Chapter 6- A Different Perspective
Mr. Crepsley's .View (otherwise known as POV)
When I woke up, I was aching all over. KayLi was still sleeping, her head resting on my chest. She had been too tired last night, and I did not have the heart to wake her up by moving. As I scratched my scar, KayLi began to wake up. "Morning," I greeted her as I stood up to stretch my legs. It was still pretty early, and not many of our competitors were up yet. As I made my third round around the room, KayLi walked next to me. I slowed down my pace for her to catch up.
KayLi was nervous, you could not see it unless you knew what to look for but she was. I was never good at comforting people, but I was all KayLi had in this competition. "You know, we will get through this." Was all I said to her, indirectly. As she stared at me, surprised at my warmth, I blushed (so slightly you would never have known I was doing so!) and continued walking as though I never said anything at all.
Later in the day, Mr. Tiny appeared again. "Ready to go? Here are your maps" he said as Little People gave out maps to everyone. "Well, 3, 2, 1…" next thing we knew, the floor below us catapulted us into the air through the room ( it was hollow) and we ended up outside the stadium.
As everyone else was still dazed and confused, I picked KayLi up and flitted. Best to get a start. I flitted us as far as we could. When I saw a spot to my liking, I made sure there was nothing dangerous. Just to be safe, I told KayLi to get up in a tree. When she was safely up, I jumped up next to her and opened the map Mr. Tiny handed out. It was in four colours, red, blue, brown and white. As we pondered over the map, KayLi jumped up another branch to look over the horizon. What she saw must have been serious, because not a minute later, she called to me. "Hey, Mr. Crepsley…..i think you should take a look at this."
Curious, I leapt on a higher branch, as I was worried the branch KayLi was standing on might not take my weight. What I saw, was east from where I was standing, was a land seemingly filled with fire. A wall of fire was surrounding it, making it impossible to see through. To the west, was a huge ocean. To the north, I could only make out clouds. As to where we were, the south…it hit me. The map had four colours, red, blue, white and brown. Red was the fire zone, blue was the water zone, white was the clouds, and brown was where we were, earth.
Suddenly, the earth beneath us began to shake, like an earthquake, KayLi almost lost her balance. I leapt down and steadied her. Good thing I did too, as when the earthquake stopped, the ground below us had split apart, leaving a huge crack. As we stared into the crack, monsters began to crawl out. They looked like they were made out of mud, and had uncountable amount of arms. I cracked a branch, used my knife to cut it into a sharp stake, and aimed it at one of the…mud monsters. When the stake cut clean through the mud monster and it regenerated, I knew this battle would have to be postponed.
I grabbed KayLi and flitted once again, this time to the north, where the clouds were. It seemed the safest place right now.
This time, I tried it in Mr. Crepsley's perspective. As you can see, Mr. Crepsley doesn't bother with exact conversations.