Phoenix Fire: From Witin the Flames

An Insignificant Truth

Chapter 13

It’s been about 3 weeks... I’ve been trapped here for 3 whole weeks and I’ve come to realize that every day I have managed to make a schedule. I get up, have a bath or shower, get dressed have breakfast, go back to my room for half an hour, Warner picks me up and we walk around while he talks about new towns he’s captured taken-over and other things and how great it would be if I joined his team, I’ll walk with him for hours until lunch.

Then we have lunch at 12, and then I hang out with the others like me. Jenny and Linda are sisters, Jenny is has the power of Psychogenesis and Linda is a shape-shifter (but can only turn into living things, not including plants) Angela, who is a mind-reader, and Charlotte can manipulate air. Then the boys who are all brothers, the twins Luke and Luck who are healers Luck heals physical wounds and Luke heals the mental state of mind, and the youngest is Jacob who can manipulate time... speed... he could stop a speeding bullet and turn it around so it will shoot the shooter, just as an example.

I hang with them for hours, head back to my room get changed for tea, go back to my room, have a bath of shower then get ready for bed then go to bed. I hardly spend any time alone with Adrian, but when I do, Warner barges in and almost springs us, the only time he leaves me alone is when I’m have my showers or bathes, and when I go to bed. And this happens every day.

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I sigh, staring out the window as the sun sets the clouds of ablaze as it sinks below the horizon, like it does every day at this hour. I’m hanging out with the others, a book in my hand, open to the middle of it. The book was about a girl... Nadi trapped in a world of darkness where she couldn’t escape but still she searches for a way out... for a way back home. And a guy... Drake is searching for her... something along those lines. I got distracted by the setting sun... as usual.

“Why do you stare out the window all the time?” a little voice asks. I turn my head to look at the young face of Jacob; his big blue innocent eyes sparkle from the setting sun, his light brown hair scruffy, his cute childish features showing how truly innocent he was. He blinks tiredly and I smile at him. Laying my book open, face down on the table next to me I pat my lap. He was ten years younger than me and was just half my size. He sat on my lap

“Look at the sunset” I whisper into his ear. He stares out the window “isn’t it beautiful?” I say and Jacob nods

“Is that why you stare out to it so much?” he says in his sweet little voice and nod. That’s only the half of it. I smile

“Yeah,” I say half heartedly “I like the way the clouds catch fire the light” I said and Jacob nods

“Luke says you where... locked up in some big place called The Asylum,” I wince “What was is like? Did you have your own room, did you get lots of food....” I cringe, yeah, so innocent

“Jacob!” Luck yells from the other side of the room, seeing me flinch. Jacob turns and looks to me and sees my hurt expression he stops and looks to his lap. Luck storms over

“Sorry,” Jacob murmurs “I just get a little carried away... you see, I didn’t really have anyone else like me besides my brothers... and now I have so many I... get a little excited and carried away” he says softly, and wraps his fingers around my pointer finger. “I’m sorry” I loosen the tension in my shoulders, reliving the pain of my swelling bruise and wrap my arms around him. He wraps his arms over my neck.