Sinistral

Chapter Seventeen

I still feel like if Zack hadn't came, I would have chopped my leg off. I would have lost a part of me, literally but the amount of pain that surged through my leg for the rest of the journey, I might as well had chopped it off as it was bloody useless.

It also nearly got me caught. Got caught by what? Well I don't want to reveal anything too soon. Not while you don't even know how I managed to get into the situation apart from having a bad leg. Zack was determined to keep me by his side, to never let me out of his sight again but it had been a mistake. A massive one because I slowed us down. Made us stop too many times.

Our journey wasn't even close to an end yet from that mountain at the time. But as much as Zack not leaving me behind, not pursuing ahead was a big mistake. I was glad he was by my side. From then on out I knew I would always see him as one thing. My best friend.

Zack and I had been travelling for a long time. We had stopped quite a few times because I couldn't walk properly. The pain surged through me but I pushed on, with Zack helping me along the way. Zack and I hadn't realised how far the path went between the mountain and the river. The map hadn't helped us in that aspect. Also since neither of us could read the map anymore it made it twice as hard.

"Can we stop again?" I asked Zack but not looking at him, he looked at me and smiled "You don't have to ask every time you know, just stop and rest whenever you want." I managed a half smile looking back at him, we sat down on the kerb of the pavement and I stretched my leg out before giving it a good rub, it was killing me, all this walking hadn't made it any better.

I sighed heavily, we're never going to make it to the river I thought, not if I have a useless limb, I said it out aloud without meaning to "This is useless, how are we ever going to get to the core now."

Zack looked startled he was looking at the pavement as if deep in thought "Cayden, your not slowing us down I promise." He didn't say anything else for a few seconds then went on "So stop thinking that you are," his voice was firm now.

I remembered Zack's temper and thought against saying anything else about my leg, despite the state it was in Zack and I were making good progress, not counting all the times we had stopped of course. In that moment I realised I was starting to sound ungrateful and as if I had forgotten about Zack coming to rescue me just in the nick of time and stop me from doing something awful, if it hadn't been for Zack I would have half a right leg right now.

I rubbed my leg where the stone had left its damage and winced at the pain, Zack was watching me "Ready?" he asked swinging one arm around my shoulders and helping me to my feet "Yeah," I replied even though I wasn't.

We continued to walk, Zack keeping his arm around me helping me take as much weight of my leg as possible. As much as pain tried to take over everything else I thought of the route ahead and I thought of Zack not being here with me and that made me feel better. Knowing Zack was here, no pain was worse now that he was by my side again. I shudder, it suddenly getting cold.

"Change in temperature? Is that a good thing?" I ask Zack eyeing him out the corner of my eye.

"Not sure," he whispered. The pavement didn't feel as hot either.

"Do you think we are getting close?" I ask.

"I would say let me look at the map but I'm afraid that won't help us. We'll have to keep going."

I wondered if it was a good thing about the sudden change in temperature and I wondered whether I should have been grateful for the cold as most of Sinistral was burning hot, I mean boiling hot, I guess it felt nice to shake that feeling of constant heat, I looked at Zack, he looked calm and said "The river wont be to far away from here though," he said this as if he was sure about it and it that wasn't just a guess, I wasn't so sure, but I wanted him to be right, because I needed to rest my leg again soon. The pain was surging through it and there was only so much of it I could ignore without wanting to scream.