𝚃𝚛𝚊𝚟𝚎𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚘𝚗 𝚂𝚎𝚊𝚜 𝙾𝚏 𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚛𝚜 RESTORED

C h a p t e r: 13 Riverstone Training

3rd POV:

Walking in the middle of nowhere, Loopy felt uneasy about something. She kept on walking because it was just anxiety from the public incident of exposing herself for attention.

She stopped near a river. Riverstones She took off her shoes and stepped on the cold, refreshing Riverstone. She soon started walking on the steady river. She never took off her shoes for a while, so her feet are sorta bruised.

Her heels were bleeding a bit too. So it made her wince a bit when touching the water. The girl sat next to a tree near the water and took out bandages from her backpack. She heard something for a moment, but she didn't care since she was busy bandaging her feet.

She thought it was an animal for a moment until a silhouette of a boy loomed over Loopy from the left. She froze for a moment and continued to finish bandaging her right foot.

She started to bandage her left foot.
'Alright, if I ignore him, then he might go away' She thought. As she kept on bandaging her left foot until it's good enough for another walk.

And yet the boy was still there. Which got her nervous. She went stiff. She got her bags ready and was about to head off.

"Finally, you're done."

The boy let out that testimony so unemotionally. She stopped, she turned to the kid that was just as the height as her but a little shorter.
She sighed softly,

"Alright. What do you want?"

She consulted with the kid. He tilled his head in a confused manner.

"Who are you?"

He took a step forward. Still looking dull and bored. Loopy furrowed her eyebrows to a little annoyance.

"I think the media and the news will help you with that. You?"

She exchanges the question to the boy.

"Free De La Hoya."

He boredly responded. The girl never really had anything else to say so she turned around and continue to walk away. She believed that it was over, but she still felt unsafe.

She turned her head to see Free following her. She turns and starts to power walk. She still felt followed. She started to jog, then started to run.

The sounds of footsteps plop against the green strips of grass. Leading to speed hopping on the damp river stones up to a ridge of a small cave made from fallen boulders.

She hid in the cave and peeked outside. To see where Free is or if he's even following her.

'I think he's gone'
She sighed in relief. She checked her surroundings before heading out.
She sat outside of the small cave. The sharp blades of grass scratched Loopy's wrists. But only to make it itchy more than painful.

"It's better for you to not run since your heels were bleeding a second ago."

The boy appeared behind a tree. Not even exhausted by running up a steep river filled with slippery river stones.