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Chapter Five
The Wanderer
I haven't been kissed since all of this began. I kissed back for moment and then pulled away. "You don't really love me," I said, "You're just lonely. We all are."
"No," he said, "I love you. I love how kind you are, how compassionate, how brave. I love how beautiful you are and how strong you are. You are really special Anya."
This time it was me who leaned in and kissed him. Being there with him made everything that has happened to me my whole life disappear. All that matter was that moment.
"Whoa," a voice said from the entrance to the cave, "Get a room."
We pulled apart and turned around, startled, and saw Kyle behind us.
"We had one until you burst in here," I told him, "What do you want anyway?"
"I was just looking for Ian," he said, "We're going to go kill it."
"Did Jeb say to?" Ian asked looking at me to see my response to the conversation.
"No," Kyle admitted, "But who cares what the crazy old man says? It's got to die. Who cares if it's his niece?"
I grabbed Ian's arm "Don't hurt her too bad," I said "Make it quick."
"Do you want to come?" he asked me. I took my gun back from his pocket and nodded.
We walked through the caves to a room I had never been in before. The girl was sitting on a bench in the back looking upset. Outside of the room Jared was standing guard.
"It's got to die," Kyle told him, "You know that."
I didn't see which man throw the first punch but they quickly began to fight. "No!" the girl screamed, "No! It's me you want! Take me!"
"Finish it Ian!" Kyle screamed.
Ian started to go towards the girl. I grabbed his arm, "Don't," I said.
One of the other guys in the hall with us said, "It could be a seeker! Let Ian kill it."
"That's no seeker," I said, "They don't jump between fights like that."
"She's right," Ian said.
"The parasite's trying to stay alive," said Kyle.
"By giving you permission to kill her?" I asked him, "Jared, Kyle quit it with the fight. You," I said to the girl, "What's your name?" She looked upset and scared. "Honey," I said, "I'm not going to hurt you."
She glanced at my gun. I put it on the ground.
"They call me Wanderer," she told me.
"Okay Wanderer," I said, "Can I come into the room?"
She nodded we both went into the room. She sat back down on the bench. "Can I sit down?" I asked.
"Yes," she said, "Just please, please don't kill me."
"I promise you I won't kill you," I told her, "Ian," I called to him, "Would you get Kyle and the boys out of here. They're scaring her."
"Okay," he said.
"My name is Anya," I told Wanderer.
"Hi," she said, "Thank you."
"No problem," I said, "Are you hungry?"
"Yes," she said, pushing her brown hair behind her ears, "And thirsty."
I told Ian to get her some food and water, "So," I said to her and she took a sip of the water, "Are there other souls out there looking for us?"
"There might be some looking for me," she said, "I don't know. But nobody knows where I went."
"Why did you come here?" I asked her.
She stared straight ahead and whispered something I couldn't hear. "If I tell you," she said, "You'll think I'm lying and you'll kill me."
"I won't kill you," I told her, "I'm not a killer. Anything you tell me is between you and me unless you say otherwise. I'll listen to whatever you want to say."
"Melanie wanted to come here," she said.
"Melanie is your host," I said, "Jeb's niece?"
She nodded, "She made a promise to her brother," she said, "That she would come back. So she had to."
"So," I said, "She's in there with you, in your head?"
"Yeah," Wanderer said, "Yeah she is."
"I believe you," I told her, "I mean if it was me I wouldn't just hand over control to someone else. I'd stick around. From what I've heard about Melanie she would do the same."
