Caidoz

Chapter 29

   I was thrown into my eyes, if such a puzzling thing could be said. I found my attention caught by a large man whom looked oddly familiar. What was I doing? I felt ragged breathing underneath me and saw Procyon there looking at me. My power of sensing emotions had finially returned. I felt confusion, this was aplenty. There was shock as well. However, there was one that almost made me exclaim in bewilderment. Fear, and it radiated off the boy under me. "What's going on in her-" The man's brown eyes grew wide at seeing me. His blond eyebrows raised in surprise. "Oh, am I interrupting something?"

"Oh hi! What's going on right now, I'm afraid that I don't know to tell you, good sir." I said. Then I shook my head slightly. That wasn't what I had been trying to say. Procyon's face grew red over the bridge of his nose as blinked at the giant man. He tried to get up. A strange emotion seemed to brush by. It was one I rarely felt and couldn't recall the name of. I didn't help Procyon to get up and continued to be on top of him in his struggle. He managed to prop himself up on his elbows, his face pure crimson and I could feel his fear as he shook.

"But, you're dead!" The large man exclaimed.
"I am? Well then, that certainly explains everything that went odd a while ago, this dead bussiness." Again, my head felt fuzzy and confused. My insides then felt like someone had turned them iniside out and was being squeezed and I groaned slightly.
"Don't listen to him! You survived, remember? You just had a CC!" Procyon said. I looked down on him. A CC?  My stomach then felt as if a coyote was inside, howling in fury. "Ahhh!...wait!" It then all came back to me. I remembered. I had fallen into a CC and spoke to the moon. My stomach was being torn around inside me as though a spear had been stabbed into my organs over and over in an agonizing process.. "How long, Procyon?!" I exclaimed. He was silent. He did not know that in the past, Caidozians fought over lands in war until they fell into a CC. Then, the first Caidozian to reawaken would slaughter the others while they were vulnerable. Of course, that meant a win.  

But until my mother had started the program of the R.E.S.T, we had to wake up without the useful machine. A Caidozian could be in a CC for a month and when they'd awake, they died just about instantly. This was due to starvation and dehydration. While in the CC, they did not have to worry, but they were fair game to natural causes as soon as they were awoken. "How long, Procyon?!"I asked again, worriedly.
"About two days." He finally replied.
   Two days?! No wonder I am feeling this way! I need to eat and drink immediately! "It's not good for the old to eat gold." I said.
   The stares increased.
   What? That's not what I meant... Let me try that again. "Time for some grub or else we are in the pub!"
   Procyon frowned. "What's wrong Ali, are you feeling okay?" He asked.
   No, I'm not!  I could have screamed, but they would have thought me crazier. My mouth just didn't want to form the words as I said them. At this rate, I'll never get the message across!  I was going to actually die of starvation. I tried to push myself off Procyon, but he grabbed my arm and pulled me closer, examining me.
"Strange cake in a lake." I said.
"Quiet." He said.
   Way to be blunt, Procyon! The day you learn some manners...
   He then oddly stroked my long brown hair, soothingly. "You're speaking utter nonsense."
   Every time my hair was stroked, I always would fall into a relaxed trance-like state, mind becoming cleared, and, though he didn't know it, it helped tremendously to feel his fingers stroking the thick strands. Then, I remembered what he previously said.
   I thought that to be obvious! 
   He pulled me closer suddenly and I felt the fear from him again. It made me slightly sad. Was he scared of me? I wondered. He looked at my eyes and I was again fascinated by the strange combination of his blue ones with a green rim. It helped calm my confusing thoughts.
   I heard him breathe a sigh of relief and say, "It's not there."
   Was he referring to the Crab? I suppose he knew about it now, for it had came through at the event. He then looked all around my face and his frown increased. What did he see?  Sharply, he touched his own stomach with his hand and then shoved me off of him harshly.