Chapter 18: Another way?

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Willow tended to Damien's injuries while he sulked over the fact that he couldn't help Pip immediately. "It's not that bad, Damien. You'll be back on your feet in no time."

"It's not soon enough. Every minute we spend here is another minute where Philip is in pure agony. Who knows what they are doing to Pip down there! The punishments are based on past trauma, things that made him feel horrible back before he died! They just take that and make it even worse, physically, mentally, it doesn't matter. They make it worse!" Damien rants.

Willow sighs, "Damien, you can't do anything in this state. Trust me, Philip would much rather want you alive than dead because you were so focused on saving him." Damien just sighs and rolls his eyes.

Meanwhile, Stella was looking around, having her Disney princess moment as she played with a crow.

Kelly, on the other hand, was looking at trees, searching for another way into the torturer grounds since the X-tree wasn't opening. She picks up the spear that the now-dead guard was holding. It was letting out a purple glow, and Kelly was in awe at its beauty, "Damien! You're the prince of hell! Do you know anything about these weird glows!?"

Damien looks at her, then at the weapon, "Um... it's probably magic... based on how it didn't burn up when I blasted it with fire, it probably has some sort of fire resistance."

"Oh..." Kelly plays with the spear a little, "I like this weapon. I could use this to fight off people!"

Willow finishes mending Damien and turns to Kelly, "Yeah, well, let's hope we don't have to fight off people."

Kelly rolls her eyes and turns to the sun, "It's setting... how long were you all waiting for Damien!?"

Willow thinks, "A while... we walked for a while... then we fought the guard... then Damien fought the tree and hurt himself... then I guess the rest of the day was spent tending to wounds and... well, whatever y'all were doing." Kelly rolls her eyes and sighs.

She then thinks, "So should we sleep?"

"Sounds good. I'm already tired, and Damien needs to rest if we plan on going anywhere anytime soon." Kelly nods and goes over to Stella, who was still playing with the crow.

"Yo Stella, it's bedtime." Stella turns and sighs.

"It is? Ok..." Stella gets up with the bird on her arm and goes back over to the others. Kelly sighs as she looks back at where Stella once was. It was a beautiful spot, just beautiful if only Kelly knew what was going to happen in that spot later on.

As Kelly walked back over to where the others were, it was almost like it got colder in that one spot, like the winds picked up, or a ghost decided to rest right there, either way, it got cold.

If only they knew why. While the others got all their sleeping stuff out, which really just consisted of a few ragged blankets and semi-hard pillows that the girls had thought to bring along, Damien thought and thought hard about Pip and saving him, and about going. Maybe even thinking about going a little too soon.

-What y'all think?

-Word Count: 550

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