April shifted her weight. "It's not like I've got anything better to do."
Noah nodded "You aren't wrong." He turned to face her. "So, basically, you, me and four other people are stuck in this forest."
"What are their names?"
Noah counted off on his fingers as he listed names. "There's Koko, Whitney, Sean, and then Cooper."
"Did any of them get hit too?"
Noah smirked. "Cooper kind of got hit in his hand because he's a cocky little bastard. He forgot what a sword was for a day and refused to even look at his own sword. Shame it wore off so soon." He laughed a bit. "I would have loved for you to see it."
April smiled. "That does sound pretty funny. He's okay though, right?"
"Sadly, yeah."
There was a short pause before April spoke up.
"So why are you here?"
"What do you mean?"
"I mean if there's four other people, why are you the one who stayed behind?"
Noah looked off into the trees as he thought about his words. "Sean gets along better with Cooper than I do. And Whitney and Koko are practically inseparable at this point." He leaned back, letting the back of his head hit the earth. "Plus, I'm the only one that can do this." He lazily held out an arm to the sky and April moved her gaze upwards to see the exact same wall-shield thing from her vague memories.
"That was you?"
"Huh?" He let his arm fall and glanced over.
"I remembered the shield but I was too far away to tell who."
He nodded. "Yep, that was me. Plus, I wasn't going to just leave you here alone. I mean, yeah, you were unconscious and didn't really respond when we tried to get you to, I don't know, talk or open your eyes or something. But you did have a pulse, and you seemed to be breathing, so I'd be damned if I brought you back here just for you to be killed by something or someone else."
"How considerate," she deadpanned.
He smiled and looked over. "You didn't forget your sense of humor, I see."
"You'd be damned if you let me die and I'd be damned if I didn't sarcastically reply."
He sat up. "That's pretty accurate."
YOU ARE READING
Shadowstruck
FantasyA girl wakes up in a forest with her memory wiped. Now they have to figure out who's behind The Uprising and, more importantly, how to stop them. If they can stop them. They're losing time. And the gods aren't on their side.
