"Mutation. It is the key to our evolution. It is how we have evolved from a single celled organism into the dominant species on the planet. This process is slow, normally taking thousands and thousands of years. But every few hundred millennia, evol...
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"What do you mean they want my help?"
It's night time now, and I just started to star gaze before the sudden interruption. I laid out an extra tarp on the ground, seeing as we wouldn't need it because there was no chance of rain due to the lack of clouds in the sky, got comfy and stared at the night sky. Bree joined me after she maintained the height of the camp fire making sure it was big enough to breath on it's own. Everything was calm, but now Romeo was the bearer of bad news.
Now Bree sits up and repeats her question. This time he replies, "I mean I was trying to eavesdrop to see what the plan is and once they caught me they told me to come get you," he points directly to Bree, "all I know is they said they want your help."
Now I sit up, "for what?"
Romeo shrugs, "beats me, they probably want you to heal Logan after Scott gives him a black eye for flirting with Jean," he says this causally as he walks by then sits on the edge of the tarp before looking back at our unsure expressions. "What? You guys didn't know about those two?"
"Oh we knew," Bree smirks as she stands from her place and brushing off what dirt was left on the same super suit we each still had clad to our bodies. I stand too and walk beside her towards the camp fire the adults have managed to make on top of the hill where they've remained since we landed and set up camp. My sister gives me a cautious look while I walk beside her, "you know I can handle myself."
"I know," I tell her as we walk through the tall green trees, "I just don't want you to have to tell the story twice of what they want. You know, once to me then again to Jay and Carrie. And probably a third time for Romeo because I'm pretty sure he doesn't have an attention span."
She chuckles under her breath and keeps up her pace to match with mine. The light from the moon guides us through the forest. It makes it easier to avoid fallen branches or obstacles like thick roots that poke up from the Earth. "I miss Scar," Bree mumbles over the sound of our feet crunching on what dry leaves and sticks were beneath us. "I know she's okay, or I hope she is, but I just can't stop thinking about how much she'd enjoy this. And how much easier things would be with her here. Mom wouldn't be such a mess, it wouldn't have taken us so long to build a fire, and she definitely would have been able to handle"-
"Bree, breath," I whip around to set my hands on her shoulders, "all three of us will be together soon. And when we find her we're going to tell her all about our trip. She'll love it and she'll probably laugh her ass off when we tell her Mom almost chopped Romeo into tiny little pieces with a butter knife."
Bree's laugh echoes through the trees right as we emerge from the forest and start our climb up the hill to reach the panel of mutants. When we arrive all eyes turn to us and Logan is the first to comment on my presence, "I should have known if we wanted one Musketeers we'd get the other."
