Why Won't They Tell Me?

Five Painfully Long Hours Later..

Twelve was pretty sure that Eighteen was about to pass out.

He'd grabbed her and rushed away and has been going at it for exactly five hours by now.

"Hey, Eighteen?"

"No time to talk! Gotta speed!"

"How about you take a break?"

"Can't. No time to switch either, it'll get us!"

"No it won't. You left it in the dust, look behind you."

Eighteen simply kept flying.

"Eighteen."

No answer.

"Please, just stop to look behind you."

Nothing.

"Eighteen!"

"I can't sis! I don't wanna look back. It's too fast, and I'm so tired.."

"You are!?"

Twelve peered over and saw his eyelids closing and snapping open.

"Eighteen you can't keep going! Stop!"

"Keep going, I can't let it get us!"

Twelve had enough and pulled him backwards, using her own rays.

"Sis! What are you doing?! You... we'll get caught!"

"Look!"

The darkness was visible, but it was very far away.

"Let's say we find the emergency meeting point, and if anybody's there. We can stay with them." Twelve started, "You need your energy, and I need my sanity, so come on."

She took his arm and pulled him along, much to her chagrin, Eighteen didn't seem to mind much, or even register a thing she said.

"Brother?"

"Hey sis?"

"Yeah?"

"What if we're the only ones left?"

"Well, then we'll stay at the point."

"But what do we do when the darkness gets there?"

"Hopefully we can repel it by then."

"Hey sis?"

"Hm?"

"What if we can't?"

"I dunno.."

"Hey sis?"

"Yes?"

"What if we can't run away anymore?"

"We don't run then, we find another way."

"Sis?"

"What?"

Eighteen smirked.

"Race you!"

With that he took off.

Twelve sat there for a moment, and then activated her rays as well.

"That's no fair! Come back!" She laughed, happy that her ever-energetic brother still had some of himself left.

Eighteen swerved around, wildly flying over and under random things, but in all his playfulness, he failed to see the branch that stuck awkwardly out of the ground.

Smacking it, he fell and rolled a good distance away.

"Oh no! Eighteen!?"

Twelve rolled him over only to see him grinning.

"Haha! I win!"

Twelve sighed, relieved that he was okay, she opened the secret door and walked down the stairs, Eighteen, thinking that nobody was down there, decided to shout "Guess who?", causing a bit of ruckus.

"Uh, did I startle somebody?"