The flight of a flame

Chapter 3 part 1

Ok so I've been using third person and I wanted to try first person, so I'm going to use first person. I'm going to try and use first person to give you proper insight into what Eva's thinking. Let me know what you think!

A firm hand grasped my wrist, another clasped tightly over my mouth, whoever made this decision, was going to regret it. They pushed me to a wall, it was Cameron's brown eyes, soft against her dark skin, she released my hand and put a finger to her lips, and slowly removed her other hand. She beckoned me to follow, and I did, until we got to a small house and entered.

When the door closed, my hand reached for her face and made contact with her cheek. "Ok, I understand why you did that, but was it necessary to do it that hard?" She wheezed, rubbing her hand on her cheek.
"Yes, it was, and why are we here?" I replied carefully "you mentioned you know who I am, what do you mean by that?" I had to know what she knew before I told her anything.
"You're the Avis." The slap had left it's mark. Unable to deny being 'the Avis', Latin for bird, I bowed my head. "Then you can come with me, somewhere safe." Again, I followed, until she moved a bookshelf to the side, revealing a basement. It would've been personally dug out, because Australians don't have basements.

"Anything else I should know?" Cameron asked

"Not a thing is hidden."

"Except your wings." With that, I opened my wings as far as I could, wing tips brushing the walls. She smiled pulling on a pair of glasses, "so, I'm a scientist." She started as though it was an entrance to a speech. "And I am an observer. Why the ring? Where'd that mark come from?" Darn it, she saw right through me.

I slid the ring off, and found some paper. It was blank. I picked it up. And held it up to Cameron. it begun to burn. Cameron let out a gasp. "How long have you been able to do that?" She asked. "Just today, I wanted extra luck, and took my mother's ring. I've never met any of my parents. I thought I'd just put it on, then I wanted to satisfy myself with burning paper. That's when I learned gold prevents it, but not gold coins, it has to surround my skin." She made some notes in her book, then looked at the time. "It's getting late." She told me, "I'll get you some dinner. There's a bed in the other room." She pointed to a door across the basement, went up the stairs, slid the bookcase back into place, and entered one of the other 2 doors.

When Cameron entered the room, she had a plate of food, it was some stake, medium rare, some chimichuri, potatoes and greens. In the other hand was a jug of gravy, I slid my ring on, and she dashed away to get her own plate. "I hope you enjoy, I made it myself." I poured some gravy on my stake, taking a big bite, as I finished the bite, I decided to ask some questions. "So why work at Woollies, when you could become a chef?" This made her giggle, but she decided riddles were fun. "I watched you, as you flew up to a building half way across town, you stayed far up, until you went home, I watched as you exited as Eva, climbing quietly across to an ally way, where Eva went and begun her walk to work, it was at that moment I decided I'd keep a close eye on you."

In no time, the dinner was over, and I went to sleep, I was brought to the raft in the middle of the ocean, except the sky in what I believed to be my happy place, was filled with cloud. Lightning shot the water in front of me, a tower of smoke came and cleared. There was a giant lady, her head above the clouds that then started to clear, and were light, not storm. Her clothes where dark blues, purples and dark greys. Suddenly, I was on a circular pillar, I had ditched the raft, and was now above the clouds. The giant lady looking at me with glossy white eyes. "I've been observing you. When you came in yesterday, I didn't know how you got here, but then it was clear you were worthy of coming here." She looked as though she may have been blind, she had no pupil, so one might assume so. "What is this place?" I asked slowly. The woman sighed quietly and looked around, "it's a thought space, where you can go if you need to train, learn or just think, that's why you came here to learn pyrokinesis. But if someone with a disability comes here, it removes their disability until they leave. For example, deaf people can hear, paralysed people can move," she hesitated for a second, "and blind people can see." She smiled shyly, before explaining that her name is Aura, she's around the same height as me, but the 'training place' called the Aro, made her giant and she's the last of a group of magic guardians called the Midnight lotus.