Lost Memories

Chapter 11 Who are you?!

Waking up cold feels normal. I don't think it should. As it is, I am cold. Very cold. But not in the 'I'm going to die from hypothermia' way, just the 'I can feel it's cold' way. Definitely weird considering it's snowing; and I woke up in it.

How'd I end up here? Where is here? Who-

"Oh! Hey. I wasn't sure if you were here too, do you-"

A person just walked up to me. I think I should've been listening to the person. They seemed to know what was going on. In hindsight I know that. Currently, well..

"Who are you?!"

"Wha? Zane-"

"Why isn't it cold? It should be cold! Where are we?! Who am I!!?"

"Okey..tha- that's a lot to unpack.. let's, uh. Let's start with.. um. Do you remember any- anything?"

"No." My breathing is short

"Okay. How about we take big breaths and stop the hyperventilating. It looks like it's only making it worse."

"Ya think!"

"Ok. Let's do uhh. Let's do a five-count." I glare at him, I don't know what that is.

"Ok. Foll- follow my breathing ok?"

He takes a breath in, counting up with his fingers in wave sort of motion, as he does so. Then as he gets to five he takes a breath out, his fingers going down in the opposite direction. He does this a few times until I get my breathing normal myself.

"Ok, um, now that that's over, would you like, uh, like answers on- answers to- well. Answers from what I know myself or would you like to get out of the cold.. ish."

"Cold."

"Ok. That's a start. Oh, um I'm uh.. Lloyd. I'm Lloyd. And you, you're Zane."

"Can you stop saying ok?"

"Yep, sorry. I'll stop now.."

"Do you normally stutter?.. Lloyd."

"Hm? Oh uh, no? No. I just do when I'm scared too."

Lloyd gets up, looking around. "There's a cave, I think, not too far over there. It should work." He points towards his left, my right, to some rocky hill-ish areas. There is a cave over there, so I get up to follow him.

"You came with the staff right?" He- Lloyd says, I think to himself. He's not looking over at me.

"What staff?"

"Hm?" He walks over to this dark brown thing in the snow. "Oh, this thing that's supposed to boost powers." He goes to pick it up, I walk closer to him.

"Powers? Woah!" He picks it up for a second before dropping it, but in that second his hair lit up in a greenish glow, his eyes too if him rubbing them is to go by.

"Forgot about that." He huffed a laugh as if that meant something to him. "You said you're not cold right? Could I borrow your gi top then? To carry this for now."

He gestured towards my chest where a white gi is. This means something. He's wearing one too, but in green. I take it off to see more layers underneath with the outline of something else under as well.. ....

"Why am I Silver?!!"

"Ow.. can that one wait too? or do you need that one right now. Cause I don't have many answers and you're gonna have more." He wraps my gi around the staff and picks it up again, not glowing this time.

"I'll-" I feel dizzy. "I'll wait."

"Ok. We should probably go then, cause I'm starting to lose feeling in my fingers." He looks over to the side, away from the cave. "We gotta bring that with us at some point soon."