forum “You don’t know what they did to me. To us.” (a continuation of an abruptly deleted thread)

Started September 23, 2020 by @Tired-but-passionate

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"im fine with whatever, like i said if i dont eat i wont starve." she continued to look around the room.

The creature swiveled its head. The rain was coming down hard now. It emitted a soft sigh before going over to the girl and curling up next to her. You smell familiar too.

she leaned into the warmth of the creature, only a little wet from drissle earlier, she yawned covering her mouth with her hand. "well that's a new one."

As he talked, Noel took his hand and leaned on him, also giving him silent comfort. Alister gratefully accepted both, squeezing Noel’s hand and gazing warmly at Evan.
(Just thought I’d add that before posting for Malachi)

Thunder rumbled outside. Arabelle stared at him for a while. Then, “So you were looking for your sister?”
Alister nodded.
“Do you…” her mouth pulled into a grimace. “You don’t feel tied to them still, do you? The aliens.”
“I…” He wasn’t sure how to respond to that. Just yesterday, life had seemed like a game of chess, only the opponent could read his mind and his sister was the opponent’s queen. Now it felt like someone snapped the chessboard in half, gave him the queen, and gave the opponent a gun. He was in an anxious limbo, afraid of breaking, unsure of where to go.
“… not tied to them, but I feel like they’re standing over my shoulder.” He managed.
“Ah.” Her grimace turned into a simple, sad frown. “I see.” She shifted her position, crossing her arms over her chest. “We can’t have people who are afraid, Storm. We need people who are angry and hopeful.”
What was she implying? That he was going to join the rebels? He wanted to stay with Noel, and maybe Evan, but…
Her eyes flicked over them all. “Stay upstairs for now. I’m going to send a search party. And please, Arden,” she furrowed her brows at him. “Don’t be stupid and stay laying down. Tomorrow will come quick.”

He huffed crossing his arms at her requests and kind of demands.
"I want to be on the search party." He muttered huffing at her looking away. He really did want to know if malachi was okay, if the aliens found him he was dead for sure. He wanted to make sure they found him but he knew he couldn't.
"I want to sit up." He grumbled once more.

“If we don’t find him tonight, I can send you tomorrow.” She thought for a moment. “Scratch that, I could send all of you tomorrow.“
Noel perked up. “Really?”
“Sure,” she grinned. “You’re young, but I’ll have other adults going with you.”
She looked to Alister. “Do you want to go?”
Before he could say anything, Noel blurted, “Yes!”
They both stared at her.
She coughed. “Um, his abilities will be useful.”
Alister was spacing out, so he didn’t say anything. So Arabelle shrugged. “Okay then.”
As they turned to go upstairs, he snapped out of it. “Noel! What was that?”
“You’re going to join this rebellion if it’s the last thing I do,” she smirked. “Besides, why not spend more time with your sister and your soulmate?”
He reddened. “Noel… can we talk? When we get upstairs.”
She studied him. “Fine.”

The first thing Malachi became conscious to was the pain. His body ached, and he couldn’t stop a groan from coming out of him. Then he could hear the rumble of thunder and rain, but he wasn’t wet, so where was he…?
He slowly opened his eyes.

The creature’s head swiveled. He’s awake.

Kali turned her head towards malachi, studying him and hearing his groan.
"Good. Your not dead, I was beginning to think I did that for nothing." She turned back to stare at the creature before turning back to focus on malachi and see his response. "oh yeah and she won't hurt us, so don't freak out."

Evan grinned and sat restless in his seat about going out on search tomorrow. He would finally be free of this wheelchair and that bed and he would be able to do things on his own.
He couldn't wait.
He noticed noel volunteer Alister and turned to look her before hearing her reasoning. I guess it does make sense.
When they were walking back he didn't comment just letting them talk about it between siblings wondering why Alister wanted to talk with just noel but didn't pry.

Malachi could see the girl’s face and rocky stalactites above him. The floor beneath him was also hard and rocky. It didn’t help with the pain. He didn’t even think about sitting up.
He groaned again. ”Où sommes-nous? Qu'est-il arrivé? Je me souviens de la créature … at-elle tué l'extraterrestre?“
His mind sort of snapped back to his first language automatically.

she turned towards the beast jabbing a thumb at him.
"I think he's broken, i don't know a single thing that he's saying." She turned back to look at him, flicking him.
"Speak. English." she said slowly, as if she was talking to someone with not smarts.

”Qu-“ he coughed. “Ah, sorry. What happened? I remember the creature… but my head is fuzzy.”
He gingerly took his hand and lightly touched it to his temple, rubbing it. “You’re ability to teleport doesn’t not feel good, y’know.”

"Well sorry i have never teleported with too people before, I'm used to the darkness and the feeling it gives you." She shrugged.
"the creature killed the alien and brought us here." She sighed looking around the cave once more, hoping to find something.

“I see.” He coughed again. “Used to the darkness, you say?”
The creature tilted its head at him. Hurt? What happened to him?
It slowly stepped toward him, leaning in.
“Why… is it staring at me? Créature effrayante…”

"Yeah used to the darkness, i grew up in it." She tched at his response, noticing his cough, then turning her head to the creature.
"I think he got shot by the gun from the alien but I'm not exactly sure." She responded looking at malachi.
"Its trying to check for injuries, i think."

He raised an eyebrow. “Wait, can you-“ he hissed as the creature hovered over him, it’s mane hanging over his torso. It inspected his chest, then gingerly raised a paw over it. Malachi’s muscles tensed, much to his dismay and pain. Thankfully, it brought it down without touching him. He relaxed, trying to breathe without his chest aching.
The creature shuffled down and bent down to his foot. It’s nose curled up, like it smelled something unpleasant.
Then it rose, looking at the girl with a worried light in its eyes. No bullet wounds. Electrocution. Foot has a slight burn. We should not have moved him.

Kali cursed inwardly glancing between the two and seeing the look of pain on malachis face as he was being inspected.
"well we did. So what do we do?" She turned to the beast. She wasn't frequent in first aid so she had no idea what the first thing to do was.