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The long walk to the hotel had allowed me to think through what happened with Bella and yet I cannot still understand why she is protecting Harper so much, we lost Thelma and we need to find her as soon as possibleIt wasn’t on top of my list to make Harper convulse to death but the way she defended him has me questioning a lot of things and that only strengthened my resolve to forcing him to talkYet I cannot be distracted by that, forcing Harper to speak was lame because it will not take us anywhere, we need a plan as to how we are going rescue Thelma and we need to leave this place the soonest we can.Getting to the front door of the hotel had me realizing something, I had to break the news to Rose and Olivia myselfI heaved a deep breath and run my hands through my hair to coordinate the strands the best I could, then I push the door open, Thelma and Rose look my side and the smile on their faces disappears and is replaced by worryThey rush towards me with the villages standing behind them and the teenagers in the fore front of them. I drop my head lightly trying to find the words, we had lost some people including Maya but finding her cloth and Thelma being gone changed the game for us“T… what happened?” Rose asks, she swallows hard and continues “why are you alone?”“why are you not saying anything?” Olivia asks almost immediately“Bell and Will are with Harper at the beaded hut” I say“that’s a relief, did you guys have a fight or something?” Olivia asks with a breath of relief“Wait.. you didn’t include Thelma” Rose asks, tension growing in her voice“The shadows –”“No no no no no” Rose rushes to me and grab my cloth “this is some huge prank, you do that a lot” Rose yells and I don’t say anything. They had become so close so I expected Rose to respond that way“Oh my God!” Rose drops to the floor and Mira rushes to console her“I saw Maya’s clothes –” I fill them in on what happened in the mansion“What did they do to her?” Mira yells at me and Olivia holds her back“We don’t know, the shadows wouldn’t let us get to the underground” I say and Mira breaks down, thankfully Olivia was still put together so we could control the teenagers and RoseI fill them in further with what happened with Harper and Bell and Willow deciding to stay back with her****************It has barely been so much of a long time since I got to the hotel, the villagers were tensed and the food in the hotel has gone short, the water from the hotel had seized alsoAll these things clicked in one direction and it was the fact that out time was up and these people are no longer here to play. We can never make it to the underground without being attack with so much desperationIf anything our friends and the other captor could be there and they don’t want us to get to them. On a second thought, I am glad I didn’t kill Harper – if he doesn’t run away thoughBut then if he is willing we can use him to break free from these people, he can tell us how many people we are up against and what exactly is powering this whispering gust that had been haunting us since the day we came here.Bella“so, you pointed to the wall with your eyes and nothing happened to you?” Willow asks and Harper nods“it means that he can show us something but not tell us?” I ask“that is too risky, the other men I met convulsed right before my eyes and for some reason Harper is still alive even when we know he is working for them” Willow says“so what is it exactly that will make them die?” I ask grunting in frustration“Olivia’s friend…”“he was finding a way to get Olivia out of here and he was trying to go around the rules” I interrupt him“now it all makes sense, the circle that had the five stars along the circular line. He was looking for how to do all these without ending up dead” Willow says“so instead of telling Olivia anything he just planned within himself and executed it being careful to not provoke the shadows. That is why he picked specific artifacts to dig up and not necessary all of it” I add“I thought we destroyed all tha–”“Harper!” I yell at him and he slaps his mouth shut “be careful what information you dispense”“How about Harp here will plan our escape?” Willow suggest "he will plan to rescue Thelma too and we will just get the info and study it late”“The thing is, you guys –”“Harp? Think twice”“You have done all the things he did while going round in circles, anything else will infuriate the ritual” Harp chokes at the last word and waits like he is expecting to die“We already know that” Willow utters and hold his mouth “wait, if he tells us what we already know he lives and if he spills what we don’t know then he dies” Willow adds“I didn’t know about the underground” I say“Technically he didn’t tell us” Willow say and I roll my eyes at him“how about I use something unrelated to tell you people something or I speak in opposites” Harper says with a shrug “that could work”“lets go rescue Thelma” Willow says excitedly
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I step back, and stood transfixed staring as she stumbled and fell to the floor, my mouth drop open and my lids break apart“Thelma!”The girl wipes her broken bottom lip with a finger and look at me, her red strands that she had hidden away in a hair tie falls loose on her shoulder“I am sorry Bell” she almost stammer in breaking voice“don’t call me that!” I fume at herShe breaks down in tears and falls again on her butt, crying her eyes out “I shouldn’t, you just destroyed my only ticket for a better life!” She yells back at me“we were going to escape, we were going to finally be free and you, what did you do?”“I made a deal that would have helped me live normally. The way I could”“so we should all be damned so you live well, we were going to give each other that, that is why we connected”“you don’t get it do you? All you faced was a cheating boyfriend and you got yourself drunk. I freaking drove off a bridge. How did you think I would want to return to that same worl
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A flash of blurry lights hit my eyes and dims down again, the throbbing pain in my head slowly increases and a banging sound erupts in my head, I raise my hand to hold my head but my arm hurts too so I let it lay still. The light comes back clearer and leaves again“How many more are still alive?” I heard Harper sayI struggle to open my eyes but my whole body aches and I grunt lightly, a hand scoops me up into some huge body, the scent is familiar so I sniff harder and it is mixed with smoke and blood – blood! I shoot my eyes open but it only slowly breaks apart and I am looking at Tony, there is blood on his head and his arm has a deep cut that is bleeding. I gasp and try to get up but he holds me down“stop, you are hurt” he says“where?” I manage to say, my whole body aches so I cannot pinpoint where exactly is hurtingHe looks at my head and smacks his lips reluctant to answer my question “just stay still, we are trying to get the survivors out before they figure out how t
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“that day, Rose had ran out of the bar when I was out. I looked for her throughout the bar and surrounding parks and when I didn’t see her, I went to her house… the door was open so I rushed in and found some men taking her, I saw the face of one of them because he didn’t have it covered When they saw me, I ran away and they chased and chased me until they caught me… A blow to the head and blank blank” Tony narrates and we nod. We were able to find some edible snacks on the shipI don’t know how long it had been but I do know that we didn’t have to wait with anxiety, instead we decided to use that time to bond since we would have to go our separate ways when we get back to civilization It is really sad though but I have learnt not to use the uncertainty of the future to stain an opportunity for good memories.Talking about our families and how much they will be happy to finally reunite with us, that is…when we have torn down this organization The boys on the other hand had no
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Chapter 54
A flash of blurry lights hit my eyes and dims down again, the throbbing pain in my head slowly increases and a banging sound erupts in my head, I raise my hand to hold my head but my arm hurts too so I let it lay still. The light comes back clearer and leaves again“How many more are still alive?” I heard Harper sayI struggle to open my eyes but my whole body aches and I grunt lightly, a hand scoops me up into some huge body, the scent is familiar so I sniff harder and it is mixed with smoke and blood – blood! I shoot my eyes open but it only slowly breaks apart and I am looking at Tony, there is blood on his head and his arm has a deep cut that is bleeding. I gasp and try to get up but he holds me down“stop, you are hurt” he says“where?” I manage to say, my whole body aches so I cannot pinpoint where exactly is hurtingHe looks at my head and smacks his lips reluctant to answer my question “just stay still, we are trying to get the survivors out before they figure out how t
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Chapter 53
We had rode and rode through the sandy road as the afternoon sun heated up the bus, sweating and anticipating the sight of the beach even though we didn't know where it was. We don’t even know if we are going the right way – at least we are going at allThis journey reminds me of the journey that got me here and how I wondered if the experience was worth the long journey and yet even in returning I couldn’t wait for the journey to end“guys” I call their attention “isn’t the length of this journey familiar?” they all laugh Olivia smacks her lips “well, I for one... I was excited but that excitement turned to fury when the cab man wouldn’t talk to me” Olivia saysThelma claps “the snubbing cab man, I thought I was the only one”“he did talk to me eventually, I didn’t keep quiet” I boast. Beaming at myself“wow, I don’t even know what his voice sounds like” Olivia complains and we laugh“he also asks me what if the ghosts haunting the village was real” I say“wow, he did. You d
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Chapter 52
I step back, and stood transfixed staring as she stumbled and fell to the floor, my mouth drop open and my lids break apart“Thelma!”The girl wipes her broken bottom lip with a finger and look at me, her red strands that she had hidden away in a hair tie falls loose on her shoulder“I am sorry Bell” she almost stammer in breaking voice“don’t call me that!” I fume at herShe breaks down in tears and falls again on her butt, crying her eyes out “I shouldn’t, you just destroyed my only ticket for a better life!” She yells back at me“we were going to escape, we were going to finally be free and you, what did you do?”“I made a deal that would have helped me live normally. The way I could”“so we should all be damned so you live well, we were going to give each other that, that is why we connected”“you don’t get it do you? All you faced was a cheating boyfriend and you got yourself drunk. I freaking drove off a bridge. How did you think I would want to return to that same worl
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AnthonyWe had arrived at the border not long after we left the hotel, the bus is not there as we saw it earlier. So we decided to wait. In the process of waiting we had slept through the night at the border and it is the morning nowI grunt “what should we do now?” the sun is barely risen but the light of day is upon the island“check out the brick house” Willow suggests and I nod along with himWe slowly make it for the brick house, one step at a time until we are leaning at the wall of the house. We walk slowly along the wall till we got to the rusty front door that was already slightly open“when will they arrive?” a huge man with chest tattoos and a tiny nicker says in a grumpy cracking voice“I think in fifteen minutes time. They are an hour behind us” says the younger one looking at his wristwatch, he is better dressed and has glasses on “oh, the package?” he asks looking from the chest tattooed man to another similar sized man“it's ready” the similar one answered“wha
