A Lost Memory: Alitheia

Episode 9: Pending Slag Machis

"Uhm- Akira," Fitz changes the subject, and he shot up from his laying position next to her, 'Yes, love."

"For the last time, stop calling me love," rolling her eyes and adds, "Why were you naked-"

"Half- naked," he corrects her.

"Alright, Half- naked on my banister outside," and Colchester chimes in "I was put on quite the show," Jiro snickers beside him, snacking on strawberry covered pretzel sticks.

"Oh come on, you enjoyed it!" he exclaims and shoots back, "Why were you in the woods again after you were specifically told you only needed to do it once?"

"Patrolling, obviously," Eliza retorts, seated in-between Colchester and Mandisa.

"Aww, defending him now. Come on babe, show them what you got," Akira pokes Fitz, and she sneers, "Babe?"

"Got a whole list, don't yeh?" Colchester counters, "What, you feeling left out, Coley- boy?" and tosses a spicy chip from the bag in his hand.

"Anyone wants Pocky?" Jiro exclaims, in-between the two, and lifts the pink box in the air.

"I saw this weird looking bird outside my window when I was showering," Akira finally explains and Kacey freezes in her seat.

"Wah-" she starts off afraid of even speaking the words out loud and Mandisa places a reassuring hand on her arm.

"Was is a swan?" Kacey manages to ask and Akira shakes his head.

"Nah, I don't know what kinda bird that was but it had these weird glowing red eyes," He trails off and changes the subject, while doing so Kacey left with her own thoughts.

'It couldn't be the same bird I saw, could it?' she thought and Mandisa almost reading her mind assured he lr that it was probably just a coincidence.

"So like, what do you do if you being chased by like a monster throwing objects?" Akira blurst out, filling the awkward silence from before.

"Is it stagnant or running after us?" Colchester replied in his monotonous tone. He eyes the new resident's hands of fresh deep scars and Mandisa pulls her sleeves over, covering them.

"Let's make it fun then, it's chasing after us" Fitz calls out and passes a packet of sweets backs and forth in the middle of Akira and Kacey.

"Okay, so it's chasing us, hurling objects, and we need to figure out how to escape or defeat?" Eliza queries and motions Mandisa for the bag of popcorn in front of her.

"Why not make the main objective escape and bonus points if we defeat it?" Kacey suggests despite herself and stuffs her face with a combo of chocolate balls and popcorn.

"Yeh, that could work too," Akira settles on it.

"Goose!" Jiro yells and erupts bursts of laughter from everyone.

"What?" Fitz in-between fits of giggles.

"You know, like the game" Jiro defends and puffs his cheeks.

"We know what you mean, but I think that's the wrong word" Mandisa calmly states and successfully soothes his anger.

"Ah! Then what's the right word?" Jiro tilted his head, curious. The room falls silent and the residents yell in unison.

...

"DUCK!"

Jiro's voice rings throughout their room at Akira, he faces behind and quickly does as command. They watch an immense black figure fly across the room above them like a passing storm cloud.