Defying Death

Chapter 13

Hayat slows down and whispers down to me "he doesn't talk much until it's absolutely necessary, we don't know his name and have never seen his face" I whistled that's some mysterious stuff.

She snorted. "We are going to take you to the medicine lady, kay?" now that I knew she wasn't from here I could hear the slight accent. I nodded, I sure hoped my foot didn't get infected and the old woman that said that the medicinals could cure Beatha. Hayat picked up her face and I fell back to walk next to Flav who had a dreamy look on his face, he was dawdling quite a bit and I was worried that we would get lost. I looked over at him and wondered how hard he got hit.

We arrived at a tree and I tilted my head were we here? The boss knocked his knuckles against the tree trunk in a numerical pattern. Then a crackling sound came and woman in a dark purple cloak dropped down from a tree. What was up with people wearing cloaks, now I wanted one. The woman immediately got up from her crouch and her hood fell back revealing shocking silvery white hair. She put her head up so that her hair fell back in layers to her chest. Her skin was snow white and her eyes were glass-like. I had heard about people like her, it was a genetic mutation called Albinism. She hissed and quickly covered her head with a cloak and put a bandana over her nose and mouth. "What do you want baby brother" she snapped. They were related and he was the baby one, interesting so maybe only they got to wear cloaks, I'd have to ask. He gestured to my foot and she clicked a gloved finger. Hayat instantly scurried over bowing to the boss and putting her full intention to the mystical lady in front of her.

She said a few names of plants I presume that I didn't know the names of. Hayat dashed off and the lady beckoned me with on dainty gloved finger. I limped forward and she motioned me to follow her. She pulled aside a drape on the tree that was well disguised so that I hadn't noticed it before. I entered and was surprised to see that it was pretty cozy it was pretty small but I didn't have it in my head that it would be spacious. She gestured for me to sit on a blanket that was strewn over the floor and puffed up so that it was comfy. I steady myself and clench my jaw. After I put my uninjured leg underneath me and the other splayed out I rest my walking cane on the inside wall of the tree. I look around and in the little nooks and crannies and even little holes in the ground, there are hundreds of different herbs, berries, powders, and liquids.

It is quite dark as she veils the entrance. She looks back at me and takes the hood off her displaying her pale melanin-less face. Her cheekbones are high and she has a sharp chin. Her hair pooled on her shoulders and was a startling metallic pure white color. She smiled at me and showed that even her teeth were pearly white. Her eyes were interesting not just one color, an interesting mix of blue, grey, violet but not like a pattern either it was just one color but the color itself changed with the angle...

"Done," she said and I furrowed my eyebrows done? She laughed and said "your ankle should heal in a few days are there any more places that you have any pain? I put some yarrow on that scrape on your arm" I hadn't even noticed she started, rather good as I didn't feel any pain but as I looked at my ankle freshly bandaged, numb and a little stick to support it I knew that it would have been painful. I shook my head to answer her question.

She smiled at me and asked, "what's your name?" I stuttered shocked what was she a witch?, "Chaya" I said. Her eyes twinkled with amusement, "I'm Haven, I'm also the big sister of the boss". She said boss mockingly and extended her hand that was near transparent you could see the veins. I took it and her hand was cool and soft but slightly calloused, hands of a healer. My hands were probably quite the opposite sweaty, clammy, rough and dirty, the hands of a sewer cleaner.

"Chaya come out, I brought Chaya so that you could heal her not to gossip" My eyebrows rose up that was the longest sentence that I had heard him say he sure was a lot more talkative with his sister. "Sure baby bro, we're coming," she said trying to ruffle him the wrong way. She nodded at me and pulled up her hood and bandana and opened the cover and I was momentarily blinded by the light.

The last chapter had so little reads. Did all of the few of you died or something?