The Wither's Wake

Chapter 5: The Books Of Destiny

"Use your totem!!" Green screamed. He looked so scared, like I was his sister. I grabbed the totem of undying just before I hit the ground. I popped up next to Green, panting. I had the books, I had tucked in thomas's book into my cloak. "You ok?" He was all over me. "I thought I was gonna lose you!" A person walked from behind Green. "You know you shouldn't do that...'' Green stood up "Hey pat." He was still looking at me. I got up from the floor. "Who are you?" I asked shaking, my head. "I'm Patrick," He said, he quickly shoved his hand into my cloak, grabbing Richards' book. "H-hey!" I tried to grab it back from him. He threw it back without much effort, onto the shelf it was originally on. "When you grab someone's book and you shouldn't, it will cause an explosion." Patrick explained grimly. "Oh..." I looked plaintively at Green. "Sorry" He looked disappointed in me. He knew that, but he trusted me to grab our books only. Green perked up for all our sakes. "We have to keep moving. Especially after all this time we wasted." I sat up and nodded. "Let's go." I was still sorry of course.

We had started walking back and Green told me to stay with Richard as he went somewhere. Richard was running toward me. "Icara! Are you ok?" I realized I looked pained, and I did my best to change my demeanor. "I fell, that's all."

I looked down, "How!?" He looked so worried, he was only eighteen and i was only seventeen, yet he seemed so childishly worried, it seemed that there was only so much he could take. "I tried to grab your book... I'm sorry." I did it. I confessed. "w-what? Why?" He had something he did not want me to know. I know it. "I-I don't know, you just haven't been yourself lately and I wanted to find out why." He looked shocked. "I feel like myself... I don't know." I shouldn't have done that. "I'm sorry" I hugged him. "I told you, I'm still feeling bad about what I did. It's hard to let that go but this isn't making it any better Icara." I had stopped hugging him, wiping my eyes out. Then a large explosion happened in the direction where Green went. I started running over.