ESCAPE 42
"Now you need to listen to me," the man said. He leaned over Cal again. "I can heal him. Your mother out there; she's not in her right mind."
"She's a monster!" I glared. How could he say such a thing?
He sighed. "Yes, well. I just hope that this doesn't happen again. Just trust me ok?" He put his hands on my shoulders. "That's not your mother back there. It's….she's not herself." He nodded his head, trying to persuade me of it. I still wasn't so sure.
"She's my mother….why wouldn't I trust her?"
He looked at me. "You don't trust your father and you haven't even met him."
I glared at him, but didn't say anything. He had a point. I didn't trust him. Not my real father anyway.
He knelt down by Cal and placed two hands on his forehead. "Now I'm going to help your brother." He said.
"Wait! No!"
He looked up. "Do you have any other choice? He's dying anyway. There's nothing you can do about it."
I looked down at Cal with uncertainty. Is he really dying? "I…"
"Well he's not really dying. But when your brother's through with this transformation, you'll wish he was…"
"What will he turn into?"
Cal started moaning in pain again. The man looked at him, and then up at me. "You want to wait and find out?"
I could feel Cal's pain practically suffocating me as much as it was him. I sucked in a breath. "No." I admitted.
"All right then. Patience," he turned to Cal, in complete focus. I just stayed there, watching Cal. Cal looked up at me in confusion. I couldn't hear his thoughts anymore. He was too weak to send them and I was too weak to receive them myself.
They all became silent and I stiffened as I watched Cal. Why was I able to kneel? Why was I suddenly able to talk?
"I've broken a barrier," the man said, as if in answer to my question. "Now shush. It will all be explained in a moment."
I looked at him, awed. Can everyone read minds now? A barrier, broken? Why wasn't I able to break it?
Cal moaned and put all of my focus on him. 'It's going to be ok Cal. You've got this.' ESCAPE