The Stolen Truth

The Dry Water

Ires stepped over the many sticks and stones that littered the path back to the camp. Ires stopped at a roaring river that carried anything unfortunate enough to wade deep into its water. Ires sat on a large stone at the base of the body of water, and focused his mind on the gold bracelet and closed his eyes.
'Come on stupid bracelet, show me something'
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The wind slapped his face with the force of a jackhammer and Ires doubled back. He stood up the dew-filled grass and shook the water off his coat and spared a look around him. The whole scenery was almost just too much to bear. The mountains that were off in the distance shone out with a purifying radiance, water trickling down its side, it contents sparkling in the sun's light.

Below the mountains there was a deep valley, pitch-black as far as Ires could tell, nothing but darkness from where Ires stood. A cold gust of wind and traveling behind Ires into a fog-covered land. He took a step forward and leaned over the edge and saw an inferno devouring everything at the very bottom of the hell-hole. "Holy sh...." His voice trailed off as he noticed houses and people in the far distance down there. His ears trembled as a voice. No. Voices. Voices turned into screams. That turned into high-pitched screams of inhuman laughter.
"What the hell is going down there"

Ires scrambled back and laid on his back back, closed his eyes and wished that he could just go back and wake up and pretend that never happened.

Ires opened his eyes to the stream and the trees the covered him. He jumped in relief and turned to go to the camp that Seliva had built.

The camp was almost done as he entered it and suddenly found a pair of arms around him and being tackled to the ground.
"Why would you do that, Ires?!"
Ires could only grunt in response and pushed the girl off him slightly.
"Seliva, would you mind um.. getting off me.. can't breath."
Seliva relisesd her iron-hold on Ires and exclaimed "I'm sorry Ires" and stood up so I could breath.
"Its okay, though next time please don't tackle me into a pulp"
Seliva just nodded and moved back and spoke again. "Its just that you were gone for two whole days!!"

I put all my stuff in the small backpack that I picked up in the castle. Ires looked over his shoulder to glance at Seliva and groaned.
The girl was slowly packing her stuff and it was going to slow them down.
"Come on Seliva, you know we have to go back, there might be supplies that might help us.
She was quiet a few moments. "What if we run into more of them"
He knew what she meant. "Maybe they're all dead by now." Then he thought, Yeah, but they have a better chance of surviving than us in some castle. This assumed there were more people that hated their guts, out there.

Seliva was not as unhappy as Ires had expected her to be, even when he tolded her how things might be a little diffrent when they had to start fighting back to survive.
Over the next two hours, Ires re-inventoried their supplies on hand, deciding what they should bring or what would just weigh them down and, if it came down to it-if one of them got hurt- who would carry what.

Ires leaned over when they finished sorting their supplies. "Hey Seliva, what do you know about hunting, setting traps, that kind of thing?"
She looked over at Ires. " I know how to hunt and set traps, but I don't know anything about hunting."
Ires nodded. "My father showed me how to hunt with a bow when we were on vacation, of course my mother was never in agreement with the idea that I had the knowladge of how to handle a bow by myself. I also luckly know how to construct a bow out of scrap."
"You know what, tommorow, we go out with the bow. Okay?" Ires added.
"Why are we talking about this?" Seliva added quickly.
"Because." Opening the backpack once more, Ires added something to it. "If something happens to me, or we get separated somehow,you need to know these things."
She stared at him for a long moment. "Nothing's going to happen to you." Thought it was, in fact more likely that something would happen to happen to him
"Belive me, I'd just as soon not go anywhere either, but we can't just stay couped up forever."
Seliva still looked worried then replied. "Then we should get to learning the bow as soon as possible."
"Okay. We'll get going. So." Ires stood up from the dirt and looked around. "Leave in two days?"
She nodded. "Sounds like a plan."