Starry glass

Chapter Fifteen Trellis

I could literally feel my mind disappearing. It was not the most pleasant thing I had ever felt but then again, maybe I was feeling someone else's mind leaving them and I was perfectly fine. If what you call "perfectly fine" going insane while feeling people's pain as your own. then yes I was fine. While I was frothing on the floor, Dwit was nice enough to come by and stare at me.

I don't know why he was staring at me but hey maybe he was just worried. I don't know if he was being kind or creepy but I decided to think of it as kind. Creepy would not be very nice. I don't know how long I sat there drooling and mumbling but eventually someone put their arms under mine and heave upwards. I think it was Dwit or Story but I don't really remember.

I made a gasping noise as I started walking. I felt like something was wrong with my feet. It felt like knives in my feet pushing in deeper each time I stepped. I felt agony in each step I whimpered and groaned. The person seemed to have compassion and half carried me out into the bright sunlight. I felt like I was going to pass out from the pain but I tried to hold on. I squinted against the harsh light that greeted my eyes. I felt like someone was making me stare right at the sun.

I also felt like I was going to throw up and fall over and many other things. Anyways, as I squinted around I felt like the pain was lessening. I frowned. I actually knew who I was. I was no longer just a million faces in pain. I was now Trellis feeling all the pain. It still hurt but it was more bearable. I sighed then breathed in and out feeling the fresh air sooth my lungs.

I felt more alive than I had in the past month? week? year? I honestly don't know, but It felt amazing. The person seemed to sense my 'change in mood' as they looked over at me with a face of confusion on.

I smiled at him.

That seemed to confuse him more than anything else. But I didn't know who was half carrying me out. That's when I saw his face. My eyes hardened and I yanked my arm away from his. I glared at him.

Stark.

Stark backed away a look of pain on his face. I narrowed my eyes at him wondering what sort of trap he was setting up for me now. Stark looked at me as if shamed. He also looked like he was about to weep. I glared at him, still convinced that it was a trap.

"What are you doing here?" I growled my voice scratchy from under use and screaming. Stark raised his hands in a non threatening way.

"Trellis, listen to me." I eyed him but I listened "it's not- '' His sentence cut off suddenly as if he had choked on something. I backed away from him.

"Wha-" Then he leaped at me. I felt like a wolf as I leaped away. I felt like I had been a wolf and a hunter for a long time. I growled and my predatory instincts kicked in. I growled baring my teeth. I was quite ready to bit my teeth into his flesh but the human part of my brain thought that I might not want to do that.

I growled my face scrunching up into a snarl. I felt my mind merging with the wolves. I howled a warning to all the wolves in my pack. There was a dangerous man and I needed help. Stark was now looking around in slight alarm as a couple wolves padded through the forest. I growled again warning him to stay away. Stark started breathing heavily but then he tried to make himself look as big as possible. I shed back slightly but I didn't run.

Stark was breathing hard as he backed away from us. I growled at him again and he soon disappeared. After the threat was gone I slowly felt the wolf's mind withdrawing from mine. I collapsed in a heap as the wolves left. They paid no attention to me, not even looking in my direction. It felt strange, almost like a betrayal but then again, I was not a wolf so it shouldn't have mattered to me. I felt like I had just made a breakthrough but I didn't know what it could have been.