Stolen Truth

4

I managed to catch Wolf in the kitchen whilst I was cooking with the others, I didn't do much, they really just made me turn the heat on, so I had plenty of break time. I had been meaning to ask her all day about what else she saw before training yesterday, after all, if it's about me I have a right to know.

"Hey Rat, are you okay?" She asked when I walked up to her.

"Yeah, I'm good. I was just wondering about what happened yesterday?"

"What about it?" She asked, pulling on her fingers nervously.

"I know you saw more than you told us."

"You're right, I did," she said, "But I can't tell you what it was."

"Why? Is it bad?"

"It will be bad if I tell you. You need to figure this out on your own, but I can tell you that you are way more powerful than what I told Viper."

"How do I know you're not lying?"

"You don't," she said, "You just need to trust me. You won't get far here if you don't learn to trust other people, it isn't a sign of weakness to lean on others for help."

"But..."

"Look, I know how hard this is for you. You've grown up believing that we were the bad guys, your entire existence has been based on destroying us and fighting us. For you, finding out that you are one of us had to have been the most confusing experience of your life. You never even trusted the blanks, so trusting a 'dark one' will take time and it will take effort on your part."

"I know, I just..." I started miserably, "Three days ago I hadn't even seen a girl before. Three days ago, I was on my way to fighting a war. Three days ago, despite how terrible the camp was, I had a purpose, and now it just feels like I don't."

"Find your purpose then. Whether that's fighting for us, fighting for yourself, or fighting for her," she said, gesturing towards Dove outside, "You need to figure out what your purpose is, there's a reason why you're still here, you just don't know it yet."

"I suppose, I –"

"Hey Stranger," Dove cut me off, coming up behind me, "How was your training today."

"It was okay, Viper is extremely harsh and Bear isn't that much better."

"I feel you," she laughed, "But they both mean well, it's all to ensure our survival."

"Who knew survival could hurt so much," I joked, leaving the kitchen with her. It was mid-afternoon and a rather warm day as well, the bits of sky we could see through the trees were a clear blue and there was the sound of rustling everywhere. The woods had been dim for the past two days and for the first time I actually felt like I could see properly.

"So, can you actually use your powers?" I asked Dove after we had wandered away from the others, "Because all I can do is light myself on fire, and I don't think that's particularly useful unless I plan on attracting moths."

Dove laughed at that, I hadn't heard the sound of laughing very much up until my sudden arrival here but from what I heard she had the best laugh. "I can use my powers," she said, "I can turn invisible whenever I want, it's fun to mess with people."

"Can you show me?" I begged, desperate to see someone using them without almost dying.

"I couldn't exactly show you being invisible," Dove giggled.

"Can you please turn invisible for me?"

"I don't know..." she teased.

"Please," I begged her.