Chapter 26 · Spark

"Nice to meet you too," I whispered trying to sink back into the wall more.

Tiki hopped back on one leg. " ok, ok. So you guy want to do something. I got that new card game."

"We are not doing that again Tiki I think Bane almost broke the dining table," Susan said with an added eye roll.

The day carries on slowly. We all sat down on the sofas with me sitting closer to Bane with Susan on the same sofa as well but on the opposite end. Tiki and Steel sat on the other sofa.

They soon all started talking. Lucky they didn't seem to look other at me much which I was just fine with. Most of what they said went over my head which sucked. First, they talk about other people and then about a guild that I think they worked for them to go on about their plans for what they called a dive. Even Steel spoke a few words but mostly just nodded.

I could feel myself starting to go back into a daze as their talking turned into a humming background noise much like that of the now heavy sounding traffic outside. My head firmly in my hand I turn to the window. The sun had risen high now so that I couldn't see it and only that of a few clouds poke throw the constricting towers. I closed my eyes to the world.

Like the dripping of rain. I could hear it. I could feel it. Cool and endlessly flowing. The dripping was all around me. I open my eye.

Tiny. The light was tiny. Like a pinprick. I look around at the tiny cave I stood in. My body was different. Undefined. I knew I was just a spark myself yet that didn't worry me.

I reach out to the tiny light only to find it blocked by a pond of endless water. Like an ocean inside a cave. I reached and I reached.

Jade

Like a tiny rinning bell I heard my name. I looked but I could not leave. I stood on my island of stone. It was safe.

Jade

I didn't want to do.

JADE

I opened my eyes to see Bane friends looking at me while feeling a strong shaking on my should.

"Jade your not dying on me. Please I can't afford to get kick out of my new flat." Bane voice sounded next to me.

"I was just sleeping," I muttered not caring if it was rude. My shoulder hurt from where she grabbed it.

"You sure, your aura was going crazy. I'm not a great reader but I could fell that," she tried to explain while seeming to try and send a message to the over with her eyes.

"Twisting, growing, shaping," came an oddly high-pitched voice from Steel. God, why did everyone have a weird name? Bane, Void, Steel sounds like a bad teen band. Why was I think about this now, stupid brain?

"Yes, yes, best to check you ok. You are ok, right?" ask Tiki with a titled head which was oddly sweet and creepy at the same time.

"I'm ok. But er not to sound dumb but what is an aura," I asked.

"Well I'm not sure if we're the best people to answer that it might weird you out a bit," Bane said letting go of my should and seeming to relax back into the sofa again.

"Not to be mean but yesterday I had a knife also kill me..." I started

"It was reaction," Bane snapped with a quick reply only for Susan to lightly smack Bane on one of her outstretch hands.

"Bane don't interrupt and stop nearly killing people. If you're going to have a reaction to frow knives at least hit. Please carry on dear," she said

"Um thanks," I replied starting to think maybe everyone in this group was a little too crazy for my liking, apart from Tiki she was just a bit too much for me at the moment. "Anyway, and I had lots of over stuff... which... um. Oh, I lost my point so just tell me already,"

"Ok to put it plainly its like part of your soul is outside your body and yours is... trying to eat itself," Bane start to explain with a bored expression like she told people this a hundred times.

I started to panic. Just a little