Morning came all too soon as far as Amelia was concerned, and already she was weary of the day. She poked a stick at her small fire, hoping to gain some warmth from her ordeal. She stole a glance over to her silent companion, water still dripping from the tips of his hair.
Amelia let out another sigh.
She had thought the night before to be bad enough, after learning that Zelgadis the man was no more..at least for the moment. She had to keep reminding herself that it wasn't - couldn't be a permanent thing! Amelia shook the thought from her head. In any case, after their escape the night before, Amelia had wanted for nothing more than to get some rest before deciding her next course of action.
The only problem was, Zelgadis didn't seem to understand the concept.
"Sleep," "Rest," "Be still," she had tried to think of anything to get him to get rest as well, but Zelgadis just silently stared back at her, still no indication of the man to be seen. At her wit's end, Amelia had finally resorted to casting a Sleep spell on him - only then realizing that she should have commanded him to lie down on the ground first, as his dead weight fell right on top of her!
Amelia rubbed her arm unconsciously, still feeling a bit sore from that oversight. As if that hadn't been enough, her solution only opened up the possiblity for more problems. When she'd woken up just an hour ago, she'd turned to notice that Zelgadis had...gained relief in his sleep. Amelia couldn't help but blush and curse at her stupidity. A man would care enough to keep control of his...faculties, but a golem...a golem would have no concept of such things.
Having cast Dicleary to dispell the Sleep spell, Amelia's next plan of action had been to clean Zelgadis' clothing, but again she hadn't counted on just how literally he would take her commands! Before she knew it, he had plunged right into a river. Amelia had chased after to drag him out, thus leading to their new predicament.
Amelia shook her head as she recalled the morning's events, again poking at the small fire in hope that her clothes would be dry some time before...nightfall, the way things were going. She sighed again, looking up at Zelgadis. He didn't quite understand the 'sit' command, so more often than not she let him remain standing. He stood just where she'd last commanded him, but something was different...
His eyes.
Amelia gasped, seeing that red glow from last night returning. She glanced behind herself to the direction Zelgadis was staring, but didn't see anything. She squinted in the early daylight, but still couldn't make out anything that would be setting Zelgadis off.
"...smoke...thi..way."
Amelia bolted up from her seat on the ground, having heard the faint snatch of dialogue on the wind. She glanced over to Zelgadis, who was still impassively staring in the direction of the voice, his eyes glowing a deeper red. It creeped Amelia out.
Without another thought she kicked dirt onto her small fire, all thoughts of getting dry gone from her mind. She had to put the fire out! So caught up in her task was she, Amelia was taken by surprise when she suddenly found herself lifted off the ground as her captor moved off at great speed. She didn't have to look up to realize that Zelgadis had been the one to do it, but it still caused her mind to reel.
"I never commanded him to retreat, so why.." Amelia held on as best she could, allowing Zelgadis to create more distance between them and the cultists from the night before.
To Be Continued…
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Author's Notes: Yes, it's a really short chapter, but not my shortest I've ever written at least. (But, still shorter than I was wanting…) I was originally going to write out all of Amelia's mishaps in dealing with Zelgadis, but it just didn't sound as fun to me, so we get to hear of it after the fact instead. Hopefully people can forgive me on cheating like that.
I was wanting to add more to this chapter, but where I want it to be and where it is currently don't want to connect up nicely. In other words, I'm still hammering out that which goes between. Hopefully I'll have it sorted out soon.
Apologies on being so late with this, but that's also why I posted up a shorter chapter now instead of there possibly being weeks yet to conquer before I have new material. Heck, what with Revolution on pause for now, it ought to help me focus more on my writings since I have to wait to see how the new anime season is going to end…
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