The Raven Legacy

CHAPTER 8

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I woke up with a start and covered in a light sweat.  In my dreams I kept seeing Marvin's face. His dull and lifeless eyes looking at me.  The scene of his death playing over and over again in my mind like a song on repeat.

I looked too my left and saw that Kira was still asleep with a small frown on her face.  I pulled the covers of the bed away and went to sit on the windowsill. It was still dark out but at least the moon casts a light over this dark world before me.  The water beneath me shimmers.

After what felt like an hour the sun started to make its appearance over the horizon.  I heard a small whimper coming from behind me and when I turned I saw Kira had a painful expression in her face.  Then just as I was about to go to her she shot straight out of the bed and ran to hide in the corner of the room. I walked with caution towards her,  trying not to scare her because it looked like she thought she was still in the dream.  Tears were streaming down her face. Just by looking at her face filled with agony, my heart broke.

I reached forward to put my hand on her shoulder but she flinched away, moving further into the corner of the room to put as much distance between us as she can. She pulled her knees up to her chest and wrapped her arms around them.

"Kira its okay.  Its just me,  Dawn. " I said to her softly,  holding out my hand to her.  She snapped out of her daze and looked at me with a bit of hesitance before she took my hand. I pulled her in for a hug trying to calm her down but she was tense in my arms as if hugging was something unfamiliar to her. .  After a few moments she hugged me back and we just stood there.  She was still shaking a bit but she was no longer crying. She pulled back after a while and wiped her face with her sleeves.

"Are you okay? " I asked her with concern,  my hand still on her shoulder.  She just nodded her head and looked down as if she was embarrassed about breaking down in front of me.

"Its okay, you know?  Its okay to let it all out once in a while. Keeping it bottled up inside of you is not healthy." I told her.

"I know that,  Dawn.  But around here showing weakness by breaking down like that will only give them more power over me.  I will not give them the satisfaction of seeing me like that. Truth be told that's the first time I've cried since being here. "

"Then you're a lot stronger than I am.  I was with them for a total of two days before I cried when Erin stabbed me. " I said looking towards the window again.

"Wait,  you were stabbed? Why though? " She asked me, shocked.

"Yeah, it hurt like hell.  They though I killed Marvin but some jackass set me up because he thought I deserved it. "

I told her lifting up my shirt a little to show her.  Then I realized that I felt no pain coming from my wound. Strange. I took off my shirt completely, not caring about being half naked in front of her, and started to take off the bandages.

What the hell!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I was stunned.  There were my wound was supposed to be was just a scar about 5 centimeters long. 

"That's not possible.  I haven't been here that long for it to have been healed allready." I said more to myself than her.

"Maybe your body just heals faster than normal. " She said trying to reassure me.