The Nest

EIGHT

I wake up confused as hell, head pounding like an elephant just sat on me, questions needing to be answered like how the hell and where the hell and who the hell am I???

Okay I can figure this out... I am Lana, I am in a hut on a bed with fluffy possum skin soft around my face... oh god Sevs room, how the hell did I end up here?

As if to answer my question Seven walks in looking in more shape than I am except for dark bags under his eyes "morning sunshine, you are meeting Blake for your next job in half an hour, to make it easier when this ray of sunshine lands here", he points to a wooden board under his north facing window that is like a mini sundial.

" what happened??", I ask "a lot", he smirked, oh no... my face very shocked"no not like that, you were just very intoxicated" he laughs.

"My head hurts I just want to curl in a ball and die", he comes over to me with a smirk and strokes my face when in walks the girl I saw here yesterday, the hot looking one who I think he works with. She scans me up and down "ametures", she huffs, well excuse me but that is not what you say, Jee everyone has their own limits what a bitch.

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I have dragged myself over to my car with only a coat rapped around me luckily Seven retrieved that this morning, in my hand my wet dirty clothes and my small bag in the other.

I get to my car and Jim greets me with wagging and of his tail and lots of kisses" good morning to you too boy", I groan. I throw on a pair of shorts and padded singlet, no need for a bra today I think, I grab a sacred almost stale roll out of my pack and scoff it down then chuck on my sneakers to head to main square of the village.

There I am greeted by a tall and lanky guy who could be 19 he has mousy brown hair in a bun with a couple of dreads in it and beads, he also just has a pair of long pants on and dark skinned, on his left arm he had a padded sheath type thing and in his right hand a bow. " you must be Jay, I'm Blake don't know if you've heard of me but I make sell and use bow and arrows", "oh um yeah...hi", I try to speak but my head is still pounding away," it's for s good cause", he winks and I follow him off down a small track.

We get to a small shed filled with archery gear and behind it is a small clearing type field with targets. " tell me what do you know about archery my lady?", he says drawing back mhis bow and firing an arrow hitting not quite centre but close on the 150meter mark.

"Well actually I have done a lot and am a an expe-",he cuts me off "actually I don't really care, basically I am hear to teach and you listen, most likely you will fail but hey no harm in trying right", he laughs a way to himself.
Why do I feel like every one hates me, he gives me a quick run down on what to do even though I tried explaining that I know how to do this, then he leaves for some other errand and I have to practice for a few hours.

So basically archery here is one of the starting basses to get into hunting for the village which i am kind of into.

I get into it starting with 10meters then 20, 30,40,50... and by 50 I skip to 100meters as a random shot and get it smack in the middle, I wipe the sweat off my face and have a sit down under a tree. When I get up I line myself up for a 200meter shot holding the bow feeling the sun beat down on me, my muscles tense and I let the arrow fly, it twirls through the field and hits just the edge of the bullseye.

I stare blankly at it for a good 30 seconds then i hear a laugh and out of the bushes walks a moderately tall dark haired guy this one though has a shirt on, damnit!
He had a quiver around his waist and a bow in his hand and two hares in the other, he walks up and plucks the arrow out of the target with force then taps the end of it with a giggle like he is sharing a joke with himself.

"And you my darling are the new...Jay? Was it?", he queries "uh yeah... I me...that's me", I stutter. "Yeah I remember seeing you last night...I don't think you remember me though", he glances back at the arrow as I blush slightly. "Well I have the say your shooting is beyond amazing and I would hope to see you join my team one day, anyways Jay, hope to see those jewels you promised to show me last night, enjoy the rest of your day", he says looking me up and down one more time with a wink he hands me my arrow back and heads back into the forest.

Okay now that was weird...and what the hell did I tell him about those forgotten jewels, I mean not forgotten but they should be and I should throw them into the river and....and my sister...uhhhhghhh to many thoughts not enough time I need to get to her I need...I fall to my knees and weep softly.

My sister was taken away by the Devainians the people who took over our country and swapped our teachers with more Devs I mean I say it like they are aliens but they are only human too wanting our country to themselves... wanting it all, but the night we stole the Jewels was the night I lost her and I haven't told anyone but it is in my mind that one day I am going to save her, I still have hope that she is alive.

Oh how I miss Haylee my 13 year old little sister the best one you could ever ask for, how much courage she had, the Devainians killed all her animals except we managed to save Jimmy. Oh how she wanted her revenge on them, we should have just kept quiet....

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I run home as soon as the sun hits 3 and I don't even need to tell Blake because he never even came back, I do t bother saying hi to Sev because I know he will be with that girl, the only one I catch up with is the main square maneger for my daily token.

I head straight back to my car after gathering Jimmy boy off the sheep farm from his training, and curl up craddeling the chest to my chest, I should right that down. So I grab out my journal and start jotting down a poem of rimes until my journal is too soaked of tears to keep writting.

I might just go for a walk.

Thoughts??

Hana you get a feature in this hehe❤️