Challenging Directions - Book 1 (Completed)

Chapter 16 - Healing

Enya Followed Nandin who was carrying Lani in his arms to the area where Sir Atticus and his team was being held. Upon their arrival Moss and Kai started yelling at them to release Ercan. They were worried for their teammate. Louis did not take his eyes off of the two female captains. Hidden in the shadows was Mia and Arrio watching the scene unfold. She could not look away from the side of her once teammates covered in blood. She could not believe Riac continued abused Sir Atticus after Lani and Enya had left.

When they entered the room Lani's face shows her disgust at the acts he had committed. Instead of looking away, Sir Atticus boldly look him in the eyes. Riac stared back, showing no guilt at all. Ignoring the power struggle between them, Lani walked to him. Her eyes started glowing a light, airy, blue color. By this time all eyes were on Lani, and her hands as she gently touched Sir Atticus' face.

His skin glew where he was injured, you could even see the light shining through his clothes. His whole body was covered in bruises, cuts and scars. One by one she was fixing them. Old and new, she was fixing them. Feeling light headed, Lani took a step back and almost passed out. If Nandin did not catch her when he did, she would have hit her head and knocked out, for no one was in the distance it took to catch her. No one without chains that is.

"I apologize for my weakness, when I regain my full strength, I will heal your teammates." Lani whispered, not having enough strength to speak right.

"Thank you..." Was all he was able to say, they were all too shocked to say anything.

All except Enya, who was off next to Moss and Kai grinning. "My sister is not lying, she will heal you all. I know it must confuse you, but you guys are innocent, for the most part. We let our anger get in the way during interrogations. And well, we are enemies after all." She shrugged her shoulders. "Ercan is in the Hospital Wing, and is being taken care of as we speak." When they looked back to where the boy was hanging he was gone. "Riac had no right to break his leg like that. He also had no right to continue after we left." She turned to glare at him. "Believe me when I say he will be punished. Any other concerns?" She asked the men tied up.

"Yes, where is Ashe?" Moss asked looking up at her. "So long as you are speaking honestly, I want to know. You have yet to mention him, and I am worried."

"He is our guest, not as high class as our Little Bird, but he gets his own escort." Enya stated plainly, not want to talk to him, or about that particular subject. "Anything else?"

"Why are you being nice now?" Kai asked.

"We are in a good mood." Lani spoke, finally regaining some strength. "Don't worry, Rai and Riac will no longer be on 'Guard' duty." She chuckled at her own joke. "I must go check on Ercan, and whip up some elixirs for you boys. Nandin, will you please escort me?" He nodded and with that they left.

"What kind of elixirs?" Sir Atticus asked when she left the room. He hated the idea of being nice to them, but as long as they were helping he would find a way to turn it against them.

"Probably something for the pain, I don't really pay attention to that stuff." Enya responded looking bored.

"What about Mia? How did you trick her into joining you!" Louis finally lost his nerve and tried to attack. He was quickly stopped by Riac.

"Riac, enough." She barked at him, as he twisted Louis' arm. "We just offered the Little Bird the world, and she took it."

"She never would have betrayed me like that!" He yelled at her.

"And here she thought you would be understanding..." Enya smirked. "Guess this means you were wrong." Enya turned to the wall Mia and Arrio was hiding behind.

The two slowly emerged from behind the crack in the wall. They both looked like two guilty kids who had just been found with their hands in the cookie jar.

"Sorry, we didn't mean to spy, Mia just got curious and wanted to check on Louis. I didn't think it would be that bad." Arrio spoke up and stepped in front of Mia as if to shield her from Enya's anger.

"Don't worry, I am not mad. I am a little disappointed, but not mad." Enya, walked up to them and patted their heads'. "I am sorry if you saw something you didn't want to." She whispered to Mia, who looked like she wanted to cry.

"I am fine." She spoke with a wavering voice, after she regained her composure, Mia turned to Louis. "I am sorry you don't understand, maybe one day you will." Was all she could muster before turning and running out the door.

"Arrio, go with her." Enya nodded at him, and he soon vanished. "Anything else?" She turned back to the four men.

"When can we see Ercan?" Kai spoke up again, his face unable to mask his worry.

"When Lani says he is able to." Enya said, a hint of regret on her face. "I really am sorry about that, Ercan seems like a good guy." She turns away and sighs. "Soon Corin, George, Rai, and Arrio will take you to your separate rooms. There will be no contact between rooms, or people. You will be monitored by one of these four men, Nandin will be with Ercan, do not worry, he has no anger issues." She tried to lighten the mood. "For now, you guys are not useful to us. If you were not hunting us, we would let you go... Oh well, you guys will be with us for sometime. You can choose to join us, like Mia, or not. It is up to you." Enya sent a message for Corin and George to arrive and watch them. "Riac, go to the pit and wait for me there, if you are not there when I arrive... Well, I will let Lani decide." After she had finished Riac left in a hurry, while she waited for the boys to arrive.