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Rachel
I walked, in silence, out of the makeshift hall we had made towards the edge of the clearing where Ax was collecting water, I spotted him on the other side of the river that ran around the outside of the camp and went to go round to him, but as I rounded the bend I heard a whisper "Hey, Rachel over here, I need to talk to you." I looked over toward the sound, as spotted Marco sitting in the shadow of one of the huts, he motioned for me to follow, and, more intrigued than I should have been, I complied. Together, we left the clearing and entered the forest at the edge of the encampment. We walked for around 10 minutes when Marco suddenly spun round on the spot to face me.
"Well, here we are." He said, and looked at me expectantly "Well? What do you think?"
"Think of what?" I said, breaking my 3 day silence, "This part of the forest looks the same as the part we passed 5 minutes ago. Just lots of wood and plants and insects biting my legs. So why don't you dispense with all the dramatics and get to the point." I said, "You told me you had something to talk with me about, you got my attention, now what is it?"
Marco actually looked like he was lost for words, which was definitely a first that I could remember, but it didn't last long till he found his voice again,
"Yes, your right" He said, and I raised an eyebrow, something was up, Marco never agreed with me on this sort of thing without SOME kind of smart assed remark, "Rachel, you've been acting weird, everyone's noticed, we know that losing Tobias was a significant blow, but it isn't like you at all to close up like you have the passed few days, the others just think that you've never had to deal with anything like this before and that this is how you react, but I think that something else is bothering you, so I brought you out here so that we can talk about it without the others listening in through paper-thin leaves we have to call home." He finished, and gave me another expectant look, like I was just going to suddenly pour out all my feelings and problems to him of all people. Truth be told, there WAS something else bothering me, and it was bothering me alot, see, in the final moments before we all abandoned ship and Tobias, Marco had shown a part of himself and I only saw it at the last second, and I didn't like it, not at all. Marco had acted like he WANTED us to leave Tobias, like he had HOPED that Tobias would die, and I wanted to know why, and I wanted to know what had happened to Tobias after we had that argument, Ax had noticed too, but he never told us what happened. And now he never would, and there was nothing we could do about it. I felt so...helpless. I hadn't felt this way often, and I hated it, but it was there, and all of a sudden I was sobbing, I was horrified but I couldn't stop. I was sobbing into MARCO'S shoulder! Of all people I had to do it in front on him. But he didn't back away or anything, he just put his arms round me and held me. It was the sort of thing I thought Tobias would do, in fact, it was exactly what Tobias would have done.
After a few minutes my sobbing subsided and I looked up from Marco's shoulder, his face was inches away from mine, I could feel his heart racing and mine accelerated to match it, he bent down slightly, and before I really knew what was happening he was kissing me. I was shocked, my mind racing, I was now kissing the guy who I thought had wanted the love of my life dead, the guy who had convinced me to leave Tobias to die. What was I doing?! But I didn't stop, I couldn't, it was wrong, it was horribly wrong; I should be mourning Tobias, not kissing Marco! Eventually we both broke for air,
"Woah," he said "That was unexpected."
"No kidding" I agreed, an awkward silence descended between us which stretched for several minutes, eventually I decided to break it, "Ummmm, maybe we ought to get back, the others will be wondering where we are."
"yeah, yeah we should" Marco agreed looking annoying proud of himself, like I was some kind of conquest, but I didn't have the energy to react, my mind was racing, What had I just done? Why didn't I stop? I had no answers for even myself, I just hoped that wherever Tobias was, that he would forgive me.
Drode
I stood at the edge of the impact crater, I saw the fires still burning hot and fast, all these days after the crash of the Ellimist's ship. Something felt...odd. I couldn't put my finger on it, something was not right down there, something had happened that neither myself, the Visser, or Crayak had planned, it unnerved me, I was the most powerful being in this plain of existence! My power was rivalled by only Crayak and the Ellimist themselves! So what could possibly be going on to give me this feeling? I was about to go down to have a look for myself, when I heard the overbearing tones of The One reach me,
"Drode! Get here NOW! I need you to move this crap out of my way! Do you expect me to WALK THORUGH IT?!"
I shuddered, this creature was unbearable! The sooner we destroyed these human fools once and for all the better then I could finish this annoying snob and be done with it. I shot once last look into the smouldering crater and spun round to the Yeerk.