One By One

Chapter 5

As i pull myself out of bed, i can only think of the blood. I slip on some descent clothes but i can't manage to do one of the buttons on my overalls. I don't know how the dead girl could fit into these blue vans, and all of these clothes in fact.

I start to make breakfast but felix rushes into the room. He doesn't run, but his face says other wise. I just sit and stare. He fling open the door to the bathroom. 'What?' i say feeling a bit concerned.He rushes towards the front door. 'It's Joe.' Joe Dylan was his play mate in pre-school. I never got to meet him in person. 'He is being set to the 'Far Lands'.' A place no one speaks of, a place made for the cruel, and the wicked.

We reach the Lords house and flip open the door. His sandy blonde hair covers on of his eyes as he looks at his toes, head held down while his wrists are tided together. I can just see one of his eyes, a scarlet blue. His gaze flashes across the sky. 'Why is he here?' Felix, the nephew of the Lord, says.

'We found him committing a crime. He was part of the maniacs that burnt that place down.' This can't be possible, what the Lord is saying. The Cabal said, last night, that the Lord burnt down our base. He and his Junta will be taken down eventually, that is the reason, 24 years back, that people created this group. 

They take there power by force, and that is not what i want to become, one of them. But One By One, everyone in this line of people take action one day. 'Thats not possib-' The Lord gives him a glare. He gulps. 'Fair enough.' Felix stands aside and the guards take him through the door. To his destiny. To the 'Far Lands'.

'What was that about?' I say as Felix walks faster and faster for ever street we walk past. 'Where are we going?' I grab my hat as it nearly falls off. 'Felix,' I grab him and turn him around. 'Answer me.' He stares into my eyes and takes a breath in and out. 'He would have done it... Not matter what i did...' He stops.

'Felix,' I say turner and harder. 'What was that? All of that?' Felix starts to mumble off again. I don't want to smack him, i don't want to hurt him, so i don't. After a while of waiting i start to make out what he was saying. It was words like 'Every man for himself' and things like 'We will all die'. He starts to walk away when he stops and turns around. 'Stacey. Go home, and get in bed.' And he turns the corner, but when i go after him, a blind man could even miss body on the floor. It was Benjamin. The man i tried to save yesterday at the meeting.