WORK IN PROGRESS River ~Chronicle Of The Spirits

4.

'Run!'
I am running so fast that I could see my surroundings just as a blur of a lot of green and black.
I guess I am in the woods.

With a look ahead at the horizon I can tell it's morning, because of the now reddish sun which is about to rise.
I can't help but stare at the red sky in admiration.
It looks stunning! I can't remember the last time I had seen something beautiful like this.

When I hear a lot of rustling,which is getting closer, I notice that I stopped running, when I looked at the sky.

"Crap!" I continue sprinting in the woods with the raising feeling of panic in my chest.
It feels as if a string around my lunge is getting tightened. Therefore it's getting harder for me to breathe with every step I take.
I arrive breathlessly at a river and stop.
It's silent.
No more rustling.
'Did I outpace the chaser?'
"But..."
Even the birds, which had been chirping all the time are not making a noise anymore.
The only thing I can hear is the rushing of the water behind me.
'Something is wrong...'

Crack

I frown.
I turn around fast.
Well... A bit too fast.
I slip on something and fall in the deep black and cold water of the river.
Surrounded by darkness I feel how the water replaces the oxygen in my lungs.
Before I lost my consciousness I let out a last scream filled with water...

"NOO!"
I wake up panting.
My face wet from the sweat.

My view a blur, I was about to stand up but I notice a hand resting on my shoulder stopping me.

"Hey...You should rest. The doctor said you have a fever."
"Who are you? And where am I?" I manage to ask. Surprisingly without hesitating nor any sign of fear or tiredness but with seriousness.
I turn to my left to see a... guy, who is completely covered in black clothes.
Comfy looking pants, a shirt and a mask containing of fabric, which covers his head completely. Just revealing his brown eyebrows and honey brown eyes, which are looking at me.

'He looks like a Ninja...' I thought.

"You can call me Logan. The only thing you have to know right now is that you are in good and safe hands."-
" What happened? The last thing I remember is laying in my bed at home...and now I am in...uh."

I look around to see the room I have been sleeping in. I am sitting on a low bed with a white blanket and pillow. The walls are of chestnut brown woods, so are the floor and the really deep and small table next to the guy on my left. The really plain room has a wall sized window with a white see-through curtain behind Logan. On my right I face a wall of bamboo. In front of me is a wall of white paper...or rather a sliding door. Next to it hangs a vertical poster with Japanese signs on them.
I could say this room or maybe the whole house is built and decorated Asian style.

"You will find out later... I promise, just do as I say, please. You are needed to be on alert and strengthened later because someone of high authority is coming to talk to you."
"Fine."
He is about to push me down gently with his hand, when I ask him: "Why are you here? I mean... were you sitting here the whole time?"
Before answering he chuckles a bit.
"No, I was not. You know... I was kind of worried because you began to scream. A scream full of fear as if someone is about to kill you or something like that. So I hurried to your room to make sure you are okay. Since I found you yesterday night, my duty is to take care of you. But whatever. You need to sleep."

"...o-kay" I say slowly, since I am still confused with his answer and everything else.
'I screamed? That never happened to me. Even when I had a nightmare. But this one felt so real... And he 'found' me? What does this mean? The heck?!'

With pushing me gently under the covers again and saying "sleep well", Logan left the room and I fall in a dreamless sleep.