The Disappearing Fields

Twenty-seven

†Alex†

The snow crunches underneath my paws.  It's gotten brittle and icy.  Snowflakes no longer cascade down from the sky,  instead it pelts, water ice mixtures that freezes on everything it lands.  Including my fur.

Something needs to be done soon about Irenaeus.  But before that,  I gotta relay what I've learned. I speed up and race through the snow. It's time like these when i wish i could become something other than a feline. No matter what i shift into, I have trouble running through snow. But that's how life works, sometimes you got to slip and slide to make it through the day.

At least that's what my Dad always said. That was the last thing he told me before i left home. Do what you gotta do, it doesn't matter how, because at the end of the day all that matters is that you tried.

I wonder how things are going back home? How do they feel with their youngest out of the house, maybe to never return? Are they worried? I haven't checked in on them in two years. Do they think I managed to escape Garlic Face or did he tell them otherwise? Do they even want me to come home after all the trouble i caused them? Probably not. 

Maybe i'll go back to Ziek's and Captain Nerd's pack. Yet, somehow, i find the idea of living with a bunch of  wolves revolting. I suppose i could just stay with him, but i don't think he'll be too happy to find out i let his sister get in all sorts of trouble. But it's not as if Haven listens to me. Hell, she doesn't listen to Tyler either.

Wherever i end up, won't matter until we can get rid of all these threats facing this town, after all, this is my home.

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I shift back in the living room and toss on the clothes i brought back. I rush up the stairs and find Haven just glaring at an unconscious Ziek. He has more color to him.  "You haven't tried healing him, have you?"

She tosses a glance my way before mumbling "I don't know how. Kaz said it would come to me but it's not. Nothing is." Her voice cracks, and that's all i need to know she's about to cry.  "Is he gonna die?"

The two years I've known Haven, i never seen her cry. She isn't a crier. If she's sad she distracts herself. If she's in pain she'll deal with it. Tears are never her solution. I can chalk it up to the situation. The feeling when you know your friend's life is in danger and there's nothing you can do. You'd walk to the moon and back if you could, but you can't.

"I hope not.  I mean,  he still has a mate out there somewhere. He can't just up and die on her. " I hope. "Besides. It may be for the best that you can't heal him. "

She sniffs up her tears before responding."Why would that be good? I kinda thought the whole point was to help him get better faster. "

"Yeah but Essence contaminate the human body. Ever wonder why Soles and Fades have wings? "

"I had assumed it was some sort of adaptation. "

"They live on the other side of the barrier,  the same side where Essence originates.  They were exposes to it long before it was exposed to the visible world. Naturally it effected the people. But each type of Essence effects you differently. Let's say both a Fade and a Sole have an earthy essence. the Fades earth would be utilized differently and grants different abilities than the Sole's would."

"You seem very knowledgable about the hidden world Alex. "

I shrug my shoulders.  "I use to live their with my parents. But I left three years ago when I got myself into some trouble. "