Kill Or Be Killed

Chapter Fifty-Eight

Scale Number: slight 4 (After dream)

Something was wrong.

Cat couldn't focus on anything in particular to pinpoint the problem, but she just knew.

Everything was dark at first, total blackness surrounded her, suspending her on her back as if she was floating in the middle of space. When she tried to move or turn herself so she was no longer lying back, it was impossible to move. It wasn't until she began to panic that shades and lines slowly began to blur into focus.

Creating an undisclosed location right before her eyes, flooding it with colors of various hues.

In minutes she was sitting in the middle of a common area, a shared space like a living room but filled with books and other things like a library or study. The rare bare walls were raw logs as if the building were some kind of log cabin. But it had to have been huge, since the room itself was larger than the whole first floor of her old farm house.

She almost jumped off the shagged area rug when something moved a foot or so to her left. Only to realize she wasn't alone, Kal was sitting beside her; his hand had even been on her leg, his fingers lazily rubbing up and down the inside of her leg. Not looking around to see if there was anyone else around, unable to look away from him at first. Like it was the first time she was seeing him, ever. Her heart swelled and skipped a beat as she was filled with the heavy sensation of affection.

He gave her thigh a little squeeze when he felt her attention on him, and although he always had a mind for her, most of his attention was on the papers and maps in front of them. Coming up with a survival strategy for the upcoming events that would inevitably happen.

Cat, however, had grown bored of staring at maps and the same reports that came from the scouts keeping an eye out at the property line. So she finally looked around the rest of the area, only to come up short when she reached the elongated couch no more than three yards away. Her attention now locked on the two young girls who she could have sworn she knew, but had never seen before in her life.

No one had to tell her, she knew. Her heart knew exactly who they were, the two little angels who had grown far faster than anyone had prepared her for. Just a short time ago, the two of them had still been sheltered in her womb. Now? They were more than three feet tall and clinging to their own stuffed animals as they watched the learning cartoon on the television against the far wall. There was no sound coming from it, with the subtitles on; at the insistence of Kalayavan who had no patience for the obnoxiously high pitched voices or repetitive songs.

Unsure of how she knew, looking at the two who was who and just how different they were.

On the left Aurora, with her dirty blonde hair nearly a carbon copy of her mother, was more like her father despite her appearance. Well contained, nothing like a toddler or the week old infant she actually was. She was focused entirely on the words that were flashing across the bottom of the screen. Taking in their meanings and following long with the show; word for word. The perfect little student; the same kind of soldier those animals had been trying to create the entire time.

Next to her, almost hid behind her sister, Amara; who had the same dark strands as her father, was more human than Relevent. However, she could keep up with her sister's effortless skills, if she tried her absolute hardest. Although she was more interested in playing with her toys or watching the colorful monsters that were counting all the way up to twelve in a rhythmic pattern. If she didn't know what they were saying, Cat was sure her sister would help her figure it out, if she didn't just tell her all about it later.