Arwa

14- Her Mercy

Hallow had now invited us into her home, well, it was a cave but if anything it looked like a nice shelter with a hammock, chairs, table and a fire.

She had hooked her staff on the wall and took off her hood,
"Please, make yourself at home. I have tea on the fire yes? You both must be freezing in that storm, why were you two even out there in the first place? It was raining only a couple of hours ago." Chimera gave a half hearted smile,
"Our den flooded. We's were able to grab coupla' things but they were only necessities I guess. We decided to move so it wouldn't got worser. We just came over 'ere to find a home."

Hallow then sat down hunched and sighed, all I could see in her face was sorrow. Then when she spoke she sounded teary,
"I- I'm sorry." Silence. She put her head in her hands,"I can't believe I attacked you. You're both children... you both don't have a home." She looked straight at me,"I had a weapon. I was going to kill you. And you were defenceless..." she looked at the hammer in my belt, I didn't know what to say, I just kept on lookin' at her,"No... you weren't defenceless. But that makes it worse. You could of attacked me. You could of hurt me. But you didn't. You could of taken out your weapon and protected yourself, protected him. But you didn't... and that makes me even more of a scourge."

I didn't think of it that way. I don't really think I was that heroic. I wasn't heroic at all. If anything I was stupid not to take out my hammer and protect Chimaera.

Yet Chimaera was the brave one. Despite his tiny size and weakened body and his inability to shape shift, he still chose to protect me. He had always chose to take the harder route, to leave his den he had been in for so long, to choose to ask me for help, to challenge Hallow. I remembered what he said before, 'Our den flooded' he said.
Our.