Chapter 10
In the dead of night something is draped over Misty and the red-head looks up, still drunk with sleep. She meets brown eyes, they look intently at her as if they are trying to say something…
But before Misty can voice anything, the eyes leave her, and she traces them to a young man with raven hair. His build is rather scrawny only with slight muscle, but not close to anything that would be of help to survive… he looks like a person who has been cooked up inside for years.
The black-haired man looks over at what Misty can only assume is his friends and they speak in some sort of broken language she does not understand. He eye her now and then as if to see if she is still there, and Misty cannot do much more than just stay, being tied up and all…
After a while, and some more glares she just sighs "Listen, Im pretty sure you understand me… so let me reiterate, I am NOT here to hurt you… I'm just trying to find some food for the Cerulean kids… with how Team Rocket runs the economy we don't get any money and even less food" … she shifts a little and sees how a blonde approaches…
"How can we trust you?" the voice is calm and even and blue eyes meet blue, the grey-scale stare into her ocean blue ones and it's somehow intimidating… yet Misty stands her ground and darts her eye over to the other two…
"Because you don't have a choice" she let out a feign snicker "soon my sisters are going to look for me, and if they see me like this you are going to have the whole city to deal with… so why don't we make a deal… you let me go, and I help you out in any way I can?"
The blonde looks for a moment but follows Mistys eyes towards their friends "should we?", they switch to their made-up language effortlessly.
A black-haired girl sigs "she's right, we need to find someplace to hide, and If she can provide us with that I think it would be smartest to give in to her demands"
"I still don't trust her", the boy with the black hair answers his friend and produces the same knife Misty was threatened with "we should just kill her and leave!"
"Ash, that is ridiculous" the black haired yells and takes the knife "she is more useful to us alive"
Misty looks up by the one word she does recognize… "Ash.. wait… so you are Delias kid, the one who went missing so many years ago? let me take you to her, I bet she misses you so much"
Ash just looks at Misty, his face hard to read as the horrors of what he did wash over him once again… and Misty somehow knows, by the way his black-haired friend places an arm around his shoulder… that something really bad, must have happened to Delia Ketchum.