11 Mind Shield (1/2)
”Ooh this feels like heaven.” I sighed, feeling bliss when I eased myself into the warm water and allowed it to soothe my aches. ”How long has it been since I bathed?”
”Was wondering on that. You were a bit stinky.” Death joked.
I cussed at him and splashed water at this face. ”Well you try to smell fresh when you're shooting out Banshees.”
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Death's smile dropped with sober reality. ”Gat s.h.i.+em is gone. It's hard to believe. Our home, so many centuries of magic history, just gone.”
His voice quivered with tears.
”Yeah.” War sighed when he entered the water next to him. ”Meh and yah be only ones carryin' all dat history in our heads.”
”Not true, right? All the Library Tower and Archive Tower's knowledge being stored in your puny brains?” I asked to reconfirm. ”Do you even have s.p.a.ce for it?”
War snarled. Death looked insulted. They both lunged at me with a head lock and a dunk.
I submerged and resurfaced, spluttering out warm salty water. ”Okay! I believe you guys.”
The three of us fell to silence and our pensive, sad moods. The water absorbed all the tears we shared together for the loss of our home and family.
”We have to save Pesti.” I voiced my determination.
”No disagreements there. Especially after that Pale Rider incident.” Death chewed on a nail.
”Yeah, sensed it too. Dat rider back there felt like Pesti.” War's body tensed. His face was contorted with a frown.
”That's impossible! Pesti can't be that thing! Pesti's nothing like that!” I protested.
No way in h.e.l.l that thing was my brother. I won't accept it.
”Felt like him. Didn't say it was him!” War grumbled.
If it was him.
”I miss our brother.” I mumbled in the water to stir up bubbles.
_”Yeah. We didn't see eye-to-eye most times. He's meh brother. He's one of dem good ones,”_ War said in my mind.
”I've been wondering this whole time.” Death mused, still chewing his nail. His voice lowered to a faint whisper. ”Why are these knights helping us?”
”That's who they are?” I innocently answered.
Death stared at me with one of his 'you can't be that stupid' expressions.
”Famine. Didn't you say you were found in a demon's lair within that prison labyrinth.” Death recapped for me.
”Yeah. Small Cap and I, then the knights helped me find War in one.”
”Did it ever occur to you that maybe they placed you in there?” Death's voice was dangerously low, so it almost sounded like a murmured breeze.
I frowned at the thought of it. If they did, it wouldn't make sense to rescue me from it and make me one of their own right?
”I don't get it.”
_”Keep yah friends drinkin', yah enemies in yah bed.”_ War provided a crude answer in my head.
”Stupid! That doesn't mean anything.” I flicked water at his smug face.
”What doesn't mean anything?” Death asked.