Soul Thought

Unconscious Conversations

Unconscious Conversations

 

“You have to move eventually”

A female voice whined nearby, and I was under the distinct impression I had been unconscious for a while since my body was hurting beyond belief. The person beside me didn’t respond and I felt the female presence leave. 

I sunk back into unconsciousness, not knowing if or when I would wake up again, wondering if this was as good a time as any to start preying.

It was a few minutes later – at least what I construed as minutes – when a whole group of people walked up to where I was lying. Every time I came around I seemed to be able to feel moreacutely, the pain was becoming less, but my muscles ached more telling me I hadn’t moved in some time.

 “Why don’t we get her to a hospital?” A male voice questioned, and the guys who I assumed was guarding me from the masses sighed deeply as though he wished the other people were half as smart as he was.

“They’d have to run tests.” He supplied quietly, and that seemed to rectify the problem pretty quickly as no-one dared to challenge him.

I was staying conscious longer, but after a few minutes the darkness beckoned and instead of fighting it, I allowed it to drag me back to the land of unconsciousness. The next time I was partially conscious, I felt another presence beside me besides that of the male companion I had been getting used to. The woman was chanting softly under her breath, and whatever she was saying was helping, imbuing my body with strength I didn’t know I had. She stopped suddenly, as though aware I was awake, but turned her attention to my other companion.

“Why do you guard her?” She asked, waiting the appropriate minute before continuing. “Do you have a claim on her?”

My male companion sighed, and though he said nothing, I could feel him shake his head – he had no reason to be sitting there making sure nothing hurt me, he just did it.

“She saved all our lives.” He supplied evenly, and the woman huffed standing.

“You keep telling yourself that darl” A slight accent punctuated her works, and my companion laughed huskily.

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When I was coming around for what I suspected would be the last time, nothing seemed out of the ordinary. My companion was by my side and the woman was chanting softly on my other side again. I knew that it was time to wake up; I couldn’t allow the darkness to grab me again – because if it did I wasn’t coming back.

I fluttered my eyes, my hand instantly going out to my side, gripping onto hers for the life as me as I forced my heart to start and my lungs to work. I sat up quickly and felt dizzy, but couldn’t show it considering at that moment there were at least ten others crowding around. Their faces showed a range of different emotions from happiness to wariness to confidence.

“Hi?” I questioned slowly, turning my attention to Kaleb and Celeste who sat beside me, seeming to keep the rest of the people away.

“Do you remember who you are?” Celeste asked impatiently and I nodded easily – did she expect me to forget who I was? She nodded and then presented her hands, hauling me up to my feet and supporting me when I almost dropped back to the ground.

“Run along now, you can meet her at dinner” She assured the masses and slowly and surely they all separated, most with longing looks in my direction. I had a feeling I was the only reason they stuck around – they felt they owed me a debt.