Recap- "Why is" I begin but before I can even finish my sentence I feel a familiar stinging in my eyes and ache in my neck, everything goes black and I feel my eyes go wide.
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"Do not be fooled," He states, not turning to me. "He is not as weak as he may seem." I ponder the meaning of this, is the man we are about to see dangerous? Surely if he is a rival of Mihawk he must be strong and if he's still alive well…
I feel myself coming back to reality, my hair tangling itself around my neck pulling at the unbrushed locks. My eyes close for a second processing the vision, filing it away for future references, usually my visions aren't that long, I'm not sure how much time has passed. I try to remember what was happening before I had my vision. Mihawk looks at me a strange look of admiration in his eyes, he turns back to the sea and says
"What a surprisingly useful gift you have." I turn my head so quickly I swear I could hear the wind whip past me.
"W-w-what?" I ask stupidly then I quickly regain coherent thought and state protectively "What gift? I'm just tired!" My usual lie, before this hawkeyed man it does not sound so convincing but still I try backing my statement up with a yawn.
"You have been asleep for three days, you cannot possibly be tired." He replies. Three days. I have been unconscious for three days. I look at him, narrowing my eyes slightly in order to tell whether he is telling the truth. He appears unfazed.
"So," He carries on. "What did you see?" This angers me, how can he talk about this as though it is nothing. He probably just heard it from those crazy men. Yes. He was talking to that man, he has no proof that I'm psychic.
"I don't know what you're talking about." I reply to him. He lets out an amused sigh and looks down at the thing on his wrist. It looks like a compass though it has no north. My eyes fix themselves upon it, I watch it but it does not move, how strange, perhaps we are moving north.
"Are you going to play dumb or are you going to answer me?" He asks looking at me again. "I know what you are." At these words I hear Lola's voice saying 'freak' to me again and again. Then I see dad walking away from me with that woman, he left because he couldn't handle what I had told him, his daughter was a freak. "I know that you can see the future." He stated matter of factly, as though he was telling me that he knew that I had gotten my newspaper or that he had seen that I had a new car. I merely stared at him unable to answer. Finally I looked down at my bare feet unable to face him. He knew what I was. I felt ashamed. I had felt great pride when I had told Lola, after she had told me what an amazing gift it was, she had lied, her young self wanted adventure, I just wanted to be normal. Mihawk seemed to sense my anxiety and did not press the matter any further. I pulled my knees up to my chest and hugged them, watching the sunset before me, sinking into the icy depth of the sea. My first conscious night at sea. I let myself drift away again still feeling extremely tired.
The little girl watched the man ironing his trousers that he would wear to work the next day. She was desperate for her daddy to play trains with her, he had promised that once he was finished ironing his clothes for work this week he would play with her. She sat on the floor before him waiting patiently, inside she was extremely excited. Her mommy and daddy had promised that for her birthday, which was in a month and half's time she would be allowed the new lego pirate set. Her daddy and her loved playing with lego, her daddy always made the best things like houses and boats with flags, aeroplanes and cars but she wasn't good at any of that stuff. Suddenly she felt a heat in her eyes and a pain her neck. The world went dark, it always frightened her when this happened, she was frightened of the dark.
-In her mind she saw something above her daddy fall and hit him on the back of the head, at first she wanted to laugh, her daddy could be so clumsy sometimes, when his body collapsed to the floor to breathing coming out in gasps she realised this was serious, her daddy was in pain.-
She watched again as the thing began to fall. She screamed for her daddy to move. He looked shocked and after a moment, which to her felt like a life time, he moved, The heavy file hit the floor with an earth shaking bang causing the girl to cry out in fear. Her daddy asked her how she knew and so she told him. He was the first person she ever told, the first person she truly relied on. Her secret had blossomed into the world and now rested in her daddy's hands.
I open my eyes slowly, lifting my hands up to rub the sleep from the corners of my droopy eyes. Something falls off my shoulders onto the floor making a soft thug sound as it hits the deck. I pull one hand away from my eye and reach behind me, clutching the soft material in my cold hands. It's a blanket, but I don't remember putting this on I think. My eyes turn to the only other passenger on this small raft, looking determinedly out towards the misty horizon. I wrap myself up again standing up slowly and walking the two strides to the man in the seat.
"I could watch if you want." I say in an attempt to be nice. He shakes his head, keeping his eyes on the horizon, waiting for something.
"We're almost there." He says more to himself than me. I want to believe that it is somewhere other than the fight he is going to have soon. I wait for him to elaborate but he doesn't, Mihawk is a strange man like that, he leaves it to the imagination. After a few minutes in silence he turns to me and says
"So would you care to tell me what you saw?" This again I think slightly annoyed and yet also relieved. This man has after all saved me and he is much older than I.
"You believe that I am psychic beyond any doubt?" I ask thoughtfully. He nods in a thoughtfully. "Then I will tell you that I merely know our destination." He laughs in spite of himself.
"I see." He replies "And did you see him?" He asks.