The Lost

Meeting

I stand there for a moment paralyzed. What the bloody freaking hell am I supposed to do now? Deciding that staying safe overnight takes priority over finding other possibly dangerous Lost, I begin to walk through the lush forest that makes up the Lost area looking for a big sturdy tree.

After walking for a few minutes while scanning the trees for a sleeping spot and other dangerous creatures, I spot a really huge tree with a canopy that spreads out like it's trying to wrap the surrounding trees in a big comforting hug. I walk towards it and stare up at it. The branches all  merge at one point that seems to make a nest like platform. It looks like a safe place for the night.

But how am I going to get up there? Only the people in Green can really work with plants and things. My dad was from Green but he switched and met my mom. My mom who taught me about how control my emotions. And water. That's it! I can use the weird tree growing thing from the Court House to raise me up since I'm an awful climber. With my plan in mind, I concentrate on imagining roots growing from under my feet and lifting me into the nest of the tree. It takes a minute because I'm not used to using these gifts? Curse? Powers? Whatever they are, I'm used to repressing them.

I open my eyes when I feel myself being raised up off the ground. The platform steadily approaches as I raise into the canopy. I safely reach on of the large branches next to the nest and throw my upper body over it so that I can make the roots disappear without falling. After they are gone I realize I'm just hanging here. Swinging my right leg over so that my butt it facing my destination, I slowly inch down the tree branch towards my new sleeping spot.

Suddenly I slip on a particularly slippery piece of bark and slide the rest of the way down to the nest. I let out a small squeak when I land on something kinda squishy and quickly jump up and off of it. As soon as I gain my footing I'm slammed into one of the branches of the tree. Something sharp is pressed to my throat and arms are wrapped around me  holding me in place. I guess it wasn't a tree branch. I begin to panic, why didn't I keep my knife in my hand? 

"Who are you?" A rough distinctly male voice speaks in my ear and I can feel his breath on my neck and it makes me recoil. But that doesn't help because my neck presses into the blade more and this time it draws blood. I don't answer because I am absolutely terrified. "Answer me!" the man says tightening his old on my waist. 

"M-my name is Sam." I state fighting the urge to wriggle out of his grasp. This man obviously knows what he's doing and it's too dark to see anything anymore, the sun set quickly while I was trying to find this tree. I mentally curse myself for not checking to see if this place was occupied before blindly climbing in. 

"Sam? That's a guys name." He states, I scowl. Everyone says that when they first meet me. "Yeah?" I say irritated "What's that got to do with anything?" I feel him shrug. This guy obviously doesn't seem threatened by me which is good. 

"Let me go already!" I say finally deciding to do something about my situation. He releases me but not before warning me "If you try to fight me, I will kill you." I gulp and nod my head as much as the knife will allow.

He lets go of me and I whip around to face my captor. To say I'm shocked would be an understatement. Standing in front of me is none other than Kane. The Breaker from this morning. Our eyes meet and I glare at him. In some twisted way, this is all his fault, if he wouldn't have broken a Main Rule then I wouldn't have gone anywhere near the barrier and i never would've seen that girl. But then who knows what would've happened to her. 

"Kane?" I ask him even though it's obvious that it's him. Same sharp jaw line, full lips, prominent cheek bones, and deep brown eyes. He looks at me trying to remember how I know him. I can't tell if he finds anything in my face because he turns away and even if he would've continued to stare, he's as closed as a cursed tomb. He begins to pack his sleeping bag and water flask into his bag which I had failed to notice was laid out on the floor of the platform.