What Lies Between ✔

Sodalitas

13

"Sounds like quite the night," Zuri muttered.

It was clear she didn't believe a word I had just told all of them.

Perhaps Ben was right for once, telling me to keep our little adventure to ourselves. But of course I felt the ones housing us should know that one of their guests was a cross breed between the divine and the wicked. We had to be honest with them in order to gain trust, I said to myself. It seemed as if my tactic was having the opposite effect I had wanted.

They all thought Ben and I were psycho, demonic, pathological liars now. I could argue the psychotic and pathological lying part, but after Sema's discouraging words to me on the other path I may choose, I could not confidently deny the demonic part.

Back in the Realm of Light, I was about to ask her what the other path would be and why I would be lost if I were to choose it, but she jolted after she had spoken and began backing away from me. "I have said too much on what Fate has planned." She covered her mouth as if to halt any other secret that might slip from it.

"But Sema, I do not -"

"Kairos, it is best if you and Benjamin find your way back to The Living Realm now." Then her form twisted as if she was a golden cyclone and she was just gone, leaving me with barely any answers and a thousand more questions than I'd started off with.

I had been dismissed.

A grumpy Ben and I joined hands so that I could drain his energy so his soul would be forced to return back to his body. "You know, you didn't have to be like that, Ben."

"Anyone who smiles that much is hiding something."

I followed him down his spiritual thread, plopping awkwardly onto the floor when I reached his then occupied vessel. It was a good thing I was purely spirit or I would have woken the whole house.

As I waited for Ben to fully re-unite with his physical body, which took approximately an hour more than the last time had, I worked on sucking up energy far away from him so that I could be in a fully solidified human form when the others awoke. That proved to be a chore, my body defiantly taking energy from wherever it pleased. I would have to work on that too.

Ben and I discussed the events that had just occurred in the Realm of Light for the rest of the night until dawn. I explained to him what Sema had told me about his gift for astral projection. Ben, always difficult,argued that it was purely a science fictional phenomenon with no plausible proof of its actual existence, completely ignoring my pointing out that he himself was walking proof of it. Then he went onto say how whatever the ability he had was, it was not a gift as the Goddess had put it.

The others all eventually stumbled from their sleeping places and we ended up once more in a circle around the glass coffee table. I described everything that had happened in detail despite Ben's constant nudges that I supposed were to be nonchalant signals to hush up. I ignored him of course.

"And you didn't think to take me with you!" Adrian lifted his hand to his heart, looking wounded.

"Why would we do that?" Ben mumbled gruffly.

"We just didn't want to trouble you, and I was so worried and all that I really wasn't thinking clearly at the time to tell any of you," I said loudly, trying to cover up Ben's mumbling. Honestly, did he even know how to be decent towards other people? His distrust was seriously wearing on my already frazzled nerves.

"Or you didn't come tell any of us because you made all this shit up," Zuri offered coldly.

"Zuri! Can you stop being so mean?" Kanoa snapped at her.