the game

ken

katie is a flurry of questions without answers. sometimes i feel like if i dipped my fingers into her eyes they might lead into an ice cold lake. a lake surrounded by snow and mountains and pine. the more i the more i think about it the lonelier the image appears. i do not know what to expect from her and that is the hardest part.

the hardest part about getting her alone with me. the hardest part about getting her to trust me. the hardest part about getting my goal fulfilled. my fists clench as our feet crunch across the lawn.

"who are you going to face off with first?" i grin.

she throws her hover board to the ground and gets on. i don't even think she hears me shes so focused. this is something else that i hate. she is more than focused. she looks like me when i'm about to take down a difficult enemy. i follow after her bleach blonde hair until she shoves it under her black hood. in her wake i smell her rose scented perfume. she is like the wind on her hover board. it feels as if the ground were parting for her. there is a streak of dim blue that lingers in her wake constructed from the only fast moving light in the darkness. in fact, our hoverboards are the the only well lit things in the near vicinity.

"what are you looking for?" i ask. she doesn't respond again. i sigh and continue bolting after her. and then just as suddenly as she started she stops. i almost don't stop fast enough. and then she throws her hover board in an orb and hides behind the foliage. in the distance there's a group of figures gathered in the darkness. i hear a cold laugh from one. and then from another. i don't know these laughs, i wonder what high school they graduated from?

and then katie moves silently towards the next tree. i follow after swiftly. this tree is barely enough to cover the two of us though. the foliage like ocean waves have ebbed at the edge. in fact we're so close i can smell the rose perfume close enough to establish it is her shampoo. i pull the hood back over her head. she jumps silently. i press my palms against her shoulders with a reassuring smile. slowly one of her life giving hands reaches up and taps on my right hand as if to push me away. then she pulls away towards another clump of greenery. i roll my eyes and follow after her.

from here the group of students is easier to see. and then i see one of katie's hands clench. then, as if on fire, she begins vibrating.

"worthless scum," she snarls. "how dare they go after her, ken, go throw a forcefield around kassie."

and she breaks out of the foliage. i barely have enough time to scoop kassie out of the center of the circle using a forcefield ball and an electric lasso. i bring her towards me as i hear a crack like the skies are colliding and feel an electric charge fill every fiber of my being. it burns and hurts and everything in me is on fire. what kind of horrible strength is this? i've never felt anything this terrifying. and that's when i see her face.

katie is standing among a mess of desolving black sand with eyes that sear a glowing neon blue. they burn in the darkness her veins alight, sparking and glowing around her hands. she looks deranged and i feel a shiver that has nothing to do with the weather cascade down my spine. and then just as quickly as her rage existed it deceases. 

the only problem is my body is at its limit. taking that attack and using a complicated combination to get kassie over here has left me energy less. even if i want to look scary i don't have it in me. as my eyesight goes katie races at me and buries herself in my body. i hug her tight and let the rose smell overpower my senses. the throbbing in my head is being replaced with the hum of her power in my veins. i squeeze her closer to me.

this must be what peace feels like.

how am i going to kill this?