When Ricollio and his team found them, they immediately distrusted them, and that gave me enough reassurance.
Finding Rast has given me the opportunity to observe these people that he seems to have found. They’re interesting.
I’ve been listening.
I mean, what the fuck else am I supposed to do?
I’ve learned a lot.
No one in that group is what they seem. They’re all incredibly strong and, quite frankly, watching their dynamics with each other isquite interesting, especially watching one of them try to tell Farren that she couldn’t do something.
That was brilliant and made me like her and them actually even more.
I know things that could really help them out, and Rast needs to know that he can never go back to the compound. Not only would they most likely try to end him regardless of the consequences.
If the others went with him, like they offered to do in order to help Rast figure out what was going on with them, then there’s a good chance that the compound leaders would try to end them as well.
I’m not saying that they would likely succeed in ending them, but they most likely would take casualties at least.
The compound leaders are strong and pretty much all of the people that live in the compounds are incredibly loyal, just like Ricollio was, and they would fight for them if the compound leaders ordered them to, which would mean that Rast, Farren, and the guys would be severely outnumbered.
There are other things that I have found out about the compound since I’ve been able to observe without being invisible, and I really need to find a way to get Rast to fucking hear me, even though he’s never fucking heard me before.
“Come on dickhead, I know if you tried hard enough, you’d realise that I’m here,” I start, brushing against his arm.
He shifts, so I know that he felt something, but he does that a lot, and he still doesn’t hear me.
As usual, I start off with the important stuff, things that he should know.
The things that I have been practically screaming at him ever since I first found him.
But as it becomes increasingly clear that he’s not going to reply, because he can’t hear me, I start to hurl creative insults at him, peppered in with embarrassing stories that he would hate for me to repeat. For no other reason than it makes me feel a bit better about this shitty situation.
I pause for a second as I swear that the ground under my feet shocks me. When it doesn’t happen again, I catch back up to Rast and carry on my one-way conversation.
Farren
Ifrown.
That flicker that I kept seeing on Rast’s left side gradually got more and more frequent as we carried on walking down the dirt road. I paid attention to it, obviously.
Now the stress of the situation may have finally got to me, but the flicker is now in the shape of a man.
I don’t know why, but pretty soon after we started walking again after we found Ricollio, the flicker gradually increased in speed, and then it kept staying long enough that I could swear that I could see someone standing next to Rast, but it wouldn’t stay long enough for me to be sure until suddenly it did, and it hasn’t disappeared yet.
There is a man standing next to Rast.
The guy has clearly been following us for a while, because I’ve been seeing the flicker pretty much since we left Ignatius’ place, and the flicker is obviously actually this man.
I know I should have said something as soon as I was sure that he was solid and not going to disappear again, but something stopped me.
Well, the realm stopped me.
He’s not really doing anything except walking next to Rast, and it looks like he’s talking to him, but I can’t hear what he’s saying despite the fact that I’m not that far away.
My instincts, or rather the ground beneath my feet, is telling me that I need to observe before I do anything, and that it’s really important that I watch, so that’s what I’ve been doing.
Watching.
