Nature's Comeback

2B-🌧 Water Rewards Kindness🌧

The team leader frowned, turning over the red chit again and again, not understanding the meaning behind the sentence. Shrugging, he decided to put another chit in and received another round of confusion, as he read the translated version of the blue chit.

"Water Rewards Kindness."

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"Quickly put out the fire before people start to get more suspicious," Neer insisted, his eyes nervously darting back and forth between the fire and his unfazed sister.

"Don't you think people will get more suspicious if such a huge fire suddenly dies down?" Ahana asked, rolling her eyes at her brother.

"You are right," Neer said, running his hand through his hair.

"What should we do then?" He asked, looking lost.

Ahana shrugged in response, "Just let it be. My energy is at its lowest. The fire would die down on its own."

"On its own? Shit! That means...we will have to hurry and find a place where the sun is still out, before your body gives out."

The subject of tension changed from the bike to his sister, however the level of worry didn't.

"Let's leave," he stated while moving towards their temporary shelter to take their bags.

Their bags were always packed. They didn't know when their abilities would make a show and they would have to run away again. After being thrown out from home, this was their tenth shelter. And now it was time for the eleventh one.

Neer started his second-hand bike and Ahana sat beside him as they went off to find a new place.

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"Woah! What's happening?" Ahana shouted, as the bike started going down the slope.

"It stopped," Neer yelled out, while trying to control the bike.

They were riding upwards with full speed when their bike decided to die down and it naturally went backwards because of the slope.

Both of them tried to put down their legs in an attempt to stop the bike from going downhill.

"Aaaaa," a cry left their lips, as they went flying and fell into the nearby bushes. Fortunately, the bike didn't crush them as it fell a little away.

"Ow," Neer groaned, while looking at his scratched elbows and knees.

"We shouldn't have invested in that junk," Ahana grumbled, looking at the bike.

Cursing out a little more, both the siblings stood up and continued their journey on foot.

Ahana was happy as the sun blazed through the mountains. Slowly her energy was coming back and irritation too started leaving her mind.

"Why did you have to choose mountains of all places?" Neer asked, puffing out air.

"What's wrong? You seem too tired," Ahana questioned back, worried for her brother.

"My energy is draining. It's too hot here," Neer answered in a breathless tone.

He couldn't detect water nearby, from where he could get his energy back. However, what confused him was the essence of water he felt throughout the walk. It was like water was near but still it wasn't there.

"How is this possible?" Ahana frowned.

She made Neer sit down on a huge rock at the side of the road, while trying to look down the mountain road they had walked.

"I wanted to get my energy back faster, so I chose a place that was closest to the sun.

"Plus this place is known to have waterfalls. Thus, I thought this would be a perfect place for you too," Ahana said, while taking a seat beside him.