[Off Path] | Oath of Lies ~ Newt²

[0.7] Let's Move

Isa wakes up to Thomas shooing away a bird. He stood to look around.

"They gone?" Newt asked Thomas.

"Yeah, I think we're safe for now. We should get moving, let's pack it up, Aris come on, Fry, Winston, let's go." Winston groans in pain.

"Where are you planning on going?" Isa questions the group before they start to leave.

"How are you alive?" Minho ignored her previous question, asking his own.

"Seriously, are you just gonna wander around until you find other people? You won't find anyone still alive out here."

"The right arm. Do you know where they are?" Thomas got closer to the girl, it was clear he found her familiar by the way he acted. Casey and Isa shared a look.

"No, we don't know where they are but we know someone who may be able to find them."

"Let's go then." Thomas turned on his heel, leading the group away. Isa shakes her head but follows anyway. They start their walk through the destroyed city.

"What the hell happened to this place?"

"I don't know, but it doesn't look like anyones been here in a long time."

"I hope the whole worlds not like this."

"Hang on, stop." Isa closed her eyes to focus on what she thought she was hearing. "You hear that?" Casey was the first to catch on, seeing the berg in the distance.

"Get down, everybody hide!" They all ran to hide under some pieces of the broken building.

"They're never gonna stop looking for us, are they?" No one answered his question as they all already knew the answer.

They walk, they walk in silence and in pain. Isa was surrounded by her friends but just couldn't talk to them. They walked up a hill of sand looking off into the distance at the mountains.

"There's mountains, that's gotta be it, that's where we're going."
"That's a long way off."
"We better get moving." Winston collapsed right in front of them causing everyone to rush to his side. His breathing was uneven and his injury was making it harder for him to move. A few of the boys made a carrier out of supplies they had grabbed, Minho and Fry using it to help Winston through the sand. Casey and Isa stayed behind the group.

"These are your friends? Shouldn't you be bouncing off the walls excited?"

"They've thought I was dead for four months Cas, I think they're more confused than happy to see me, and I can't blame them." She let out a breath. "No sign of the girls?"

"I thought you were with them." His mood instantly dropped.

"I went looking for you. I hope they made it out alive."
"Don't say that Is, they're alive, they're alive and ok. Hell they've probably made it halfway back by now." She smiled at the boy before noticing the looks she was receiving from Minho.

"He hates me, he hates me and I can't do anything about it."
"He doesn't hate you, he has no reason to."

"Everything is changing now. We bring them to Jorge, ya know what he's gonna do?"
"Go find Marcus?"
"Go find Marcus. We are so close to safety yet somehow I don't think that's how this is gonna go at all." There was silence for a moment.

"So the blonde one with an accent? That's him? He still wears the key, look at his wrist." Sure enough, around his wrist was the rope with the key. She smiled at the thought, grabbing on to her lock making sure it's still there. Her next words came out without thought and for everyone to hear.

"Is this everyone? Everyone that's.. That's alive?" They kept walking in silence, giving her all she needed for an answer. Gally, Ben, Alby, Clint, Jeff, Zart. Her friends were gone. Some were still with her, standing in front of her, alive, but this was no happy reunion.