Poison

Poison part 6 (Final)

FIFTY SIX

“What you want,

Could just be,

Right under your nose

Where you can’t see.

It was Ell’s voice, strangely enough. Avrie turned to tell her to stop singing that song…. But she wasn’t there…

Avrie was in a forest, but it was dark. She began to panic, she needed to get to the spade’s house. The cure was being given out but there were still infected around. It wasn’t safe. And she knew Slade would be worried. She had to get back. But as she turned to walk away, her legs gave out and she fell, and didn’t have the strength to get back up.

She could hear Ell laughing. She tried to shout out, to ask her where she was, but nothing would come out. No noise at all.

Forwards backwards,

And side to side,

Where you should be going,

You will leave behind.

Avrie got up onto her knees to turn around again. She tried to scream, but still, no good. Suddenly, an infected walked out into the open, leering at her. She tried to get away and cry for help. Where was Slade? He always came for her when she was in trouble. She tried to use her heart to call out to him again, then remembered she didn’t have a heart anymore…

The demon started at her with its cold eyes, and crawling skin and laughed. It was Ell’s voice.

“You can’t defeat us, little outsider.” It hissed with Ell’s voice. “You’re powerless without your heart.”

Avrie clenched her fists. “So what?” she thought; “We have the cure!”

The demon could apparently read minds or something because it answered. “N you don’t. The cure is still hidden from you. You can’t stop us now.”

“What are you talking about?” she tried to yell. It was lying to her. It had to be lying. The demon howled with laugher. Then dove for the kill.

Avrie awoke in a cold sweat and shaking. She tried to swallow but her mouth was too dry. This happened often, like with the hellhounds… when she was really stressed over something she could have nightmares about it for weeks on end. And this stress didn’t seem to be going anywhere soon. It was the anxiety that had given her the dream… it wasn’t real. She sighed and rolled over, panting into her pillow and trying to cool off. She had to calm down. What time was it?

It took her a minute to remember she was in Telenary again, and that seemed to calm her down instantly. She looked about the room to see Ell and Fiira were still fast asleep. It clearly wasn’t time to get up yet. So she lied down, listening to Ell snoring and stared at the wall. Would things work out? Would they catch Vancaara? What would they accomplish today? Avrie had felt that by bringing back the cure, things would instantly get better. But it felt as if nothing had changed.

Just Avrie was closing her eyes to go back to sleep, the bedroom door opened. She rolled over curiously to see who it was.

Slade stood in the doorway, with a worried, almost angry expression on his face. The hall was lit so it filled the room with a dim light which was disturbing Fiira and Ell in their sleep.

“Slade?” Avrie questioned.

“Sorry Av.” He sighed. “But we have to get up. And fast.”

“Why?” Fiira yawned, sitting up. “What’s wrong?”

“It’s the counsel.” Slade grumbled. “They want us all in the court room in ten minutes.” He turned around and closed the door.