47 The Departure... For One (1/2)

The sound of snoring woke me up, who was snoring? Blinking my eyes, I try to clear away the fog of sleep from them. Looking down, I see that the little Witch is still curled up in my side, her face was angelic.

She wasn't the one that was snoring though, had I been awoken by the own snoring. That couldn't be it, right? As if on cue the sound of snoring started again.

Twisting my head around, I find Haru sleeping in one of the empty chairs not even ten feet away from us.

He's got some blood and grime caked onto his face and his shirt is torn and his pants are also a mess, covered in what looks like mud. His whole body ozzed a feeling of dirtiness from it, along with something else it was sinister almost.

Just what in the hell had he gotten into?

Sliding out of bed, I try my best to not disturb the soundly sleeping little Witch at my side. Her face was soft and didn't have her normal worried look etched into it. At the moment, she did just look like a tiny little girl sleeping.

For some reason that was reassuring that someone could sleep as soundly as she did in this world. Brushing a strand of hair from her face, I move to the edge of the bed. Stepping onto the floor, I pad my way over to the chair that Haru is sleeping in.

His eyes are shut and he was snoring but for some reason, I didn't think that he was asleep. Well, at least not completely asleep. Bending down, I look at him. When he's asleep he is quite good looking and not annoying, ever since we've arrived in the town there been something off about him.

I couldn't say that it was an off-putting sensation but it made me feel like I was just another insignificant thing in his eyes. Moving some hair out of my eyes, I observe him for a bit longer.

Sighing, I decided that I would have to wake him up sooner or later. But before I could do that he'd already opened his eyes, the striking golden orbs of his stare at me.

I open my mouth wanting to say something, but the words get stuck in my throat as I watch his eyes start to change. The normal golden orbs start to morph and transform until one is golden and then the other glows an emerald green.

He dips his head forward moving closer towards me, I didn't know what was happening but for some reason, I was unable to move, it was like every bone in my body was locked in place.

His face stopped inches from my face, there was a huge pressure pushing down on my body. ”Haru!” I shout I could feel my body again, I raise a hand and slap him.

The pressure completely vanishes as his one eye fades back to a golden color, blinking he shakes his head. I suck in a couple quick breaths as my body shudders, I'd never felt like that before it was like someone had been holding me down and I couldn't do anything to stop it.

”Alice... what happened?” He asks looking at me with a confused expression.

”I don't really know, but your one eye... it was glowing green, and I felt this pressure like it was so strong that I couldn't move,” I say taking a step away from him.

Did he go see his friend already?

He reached a hand up and rubbed the back of his head, a coy look on his face like he was embarrassed. ”I'm sorry, that wasn't intentional, it's just I went and saw my friend, she managed to unseal a fair deal of the levels that I had,” he murmurs lowering his head.