HYACINTH

chapter 20

[ Gone crazy]

Author pov...

Newly arrived comrades getting in the cold room filled with silence, one by one. From the atmosphere alone, they knew something had gone very wrong or something will go very wrong. After reading the situation inside there and counting the Cyrus outside having a mental breakdown, they realize it was two of them.

The ones already in the room not moving an inch, the boy who is crying, still screaming. His voice has cracked, no tears is coming from his dull orbs. Seeing things like that Luke dragged out Zeke with him to the hallway as the others remain in the room. Once they are gone Kane looked at his best friend looking so lifeless at him. no warm smile or anything. just a face of tiredness. Seeing that he rushed to him giving him a bone crushing hug.

"Care to fill us in?" Luke breathed.

"I don't know what to say actually... my mind is a mess." Zeke cried.

"Kendrix died, that baby in that crying child's embrace has died and Cyrus is going to die soon." Zeke ranted. "And I am here having hard time believing all those."

"This must be a joke, right? How can you say that Cyrus is going to die soon.!!" Luke raged.

"that's what I wished to happen but no... he got a bite from those monsters..." he explained. "Which apparently transforms you into one, in matter of four days..."

"And whose children is that?" Luke asked.

"I don't know actually. We found them near the waterfall" Zeke told him. "Where is Arlo? Lennox little brother.?"

Luke's mind went blank. How will he explain it to them. How will he tell Lennox that. How?

"He... died" he said in hallow tone. "I don't know how to explain that..."

He hugged Zeke with a trembling body as he took in quick sharp breaths. This was all too much for him. he had been pretending to be strong, but after knowing Cyrus is going to leave them soon... he can't pretend anymore. Only he knows how much he cried in sleep cause of the death happed Infront of him. not only Lavinia was traumatized cause of it but all whom witnessed that are.

In the inside of the room Lavinia here was hugged by a teary Kreois after she managed to separate the boy from the dead body and calm him down to some extent. Her heart pained seeing the sate the small child is in... how much pain would he feel. She couldn't even imagine that. Her eyes also became watery seeing how once happy and joyous Lennox's lifelessness. Which only made her worry more, because how are they going to tell him about the death of Arlo. How?

Leaving that aside for now she turned her attention to the child in her embrace. Still shaking and sobbing, she rubbed her hand on his back trying to reassure him that she is right there, and he can lean on her.

"what's your name?" she tried to get him to talk. "I am Lavinia."

"How old are you?... I am twenty-one..."

"what's your favorite color? Mine is black."

In the end she answered the questions she asked. Poor her. She looks at now soundly sleeping Kreois near her. Holding into her dress like his life depends on it. tiredness written all over his face even when he is asleep. She is also very tired after that long walk from the original camp site to here. That too without any resting time.

"Hey... Luke... can you put a fire up. It is getting cold here." She asked to Luke which just entered the room.

Seems like they finished burying that child as one by one came inside. Luke was busying himself in making fire which is taking a bit more time than usual. Not to mention the gloomy dead air in the room. It is making her suffocate.

"Is there something wrong... more precisely hiding from me?" she asked looking at everyone in the room.

Everyone stopped what they are doing for minute only to ignore her and to continue what they are doing. A deep sigh left her mouth as she stood up after placing the boy near Kreois.

"I am going to get Cyrus..." with that she was out.

Luke cursed at himself as soon as she went out. The fire was started a while ago. He was just too lost in the fire to notice anything. he is letting his emotions go wild again. it needs to be stopped.

"Things are going to go bad huh?" Kane sat near him. "May gods give her power to manage it."

"it's going to affect her more... it hurts man." Luke cried.

"We all will manage... be strong."

"I don't know... what I will say to her. How will I face her." Luke added. "When I am also in desperate need of help."

Kane knew this will be an outcome from the moment kendrix managed to meet him. he knows that losing friends and family will hurt... but hell, it hurts more seeing the person you cared for is lifeless. He had told Lennox about the death of Arlo but in return he got a more devastating news. He doesn't even know by telling Lennox he fulfilled his job or by no telling him that will fulfill his job.

"What a mess life has become" Kane breathed. "Let's make some food. We might starve to death."

In the meantime, on the outside things are going a bit out of hand. Both Cyrus and Lavinia arguing and scolding each other. What happened between them was, they both rejected each other's request. She asked him to go inside which he denied instantly, and he asked him to sit there and listen to what he is about to tell. They both decided to be brats and stick with their words.

"First of all, let's go inside then I will hear your talk." She shouted.

"No, first we will hear my talk and then go inside." He refused.

"Why can't you just listen to me."

"Right back at you." He let out a deep breath. "I don't have much time here."

"Right now, we both don't have. It is getting dark let's go inside.!!" She commanded.

"I am going to die soon. I don't have much time left!! Woman." He screamed against his heart.

She stopped at her steps, processing what he just said. Hands trembling, not with sadness but with anger. Tears following down as her eyes became red. Blood pumping into her ears making it red with her face.

"What did you just say? "She said with a forced smile.

"I said I am going to die soon-" his words were cut off with a slap.

"Don't. don't you dare say anything like that. Who are you to say when you are going to die huh. I never thought you are like those morons. People like that have no value in my eyes." She screamed. "If you are fucking dying then why are you dying tomorrow. You can die before also... you can die after tomorrow. I didn't say you to not to die. Do you even think about us. No, you wouldn't. after all the one who is suddenly obsessed with dying wouldn't."

"Enough Lavinia." he breathed.

"Who the fuck is stopping you. Go and die. I don't even care. You sadistic bustard. – "

Slap,

"Have you lost your mind!!!" he screamed.

Pain and anger visible in his face as he dashed inside. Leaving a blank minded Lavinia behind in the pitch darkness. Her right cheek forming a red handprint from that slap. She let out a broken laugh holding her dead. Which eventually turned into a scream. So loud that the people in the room heard it.

"Why is everyone keeping things from me. Am I that weak and unreliable?" she looked up at the sky.

"Dad, this is all your fucking fault."

End of chapter twenty

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 sorry for late update, I have been busy lately. T-T