We walk softly, amongst the pines;; LASS

[ミSailor彡]

❊ S P A R R O W L U X ❊

    I can feel myself falling in and out of consciousness. I almost feel like I'm floating outside of my body, watching the terror of not knowing if I'm going to be okay. I feel the boys arm around me, steadying me. I can hear him ask me if I'm okay, it sounds like he's far away but I know he's right next to me because I can feel the warmth of his body, his arm wrapped tightly around me. I almost don't notice the larger, older guy run up to us until I feel him start tending to my wounds. I feel the coolness of the makeshift gauze he holds up to my face. It stings at first but a sense of relief washes over me, knowing it's over. No more fear, no more fighting, no more wolves. It's time to recover from here. No more worries. As my shoulders start to sink from relaxation, I'm proven wrong with one sentence, muttered by the older boy. 

    "Where's the other one? The girl?"

    My heart sinks to the deepest depths of my body. The girl... I threw her before being attacked. Did she run off? Or did she get taken? Were there more wolves than we had anticipated? Is she even alive? Oh, god. Oh, god. I should've gotten her out of there right away. I should have... just... done... I find the strength to put my hands over my face, only lightly to not disturb my wound. What could I have done? If she's dead, could I have really prevented it? If she's dead... Oh, god. 

    "We gotta find her."

    This statement comes from the boy, who is now without a leg. It's painful to watch as he struggles to bring himself up, practically throwing himself from tree to tree, calling for her. I lower my head, eyes ready to pour, wanting to go on a full out search but I just can't find the energy in me. I can't even get up. I'm glued to my spot on the ground, arms trembling, hardly holding me up. Then I hear a sob, a cry, something. It's innocent, meek, sad, lost. She's alive! The boy hobbles around, yelling for her even louder now. I lift my head to scan, with my one good eye, the tree's and bushes for any irregularities. Trying to pin point where her voice is coming from, following the echoing tones bouncing from tree to tree. I follow it until I see, from far away, maybe a hundred feet, possibly two, a shoe. A little girls shoe, sticking out from behind one of the bushes. 

    "THERE!"
         
  I throw one of my arms in her direction, immediately regretting that decision as the tears in my shoulder start to bleed again. I don't want them to worry about me now though. They need to go see if the little girl is injured. She's my priority at this point. 

    "Go! Just go get her!"

SHIN OF GS + ADOX

[Andrei Ehrenström]

At the mention of the younger girl, both the older girl and the boy seem to be drawn out of their stupor, becoming frantic to find her. Had there been another wolf? Neither of them knew where she had gone. The boy straggled to his feet before Andrei could stand on his stiffened joints, and watching him awkwardly hop uphill was painful to watch. Seeing him fall and yell in frustration was almost unbearable. He paused a moment to help the older girl up, since she seemed to be having trouble standing after the ordeal; she was tough, though, trying not to cry while they were searching for the littlest one. Andrei followed the boy up the hill pulling the older girl along, hauling him up onto his good foot. He wasn't tall enough to sling an arm over his shoulder, so he settled for wrapping his arm tightly around the boy's torso to hold him up. Considering he'd just battled a wolf, Andrei didn't figure he'd appreciate being carried; it wasn't particularly dignified. Not that he'd be able to, supporting both of them at the same time. But then he heard it too-- sobbing coming from a little further up the hill, the older girl pointing towards a little shoe poking out from behind the foliage of a bush (and clearly immediately regretting the motion). Andrei maneuvered the older kids to lean on each other, giving the girl his carpenter's knife. "Just in case." He said, "I'll go get her." He followed the sounds of the sobbing, scanning the woods around them for any more potential threats possibly lying in wait for them to be drawn to the youngest's cries. But he saw nothing and heard nothing unusual as he found the hollowed-out tree with a tiny figure inside. She couldn't possibly be any older than Freja and Aniike. Andrei crouched in front of the opening and reached his hand in to touch her shoulder. "Hey," He said softly, "It's okay. Lets get you out of there." Of course, he could only imagine the hell he looked like, covered in dirt and blood and wolf hair. "The wolves are gone, it's okay to come out."

Word Count//Theme by Ali

_{Short, but I'll have more to say once Lila reacts.}

[ali]

Lila hid, tightly packed amongst the branches and leaves. The wolf had run off now but it could come back and eat her any second now; she didn’t fancy dying today. Silence hung in the air like a cloud, waiting to be broken by the tiniest of noises but for a few moments it remained- it was so quiet that Lila could hear her heart beating in her chest, fast and furiously as the fear sunk deeper. Her lip trembled and her eyes still watered as she remained as still as she could; pretend you’re playing hide and seek, she told herself bravely as the quiet refused to dissipate. It was hard though, to keep quiet and still when you were so scared. Finally, sound broke the barrier of the silence. At first, it frightened Lila since it was so sudden and loud; but the sound was fairly far away, so wasn’t as loud as Lila had first thought. It was a voice, calling out into the forest for a little girl. Lila guessed that was her. However she daren’t move since she feared this was some sort of nasty trick that a witch was playing on her, so that she would leave her safe place and right into the jaws of a wolf. The shouting got louder as more sounds joined it, foot prints crunched against the forest floor; the soft dirt dampening the footsteps. Suddenly a bloody and dirty hand reached in through the shrubbery, making Lila scream and flinch away. Cowardly, she closed her eyes tightly, wishing that the ghost hand would go away; that’s when it spoke. It was a comforting voice, telling her that she was safe and that the wolves were gone so it was okay to leave the sanctuary of the nest. Lila slowly opened her eyes and peered at the person through the gaps in the leaves. It was the hero, the knight in shining armour, the guy who had turned up at the last minute to save them all; though she did not know if the others had survived. Lila’s parents had always told her to keep away from strangers so at first, she was hesitant to crawl out but as she studied the boy closely- he reminded her more and more of her older brother. With his dark eyes and soft hair, Lila couldn’t help but compare him to Jake. Slowly, little Lila crawled out from the bush. Her knees were weak and she shook with fear still, even though the danger had long since passed; she saw that the boy and the princess had made it. That was good. As she stood, her little body trembled and her lips stuttered as she tried to muster an apology but all the little girl could do was cry. 467 Words