"So what is that you're wearing again?" Atom asked T sceptically as he flanked one side of the group, on the lookout for enemies coming at them from the rear.
"It's the parachute we landed with, I made it into a cloak. You like it?" T asked, shooting a weak smile over her shoulder as she was really beginning to feel the pressure from being out so long.
Her hands were trembling, her head felt like it was being drilled into from three different locations and the whole left side of her body felt numb and weak.
I was just supposed to get the Gamba root and go…now I'm stuck out here…well…at least I've got six months worth of the stuff – that saves me from making any more death-dyfing trips out here!
Huff…Huff…Huff…
But I've already slowed them down enough. I got to keep putting one foot in front of the other. I wouldn't want anything to happen to them because of me.
Bellamy glanced back over his shoulder, pretending to be checking out their surroundings but really wanting to catch a glimpse of T. She had gradually been growing more and more silent the more they trekked.
He could tell she was getting tired.
It frustrated him.
The whole situation, he found it infuriating.
She was slow.
She was clumsy.
…and he was worried about how much longer she could last.
The energy she was overflowing with that morning was being drained from her like a tap on a well. She obviously couldn't handle being out here…
Bellamy in a seconds rage threw his hunting knife at a tree in the distance.
Goddam! She knew she couldn't handle being out here! So why the hell did she come!
"You" Bellamy growled, turning around suddenly and blocking T's path. "Are never coming out here again! We haven't caught anything all day because of your interference in our plans!"
T looked startled, her eyes widened fractionally before her head dropped in shame.
"I'm sorry" she whispered, too tired to fight or argue – not that she would have anyway – she wasn't like that. She just wanted to make everyone happy, but all she did it seemed was piss everyone off.
"Sometimes sorry isn't good enough" Bellamy snapped back, looking around for his knife which he was sure hit the tree in front of him. He was further aggravated when he found in lying on the floor, the tree without a scratch.
What the hell! I never miss.
T, through droopy eyes, watched Bellamy's forehead wrinkle in a mix of confusion and frustration, his cheeks even glowing in slight embarrassment as he bent to pick up his knife.
Even T knew that Bellamy didn't miss.
Just with that information alone she felt the strength to surge forward, pushing past Bellamy to closer inspect the tree. She looked it up and down, searching for something, anything that might give her answers.
No moss...
Tall tree…old tree…no moss…
T looked around her, at all the other trees. Each one looked the same.
Tall trees…old trees…still no moss….
"T," Bellamy started "what do you think yo-"
"Hush. Shh. Please. Sorry. Thinking. Just wait. Please. Sorry" T rambled, her eyes not moving off the collection of trees in front of her.
These trees are old. Yet at the bottom they shimmer. Why do they shimmer? Why no moss?
Something isn't right.
Bellamy watched as the gears turned in T's head. If anyone else had told him too basically, shut up, he would have had them shoved up against a tree and a knife at their throat. Those people needed to learn who was in charge, it was what was good for them and for the successful running of society. They needed a fearsome leader and strict guidance. That was his role.
T on the other hand, was extremely eccentric and a free spirit. Bellamy believed that chaining her down with threats and violence would make her natural intelligence recoil into nothingness. That was not something he could afford to do. Just from one look in those bright golden orbs as they scanned the tree in front of them, there was no doubt to the hidden intelligence within them.
T reached her hand out to the tree, running a finger down the lower trunk.
Hmm….smooth…not a bump or indent on the whole thing…why?
The whole group watched in silence as she bawled her hand into a fist and gave the trunk a tentative knock.
She saw no difference, she knocked a little harder. This time wincing as her knuckles collided with the shimmering tree bark.
Oh my gosh! Ow. Ow. Ow. Ow. OW! Ooooooo okay keep calm! I mean sh- that stuff is harder than the steel used on the Ark!
T took a deep breath trying to make sense of the hundred and one thoughts flying threw her open mind.
No moss…slick, hard surface…why wou- what is this!
T watched with glazed eyes as the shimmering coat of mucus coloured steel rise several inches above the tree. She didn't know what it was yet but she saw that as a sign she needed to think faster.
No moss…slick, hard surface…evolution….protection….radiation….toxins….why would it rise?! Unless…
"Oh my gosh! Oh gosh gosh!" T screeched stumbling back from the tree, as the shimmering steel rose another couple inches on the tree. Her back met Bellamy's chest as he moved forward to meet her.
"What? What is it?"
She spun around to look at him.
They're going to think I'm crazy!
What if I'm not right and Bellamy just gets angry with me again?
Oh shush!
It's better to get yelled for being wrong than do nothing and have no one to yell at you if you were right…cause they'd all be DEAD!
"Everyone needs to climb the trees now!" she proclaimed as she widely pointed to all the trees around them.
"But why?" Atom asked, not even flinching as T ran over to one with the lowest branch that she could grasp on to.
"No time!" She cried looking over her shoulder, glad to see that while Atom was standing there, the urgency in her voice had prompted the others to follow her. Some already swinging from branch to branch to get higher. "Just don't stop until you're above the moss!"
T jumped and reached for a branch above her head and although the adrenaline was pumping she had pretty much reached her limit. She had been out in the sun much too long. The world spun as she looked up in search for climbable branches.
She wouldn't make it. She knew that. She couldn't even see properly.
"What do you think you're doing?!" Bellamy growled appearing right behind her.
"Me! What abou- no! Bellamy you need to get in the tree! It's not safe down here!"
"Then why are you still standing here?" he argued, his voice gruff and accusing.
"Because…Because I ah-" her head drooped in shame for the second time in ten minutes. "I'm too weak. I can't make it. You were right…I never should have come out here. I'm sorry for ruining your trip." She bent her neck to meet his eye, her expression bright in an attempt to alleviate the seriousness of what was about to happen to her "But you can! Please go! Oh and take the gamba root! Jasper needs it to- ahh!"
"Stop talking. I need to concentrate" Bellamy snapped as he grabbed T around the waist and tossed her over his shoulder. Grabbing her arms and wrapping them around his neck and silently prompting her to do the same with her legs – around his middle.
Bellamy was a lot stronger, not to mention taller than T and was able to use momentum to swing them both up onto the branch she was trying to climb earlier. He then searched out the next branch and move them up in a similar fashion. When they were two stories off the ground the earth began to bubble. The dirt turned mushy as if it had just rained, and before anyone knew it this bubbling yellow liquid was rising above the earth. Slight gas was rising above it – it smelled putrid and was definitely toxic.
Its rise was by no means slow. The liquid bubbled and gurgled threateningly, ready to absorb anyone who dares to fall in it into nothingness.
Looking at this made T tighten her legs around Bellamy's waist, her body trembling against his. She buried her face into his shoulder not wanting to look down at what could be her end.
"Bellamy you should get up higher. Seriously if you just leave me here I'll be fiiiinnnnneee! I mean, it doesn't even look that bad."
"I thought I told you to shut up" Bellamy growled, his heart beating a mile a minute as he searched for the best way to get them up higher.
The yellow river was only a metre beneath them now. It was hungry and they had been chosen to be satayed and fried.
Bellamy was frantically looking around and so was T, even with her hazy vision.
"Bellamy there!" he snapped his head to wear she was pointing and let out a roar of frustration. The branch was too high up, he'd never be able to reach!
"We'd never make that!"
He felt T adjust himself on his back until her mouth was centred right next to his ear.
"Trust me" she whispered.
Bellamy didn't know if it's because they were running out of options, time, or maybe he really did trust her.
But before anyone really could comprehend what he was doing,
He jumped.
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