The Secrets of Death

chapter 15 - i know

Chapter fifth-teen.

Swing, step, lung, duck, roll, jump, run.

Swing, step, lung, duck, roll, jump, run.

Swing, step, lung, duck, roll, jump, run.

One out of six weeks I’ve completed. I can’t move my arms properly and my legs are on fire with pain and the overwhelming need to collapse onto my cloudy bed. I had grass in my hair and muck in my eyes. Opened cuts bleed freely on my arms and legs. Blisters formed on the meaty palm of my hand threatening to bust. It was cold and dark. This is what he wanted. He wanted me to tune in to my surrounding. He wanted me to learn the hard way; the fast way.

Well fuck him!

Swing, step, lung, duck, roll, jump, run. And this time I didn’t stop running. My boots hitting the ground pounded loudly, most likely alerting him to my escape, but I didn’t care. My breath hitched with the impact of a hard and fast moving object. The ground came rushing up to me as my back slammed down against it. I felt all his weight on top of me and struggled to breath. So now, not only was I winded but no air was making its way into my lungs, great! Ares chuckled in my ear, “Not bad for a newbie, but next time be quitter.”

“Get off of me!” I screeched.

“Why, I’m quite comfortable.” Slowly but surely he wrapped his arms around me and pulled me against his chest, rolling around so I was on top of him. For a second I forgot. I forgot who he was and what he had done. I couldn’t help it, seriously, I have no idea where it came from; this feeling. It was so sudden, so quick to appear and so quick to vanish I don’t know what to make of it. I felt butterflies in my stomach and fire where he was touching me. And for a fraction of a second I thought I saw something in his eyes, something kind, gentle. For one second I let myself think that he may not be a monster. Maybe he was just lost. After all, his father made him become the god of war, it’s not his fault.

Ever herd of changing your mind?’   

Could he?

Could he change?

I looked deep into those bloodthirsty eyes, and what I saw was a boy. A lost boy, one who thought his only purpose in life was to kill. And I was going to change that. I was going to change my view on him and safe him.

“I think you’ve earned some information” he said letting go of me. I kicked my left leg up and flung myself over to lie on my back beside him.

“And what might that be?” I said “last time you said that all I got was that you are going to be one of the three fates. I already knew that!” I laughed for the first time around him. New start, remember.

Yeah but new starts just don’t happen overnight dumbass.