A New Beginning

Supposed lies and Enemies

Debra could not shake that feeling that she had just saw her brother and yet it felt like they were both not ready to meet each other with their stories. No, not yet. She started double thinking whether she had really saw her brother but the boy-man she just saw had an uncanny look to Dale. Lost in her deep thoughts, she rubbed her hands against each other and looked up. Suddenly, a hand reached out in front of her and pushed her back while pulling her to the left. Shayne gripped Debra's other shoulder and asked worriedly if she was fine. Debra tried to clear the clouds from her mind but Shayne knew at one glance that something was wrong but she just did not know what it exactly was. Shayne released her grasp and picked up the wheelbarrow again but still tried to lighten the mood by joking, "Just try not to smack into too many trees, okay?" Debra, obviously still lost in her thoughts, simply nodded an affirmative with her heads still in the clouds. Shayne sighed and resorted to walking behind Debra while pushing her in the right direction. Even the strange scenery could not distract Debra even for a short time. Shayne then made a mental note to return with Emma to the village for answers.

When they arrived back at the camp, Debra made a beeline for a rock to 'sharpen her sword' or so she said which was a total lie as Debra had purely forgotten that she had no sword. Shayne went to Emma and relayed to her exactly what had happened and Emma did not need a second thought before she nodded.

"And Emma, we got our weapons back. This just feels like it is twice the original weight then when I gave the weapons to Jen," Shayne called out to Emma when she started to turn away. Emma was deciding whether she was interested in the sudden load of weapons when her curiosity peaked the top of its chart and forced to turn around. She raised an eyebrow and asked, "Is that so?"

"Oh yeah."

"Huh," Emma said with a slight tilt of her head while rummaging and tossing every weapon onto the ground.

"Can you not?!" Shayne huffed impatiently while picking up each and every weapon on the floor and arranging them into a neat stack. Emma then stopped and looked up with a few throwing knives in her hands. Shayne rolled her eyes but nonetheless took a sword from the pile that had a intricately carved electric yellow with the blade wildly serrated and handed it to Emma. Emma accepted it without even glancing at it and placed it in her scabbard. She then walk towards the forest and picked a poor tree to draw a target on. She walked back a few meters, brought her arm back and thrust it forward with a sudden movement which caused the throwing knife to lurch forward and spin wildly while still aiming in the direction of the target. Then it hit the target. Emma who was already walking once she threw her knife, reached the tree and cursed when she realised she was an inch off bullseye.

"Ah, damn it! I'm out of practice."

"Wait, you mean you did this before? I was so worried that you would kill some poor soldier." Emma glared at Shayne before plucking the knife from the tree and stalking back to her previous position.

"I was a slight to the right and down so... to the left, higher and throw," Emma muttered to herself while correcting the position of her arm. With the same sudden lurch of her arm, the knife soared and finally struck dead center. She smiled towards herself but then that smile fell when she realised she had embedded the knife to the hilt in the tree. She then reluctantly stalk off to Shayne and meekly asked for help to remove the knife. Shayne shook her head while grinning at Emma's partial failure which Emma protected by saying it would definitely kill someone. Shayne pulled out the knife with little force because of her affinity and handed it back to Emma hilt first.

"Oh, I gave Debra a sword so she could actually 'sharpen her sword' and not look retarded. I still doubt that the sword needs sharpening but it is her choice. And I told everyone not to near her. She might kill them, you never know," Shayne told Emma who raised both eyebrows at Shayne's sudden 'niceness'.