Ch. 15: Ryan
I wake up with Mary cuddling with me. I try to gently shove her off but my arms and my arms feel like lead. Then I remember Money, Raynor's special sword which he stabbed me with, has a poisonous tip which causes great pain but not death. I try to wake up Mary but then I remember that with me like this and Mary asleep Raynor could easily kill us. I try to wake Mary up again but she is deep in sleep and that's when the thought hits me. What if Raynor already killed her? I force myself to move my head down and I give her a long kiss. She wakes up smiles at me and kisses me back. I tell her that we can have time for this later, we need to move Raynor could come back and kill us. This comment jars her and she gets up and starts wiping out traces of the camp when I hear a cough. Raynor is standing there with money drawn. I force myself up and Mary draws her mace. Raynor is standing there then he does something I would have never thought him to do. He shoved his sword in the ground getting it dirty. When he did this Mary tackles him and pins him down and is about to cream him in the face with her mace. "Wait!" he screams "please I didn't come here to kill you if I had I would have done it." "Mary if he moves kill him, but until then he does have a good point." Mary turns over at me and gives me a look which I take as are you stupid? Then Raynor knocks Mary off him in her moment of distraction. He grabs Mary's mace and throws it away near the ashes of the fire. Mary begins to run towards it but he trips her, and says "guys come on, I came to talk and if I wasn't here to talk you would be dead! Now listen to me for a little bit." "Why?" I ask, "Yesterday you attacked us and almost killed me." "Look Ryan I'm not here to fight, I was only mad at you because Audrie died and it gave me purpose but she is back and I don't know how." Great Raynor has completely lost it. "I brought you my sword as a sign of truce and Audrie made me realize Nick is the only real enemy and he always has been." "So are you proposing we join the rebels?" I ask. "If it means I can protect Audrie and get back at the one who hurt her than yes." I look at Raynor, then at Mary. She looks at me in a weird way like we should give him a chance. "Alright Raynor but until I trust you fully I'm keeping your sword." I look at Raynor who looks like he is about to object but instead he just nods. Raynor comes towards me, I brace myself but he hands me a vial. It will get rid of the poison in your body. I drink it and I feel better immediately. Raynor tells us to go back with him to the cabin that we just came from. We follow him back the way we came and I do hope Audrie is alive she was always the nicer one, and she was always able to calm Raynor down enough that he was actually fun to be around.