
I waited patiently while the warriors started to come back from what i assumed to have been a battle run. But they weren't carrying any weapons. Instead they had wide grins with shiny bright teeth. I shivered lightly at the thought of them being their weapons. Then I closed my mouth and felt some of my own. I shivered more deeply. Surely I wasn't meant to kill with teeth. Or kill at all.
"I see you've finally woken up." the one that had Robert's voice said as he walked up to her.
"Yes," I said and looked around for the woman who matched the voice. I found no one.
Jon laughed. "She doesn't know that her voice is different now. How cute!" he said sarcastically. She wasn't going to get along with him very well, she knew.
"Why don't you go shove it," I muttered under my breath.
"Oh, she's feisty! Go Robert, you got your dream girl," Jon responded.
"That's enough, Jon."
"But why do we have to stop? We're having so much fun!" Again, with the sarcasm.
"Aren't you ever pleasant?" I asked rudely.
"Well, yes, actually. When we're actually doing what we're supposed to be doing. Not saving some poor girl who should die a normal death."
"Well, maybe we should cool it for a little while." Robert tried to stop the argument.
"Oh no, I'm enjoying this too much," Jon said.
"You know what? I don't need to take this from you guys. I'm leaving." I got up and started to walk to an unknown destination.
"Wait! Don't leave!" Robert yelled to me.
"Why?"
"Because you have no idea what you are, or what you need to watch out for, or what you should do."
"Okay, go over them short and sweet for me so that I can leave and get out of your hair."
"You're not bothering me."
"But I'm bothering your buddies here. I wouldn't want to be any problem for you."
"Oh please. The only thing you want to be is a problem!" Jon yelled.
"Excuse me?"
"It's obvious! You wanted attention from someone, that's why you jumped off the cliff. You didn't have any reason to do it. You wanted someone to stop you, that's why you did it!"
"Jon, you are so wrong," I said in a low voice.
"Oh am I? Tell me how, then."
"You know what? I don't need to tell you about my life or about what I've been going through. You travel with your buddies and you don't have to worry about anything. Just whether you're going to win a battle against some country or fort over some meaningless reason. You have no idea what normal people have to suffer with! You just accuse people of being a certain way because you can't think of any other reason for it. Because you've never known anything else. Have you? You've been very sheltered, haven't you? Aren't you lucky?" I screamed at him.
He just looked at me like he didn't know what to say. I turned around and walked away.