Rodwood Academy

Chapter 36: The Promised Lie

"Rosy?" Kaila guessed as she sat up on the hard bed rubbing her fuzzy eyes.

Clearing her throat the woman made it clear to the young girl that her guess was indeed horribly wrong.

Between the fact that she was stuck in a room all alone with this woman and her headache that had a mind of its own, Kaila didn't know which she preferred.

What she did know was that the blob that was slowly coming into focus was getting ever so slightly closer to her by the minute. "Get away!" She screamed as she stumbled off of the woman's bed just barely escaping a terrible fall off as she caught herself on the floor. "Where am I?! Why am I here?! I wasn't here when I fell asleep!"

"I am aware of that. But I didn't want you left outside all night long. Now while it's this cold." Nina calmly said.

"I don't care if it's cold! Anything is better than staying here with you...you...you-" Kaila's voice got weaker as her vision cleared completely.

It was almost as if seeing the woman's face was enough to trigger a flashback to the pit where the girl witnessed the woman standing before her in this very moment, kill a man who was bothering her. "What are you?" Kaila stumbled away until she hit her back against the corner of the room.

Sliding down the smooth stone, she curled her knees to her chest as she grabbed the closest thing in arms reach to act as her weapon of defense.

But unfortunately for her, that "weapon" that was suppose to be able to protect her from the creature walking closer was no more than a handful of the tiniest pebbles she had ever known.

But that didn't stop her from using them to her advantage.

As Nina started getting down to the girls level on the floor, Kaila tossed her handful of pebbles at the woman forcing a large cloud of dirt and dust to cover the woman's field of view.

"Hey!" Nina shouted as she was showered by a rainfall of solid rock forcing her to back up as she swiped her hand in front of her face to discard the dust cloud that the girl had created.

"Stay away! Don't come any closer!" The small girl, despite being sat on the floor curled into herself, Kaila felt powerful as she held another handful of pebbles and dust.

"Kaila I need you to listen to me..." Nina tried to reason with the girl, but as expected, Kaila was only focused on one thing.

The missing presence of her closest friends.

"Wait. We're are my friends? What've you done with them? Why weren't they outside with me?!" She asked while chucking a single pebble at the woman's lean arm with extreme accuracy. "Tell me what happened while I was out before that one becomes a hundred." She said giving Nina only a preview to what was to come if she refused to answer her questions.

"I told you where they were before Kaila. You just didn't listen." Nina said making Kaila even more furious.

"Liar!" She shouted throwing another handful at the woman forcing her even further away for own health.

"I'm not lying. I told you last night, while you were outside, that you could've either stayed out in the pits or came inside and followed me to where you're friends were staying."

Despite all that Nina said, Kaila's brain was caught up on one more minor detail.

"Did you just say last night?" The instant the words slipped past her lips, Kaila looked down at her hands as tears surfaced. "Exactly how long was I out for?"

After clearing her face from any left over stone and dirt, Nina answered. "Around a day."

"A day! What's been happening?! What have I missed?! Are my friend here still?!"