I still don’t know why I was let through.
That is the limit of the knowledge that I have, everything else was lost as I stepped through the light.
I don’t even know where it is, I don’t remember where in this realm I stepped out into.
I just know that there was a pocket somewhere and that the bad souls weren’t there.
Of course, the first thing that I did when I managed to get through the light was to go and find Rast, which is where I found out everything about what is really going on with the compounds, and I have been trying to tell him ever since.
Chapter Twenty- Two
Nico
My first clue that something was amiss was when I tried to give him a hug and fell right through him.
I shudder. That is a feeling that I do not like at all.
It’s all kinds of weird.
I forgot that I was dead. I’m still only remembering things in bits and pieces, and I haven’t remembered anything else for a while, which makes me think that I’ve remembered what I am allowed to remember.
Of course, even if I had remembered that I was dead, I probably still would have tried to hug him. Before the realm went dark, you could still hug people as a soul. The living, I mean.
That’s when the knowledge that I was a ghost hit me.
I glance at Rast as I walk beside him, and he has absolutely no fucking idea that I’m next to him.
He looked for me.
He put himself in extreme danger to find me, and if I could, then I would fucking smack him for it. Unfortunately, he can’t see, hear, or feel it when I try to smack him, and I have tried.
No one can.
Apart from maybe Farren. Now she’s intriguing, and Rast’s reaction to her is even more intriguing.
He’s smitten.
Whether he realises it or not, and I would wager that he doesn’t, he is absolutely gone for her. Rast is not great with feelings. He never has been, but he hugged her back, and that’s a big step in the right direction.
I have to admit that I can’t blame him. Not only is she beautiful, but she’s strong and fierce and definitely not afraid of him, and he likes that. I’ve been with them since they entered the warlocks' home, only to find that it was enchanted inside.
It was all going relatively okay until Rast decided to offer them a safe place to rest at the compound.
I could see even he was hesitant to offer it, hell, the others even picked up on it, but what else was he supposed to do?
That’s all he’s known, that’s where it’s supposedly safe. That’s what they told him to do if he succeeded.
Admittedly, I panicked, he can’t go back there. Fuck knows what they would do to him, or the others, for that matter, and for some reason I really care about what happens to them. So I tried to say something. Obviously, he didn’t hear me, but he did feel that I was standing close to him. The hairs on his arms stood up, and he glanced at the door as if he was cold, maybe?
So, I mean, that’s progress.
He still didn’t get the message or understand my warning though, which was making me panic more until Storm suggested that they stay the night in the house, and then Laikynn told them pretty firmly that they can’t go back to the compound and said that it wasn’t safe for him to go back there. The way that he said it did make me wonder whether he heard me, but that’s impossible, and not once did he look at me or make any other indication that he had heard me other than the fact that he warned Rast.
Plus, I’ve been around their kind before, and none of them have seen me, if they had, they would have eaten me or laughed at me. I probably looked ridiculous trying to help fight them off and having no physical effect on anything at all.
Besides, I don’t want to fight them anymore. As I’m coming to learn, which happens a lot with the compound, what the compound has told us about them is a lie.
Rast looked so relieved when Laikynn pretty much took the decision out of his hands that he even explained about the compound and some of the shit that he suspects that he doesn’t realise he’s right about. It feels right that he’s shared with them, they needed to know.
