I tried to scream and cry but the wind that Jasper had conjured pressed in on me, to tight to allow my jaw to move or my lungs to expand far.
"How may I help you?" I heard Jasper's wheezy voice. I could see three bodies inter the room, the top of the bed was cutting off my view, so their faces were out of my line of sight. Tears flowed down my face before swirling silently around me, caught up in the mini-whirlwind that had now became my prison.
"You know what we want old man." One of the men growled. I heard Jasper laugh.
"I am talented in many ways gentlemen, but I am not a mind reader." Jasper said, keeping his head and speaking calmly to the men I knew would kill him if he allowed them. I saw a man from the group move aggressively toward him and I started to shake, more tears were ripped from my face and they scraped my skin as the air forced me down, swirling around me, making me look like I were in a cage of diamonds. The man had his arms behind his back and I saw a silver glint, he was cradling a knife behind his back. Jasper sighed.
"Emmanuel? You really expect to catch me off guard with a poorly concealed knife? I thought you were taught better." Jasper said. I was surprised that he had noticed the knife behind Emmanuel's back. I smiled for my old odd teacher.
"I did not expect to, no, but I had hoped to torture you into submission. I was taught better, weren't I? You ought to know, you were my teacher." Emmanuel sneered.
"Torture me? And in what way would you do that? You know as well as I that you could not physically hurt me." Jasper said. Emmanuel sneered.
"Patrick? Sean? Why don't you retrieve Jasper's little friend from under the bed?" Patrick and Sean both made to drag me out from under the bed and my pulse began to race, my heart pounding like a snare drum in my chest.
"Touch her and you die." Jasper whispered calmly.
"Sean?" Emmanuel asked. Sean's head snapped up. "Will you restrain our friend here?" Sean nodded.
"And you expect me to not fight?" Jasper hissed, his voice sounded like steam, he crouched and I could swear he shot me a wink.
"We look forward to it." Emmanuel roared. The wind suddenly dissipated and I inched closer towards the action.
