• I jumped up. "Stay here, Ze, everythinggs fine."
    "Their near," She stuttered with a choked voice. "Im sorry, but when you come back I'll be dead."
    I blinked twice slowly. "Like hell."

    "Seth, Seth!"
    He turned his head. "Did you get the med- Why are you carrying Ze?" He narrowed his eyes. "DId you- What is that!?"
    "Dai and Ryley are Ka." Ze bluntly called. "Kill her, now."
    "Dai did that to you...?" Jewel muttered.
    "Oh crap," Seth breathlessly stuttered. "Oh crap. Get the twins!"
    And just as I put Ze down and turned, Ed and Kye were right freaking there. "Holy-!" I screamed, startled.
    Without speaking, Ed walked into the kitchen and grabbed a knife. He threw it to Jewel, who caught it slyly. She stared at it with confusion. "But-"
    "No!" Ryley cried. "No! We're not Ka! We aren't! Please don't!" She ran out of words, her voice choked and weak.
    Ed glared at Jewel, harsh and freaky. "Kill her. Now."
    Jewel looked down at her. "I... I can't!"
    "Oh, for Meta's sake!" Kye called, taking the knife and almost in a split second throwing it into Ryley's chest. "It's that easy!"
    And in moments Ryley's eyes went from baby blue to grey, and her chest no longer moved with breath. Her fingers, cluched into fists, opened, limp and pale.
    "Let's go, before anyone finds the body," Ed ran into the kitchen. "Get your weapons."
    We all blinked with wide eyes. These guys sure were quick.
    Suddenly, my bow was thrown in front of me. I looked up, and Ed was there with his swod over his back. He handeed me my sheath of twenty arrows. "Get up. Now."
    I wiped invisible tears from my eyes and ggrabbed my bow, standing. "Alright."
    Seth stood, pulling up his two small blades and his own bow, and his arrows over his back. "Ze, will you be okay?"
    Ze stayed on the floor, against the wall of the hut. "No. Leave me here."
    We all glared at her. "We aren't leaving you." Seth promised. "If you can't get up, we'll carry you."
    "I'm lucky im alive now. I won't live to see past tomorrow, Seth. Im sorry."
    "Then let it be then. Let's go." He pulled her up by her arm, slinging it over his shoulder. "Jewel grab her other arm, is-"
    I looked over at her, and she was sitting by Ryley, tears on her cheeks and dripping on the floor. "Just like that." She said quietly. "Someone can die, just like that."
    Kye knelt by her, helping her up. "Come on, Jewel. We need to run."
    Ed threw Jewel her sword, and she clutched it in sorrow. "Ryley woulnd't..."
    Ed grabbed some wine that was in the kitchen. "Let's go, now."

    The last thing we could think of was to leave the house behind, but evidence could lay in there of where we are. The Ka are smart.
    Seth lit the torch and threw it into the house, dasing away. We all quickly followed, watching it go up slowly then quickly in flames.
    Jewel stayed, watching the flames dance. "Ryley..."
    Ze took her hand. "It's okay."
    "Donne." Ed called. "Go into the woods and check if anyone';s there."
    "Alone?" I stuttered. "What!? No! The Ka could be in there."
    "I doubt it," He pushed me a little.
    "I'll go with her,"
    Kye raised his hand a little, voulenteering. "She'll be fine, promise."
    I blushed, my face pink. "Umm, Jewel or something can go, or-"
    "Jewel is too stunned."
    "Ze can-"
    "Half dead."
    Ze narrowed her eyes. "Way to make me see the light, jerk."
    "Love you too," Kye waved, grabbing my wrist and pulling me ahead. I heard Ed direct Seth to go somewhere, before their voices were drowned.
    Kye was tall and silent, and I'd never been alone with him before. He had white wine in his hand, and he took a quick gulp, looking into the woods. "Nothing right now." He mved some blonde hair. "I think their-" He looked over at me. "Donne, are you okay?"
    I stayed staring into space, into Kye's grey, bright eyes. He looked at me, confused. "Oh, what? Sorry. Brain fart." I laughed to myself, knowing it was hopeless to get Kye to laugh. It was rare to hear him talk this much. Laugh, no.
    "Are you okay?" Kye repeated.
    I blinked, nodding. "Yeah, fine."
    Kye sighed, looking ahead. "I wonder what the walls are like, inside them. I hear it's big and beautiful in some States." He wondered. "Like, houses, huge and full of people. And you don't have to hunt or make clothes. I mean, we don't really make clothes, we steal them from the walls carts..." He looked down, curious. "People say it's the best thing in the world to live in there... But there are things like war and desease and arranged marrage."
    "Arranged marraige?" I looked up.
    "Like when a girls parents meet some guy and force their daughter to marry the guy..." Kye explained. "Out here, you don't even really get married. You just fall in love."
    The words slipped out of me before I thouyght about them. "Do you love anyone?"
    He paused, drinking more. "Well..." He breathed. "Someone. You don't know- them." He sighed. "Trust me."
    Them?
    "I might!" I shot.
    "Trust me."
    I blinked slowly and sadly, nodding. "But-"
    "Well well..."
    We both paused, looking around. "Where did that come from?" Kye asked slowly.
    I drew my bow, readying an arrow. "Come out."
    Out of the trees then, he came.
    A Ka.
    Dai.
    He held his glittered sword out to us, his orange-white vest blowing in the wind with his blue hair. "Look at this, some strays came out to play."
    "It's two against one, Dai." Kye called. "Give it up."
    "Actually," Dai smirked.
    Out of almost nowhere, Five more people in orange vests jumped from the trees, holding glittery swords, smirking at us.
    "Six," Dai corrected, holding up a four with his fingers.
    I almost said something before Kye drew his sword and took a swing at Dai. "Your sister's dead, Dai." He spat. "Your next."
    "Seth!" I stupidly called. "Uhh, Ed! He-"
    "We got them," One Ka laughed. "Their trapped."
    The Ka began to circle in on us. "So," Dai began. "Whose first?"