The Fall

Chapter 2 - The Fall

The Fall Chapter 2

We're stuck in the middle of the woods going nowhere - or he knows where we will going and he doesn't even bother to tell me. It's been hours since we've been walking and I don't even know where we are or where we will go.

I can't manage to ask him not because it will look like I'm ranting about something. But because the people we left behind are suffering, dying and I can't do anything just to save them. The other side of me wanting to go back but the other side saying don't.

"Kiddo," He stop walking so I also stop, ignoring the word he called me. "Rest here," He said.

"What?" I held his arm and look at him. "You're leaving me here?" I look at my surrounding and I can tell that it's not safe in here. "Alone?" My whole body trembles in the thought of it.

He removes my hands in his arm. "What? You want to come with me? I'm going to pee, kiddo." He smirks and I took a step backward. If he's scaring the hell out of me, well, it's working. I'm freaking out.

Is he really a trusted huntsman? But my father trusted him a lot, right? I said in myself.

He pats my head and shakes my dishevelled hair. "I guess I have no humour in me." He murmured in himself.

"What..." Is he serious or what? What is he saying?

His expression is come back to serious. "It's safe here. I used this place many times. You're dead tired, kiddo." He enters in a dark cave bravely and I follow him inside but it's so dark I can barely see anything. We manage to reach the end of the cave when finally he lit a torch.

"Why didn't you-" He cut me off.

"It is to keep anyone for finding us. Everything in this cave is already in my brain. All you have to do is to follow me." He said as if he knows what I'm asking. He sits comfortably in the cold ground. He looks at me and said, "You like to stand all night?"

I clear my throat and sits in the corner opposite to him. After so much thought I lay in the cold ground to give my body a prize which is to rest. I tried to sleep but there are so many thoughts that came in my mind, the 'what ifs', the consequences that might happen if ever I didn't choose this path. I tried to think what led me to this, to have the courage to left every one.

"You're a kid, you know?" He said.

I frowned by what he said. "What?" I sat up and looked at him when he is already looking at me.

"Why are you crying then?"

I blink, a few times. Thinking if I should answer his question or not, If it is worth of answering or not. I don't even know that I am crying while I'm lying down. I avoided his gaze and sweep the tears that came from the sadness I feeling. Sadness...

"Do you regret this?"

Yes, I regret all of it. I wanted to go back. I said to myself.

"So you wanted to die from the start why not giving me the opportunity to do so?" He said giving me chills inside my body.

I slowly look at him and he's expressionless. "I... I don't understand what you are talking about, huntsman."

He smiles, more like mocking me, I guess. "You need to trust the old man. That's all he needs." He then becomes serious all of a sudden.

"I trust him. I trust my father."

"Then why are you crying like a child? He only wants one thing," He stares deeply in my eyes and I saw sadness in his. "He wants you safe and sound and he trusts me on that. You understand kiddo? " He stands up and starts walking away.