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Log 22

With Fade making sure Kris was alright, that left Lux, Asher, and Will to wait for Horus and Spade. When Able has fought against Lux and Asher he managed to take advantage of Lux's previously dislocated shoulder and twist away from him.
"When did you first dislocate it?" Will asked as he popped it back in, again, and started to find something to use for a sling. Lux didn't answer, he was lost for words. Kristin was like his sister and now someone had hurt her and he couldn't help her.
"Hello? Irmão, are you alright?" Will asked as he sat next to Lux. Will put his hand on Lux's other shoulder and tried to get his brother to talk to him. He joked and poked, prodded and asked, but nothing was going to get Lux to look away from the tent where Kris was.
"I see, from what I can tell you and Kris are close aren't you? Know this isn't your fault. He out did all of us."

"All this time we were chasing Malcom when in reality the true villain was right next to us the whole fucking time." Lux looked over to Asher and back to Will. Asher gave a warm smile and sat next to Lux and put his hand on his knee.
When Asher put his hand on Lux's leg, Lux's heart began to flutter. It was only for a moment but it was there and he thought it was the same flutter that happened when Ryan would put his hand on his arm. "Lux, lets go for a walk and clear your mind. We can look for Able also."

"But Ashe-"

"Nope, come on. William will watch for Horus and Spade. Fade has Kris, they will be... speaking of.." Asher stoped his sentence as Fade was helping Kris our of the tent.
With her legs left bare, everyone could see her metal calf on her right leg and the scars littering the rest of her legs. Fade's dress shirt swallowed her, it's sleeves falling to her knees. As she stumbled out like a fawn on new legs, Lux stood and walked straight to her. He pulled her into his chest and hugged her close, his head burying into her hair.
"I'm so sorry." She mumbled, her voice barely a whisper. Lux kept his hands on her arms as he scolded her as a brother might an apologetic sibling,"Kristin, não se culpe. Nós somos aqueles que deveriam estar vendo os sinais. Eu sabia que algo estava errado com ele e não fiz nada. Eu sinto Muito."
She looked up and him and smiled, "Don't apologize you dork. None of us saw the signs. We couldn't have known." She looked around at the concerned faces. For what had just happened to her, Kristin was doing a great job at hiding her pain and fear.
"How did we know you'd go back to this place?" Horus suddenly called out from the trail. His dark suit and white undershirt made him barely visible to the teens. As quickly as Horus showed up, Spade quickly rushed to Kris with a bundle of clothes in hand.
"Oh my dear, come come I'll help you get cleaned up." She put her hand on Kristin's and ushered her into the tent to change. Lux turned to Asher and Will and explained who these people were, then he turned to Horus and explained who they were.
Horus nodded and turned to Fade, who was digging his toe in the dirt. The older man walked up to the distraught boy and took him under his shoulder and walked off to talk about what had happened earlier.
"Asher, about that walk, I'd like to go on that now." Lux turned to Asher, who nodded as they walked down a new path.

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While Spade helped her change, Kristin kept twisting the ring that Fade had given her before this whole mess happened. "When did he give you that?" Spade asked as she fixed Kris' hair.

"When we were setting up camp. He told me to call him Finnigan and gave me this." Kris whispered as she buttoned her shirt. The new clothes that Spade brought her were a slightly more comfortable than the last.
Spade had brought her a pair of black skinny jeans with the ribs in the knees, a deep plum button-up that was tapered to a bell sleeves around her wrists, a black corset that had buckles in the front for added details, and she even brought a new hair pin for Kristin's hair.
"Thank you, Spade. I'm sorry about having you come out here."

"Oh Hun, it's going to be alright. Besides Horus wanted to talk to Finn about what happened to Ryan." Spade pulled a curl from behind Kris' ear to frame her face. Before she asked if she was ok and if she wanted to stay in the tent longer.

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Lux and Asher walked down the path in silence until Lux's legs locked and he stumbled against Asher. "Are you fucking with me? What did I do to deserve this hell!?" Lux swore as Asher helped him to the ground.
Olive hands carefully lifted Lux's black pant leg and saw the joint of his left knee was stuck in the extended position. He blew a small piece of his hair from his eyes as he took out his knife. Slowly he took the point and loosened the joint, and once it was loosened he took the handle end and hit the pins on the inside of his knee. The joint popped as the pins locked and kept the joint at the at the correct tightness.
"I told you, I caused this." Asher monotonously said as he helped Lux stand. Lux, who was dump founded, looked at his legs then back to Asher who was putting his blade back into the sheath on his hip.

"Thank you."

"Don't thank me. I didn't want William on my ass."

"No, thank you for being here. For actually trying to help us. Thank you for being my friend even after I was a dick." Lux blurted as he walked up to Asher and pulled him into a hug.
The boys shared a hug as memories of their childhood flood back into their minds. The three of them running from shop keepers after they raced with the carts down the isles. Or them having to sneak out of the house because one of them got caught being stupid.
       Asher smiled as he put his arms around Lux, "This is great but I can't breath." He said out of breath. Lux pulled away and looked at his friend, who was holding his chest.
      "What's wrong with ya?"

       "I had Cystic Fibrosis so my parents thought it would be a great idea to give me artificial lungs. Now, I can't take in too much air or else I'll pass out."

"So that's why you're with the Pigs."

"Yeah, not like I wanted to join. My parents couldn't pay for them. So I got the shitty ones AND I had to work for dickheads." Asher tapped his chest and felt the pin on it. Without thinking he took it off of his breast pocket and then threw it into the woods. "Now I'm free to be me."