"A world that we do not know lies just before our eyes... And yet, try as we might, we still can't reach it. Why is that? Why aren't we allowed to live a normal life like all of you do?" He smiled sadly and continued to say: "'It's not time yet'...
A thick rope kept him tied to a tree as a precaution.
Eicca approached the stranger and squatted down to better analyse him.
His hair was chestnut brown, messy and wet from the rain. The rays of sunlight filtering through the grey clouds allowed the tan of his skin to be noticed clearly. His clothes looked worn, like they had been through a thousand storms. They were very different from those of hers and her siblings. And of course, the reason was evident to Eicca; the spirits had made the clothes they wore. According to the few memories she had of human civilisations, his seemed to have come from a great city... a Core City.
Tch. How annoying.
Eicca's image of humans was as bad, if not worse than the one she had of the Spirits. She had very few memories of her life as a human, but from what she could remember, she knew that the people around her back then were horrid.
And that made her bitter... made her angry.
The fact they needed to rely on a human to get off the island seemed ridiculous to her.
Correction.
They knew the island like the back of their hand, and wouldn't need a human to get off of it. They needed the human to guide them once they were off.
Us. Needing a human. Pathetic. But true...
But why this human!? Yes, he was definitely skilled enough to have made it to the island alive. But he attacked Veniss! Why would he? With what goal? Hell! How did he even get there in the first place? And why?!
Her thoughts were cut short.
"AGHHH!" Eicca fell backwards with a thud.
The human had regained consciousness and headbutted her.
"Eicca!" A very blurry Oneia was running towards her.
What is going on? She thought, her head spinning. Ah! Of course.
The human was running away.
That's what was going on.
"I'm fine! Don't let him out of the illusion!" Eicca exclaimed, getting on her feet as best she could.
What an idiot.
Her head still hurt and her ears were ringing.
She saw the human running. He was tripping over himself due to his injury, yet he remained agile. Luckily, Oneia kept him from going far by throwing flare after flare of fire.
"Eicca?" She heard Hankio's voice calling her from behind. He had come out of the cave, probably because he heard Oneia's flames. She chose not to turn around so as not to aggravate the pain in her head.
She decided to run towards the human instead. He was still trying to escape and they needed to knock him out. She knew that her sister could not resist any longer, since she was using a living flame, a type that only came out after the link with the spirits had been temporarily broken. The heat and light of the flames were momentary. They came and went just as quickly. She had to find the perfect opening.
Left, right, down, right... Up!
Oneia threw a flame upwards and Eicca appeared by surprise from below, knocking the man to the ground.
She could still hear her now trapped voice. Screaming, demanding to be let out. It burned. The headache wasn't helping. It constantly reminded her of the surprise blow by a sharp pain in her forehead.
Zachary walked over to the human, picked him up and disappeared with him. As Oneia collapsed from the mental strain, Collyn caught her... and Eicca succumbed to the headache. Darkness welcomed her, with open arms.
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