Post by StoryGirl83 on Nov 9, 2011 9:35:39 GMT -5
Chapter Nineteen – Let the Darkness Speak
“Any idea how much farther we have to go?” Chris asked Brianna, trying to look around for her. Considering it was pitch black that was difficult, but he could sense her and that caused him to stop. “I can sense you.”
“Good for you,” Brianna retorted. “I can hear you. What’s your point?” she asked as she felt along the wall in the dark.
“It’s a power,” Chris informed him. “If my powers have been stripped, why can I use it?”
Brianna stopped. “That’s an interesting question. Why didn’t you notice before?”
“I guess the darkness forced me to use it,” Chris commented. “I kind of forgot I had it.”
“Any other abilities you forgot you had?”
Chris thought about it and nodded. He chuckled as he realized there was no way she could see him. “Yes, actually there is, but there’s no way for me to know if it works here.”
“I guess most powers would be difficult to test here,” she admitted. “What’s the power?”
“Invisibility,” he informed her dead pan.
She whipped around to stare in his general direction and burst out laughing. “Yeah, that would be kind of impossible to tell. Anything else?”
“I don’t think so,” he decided. “How much farther do you think we have?”
“Could be five feet or five miles,” she admitted. “I have no way of knowing. There’s no light at the end of this tunnel.”
Chris snorted and went back to walking in silence.
“You’re ignoring me, aren’t you?” her voice asked from behind him.
“And why not?” he replied. “You have very poor jokes.”
“It wasn’t a joke,” she protested.
“Are you sure we need this moss?”
“Of course I’m sure,” she retorted. “It’s not as if I like the idea of trudging through the dark for untold periods of time. I rather like sunlight, thank you very much.”
“Some demon you make,” he shot back.
“I’m not a demon,” she threw back. “I am a witch who had a warlock mother. And since warlocks are merely an evil form of witch, don’t call me a demon.”
“I thought all of you were part demon.”
“All but me,” she informed him. “Max is part Snake demon, part something else. Toby’s part Scabber demon. Aka’s part Grimlock. CT’s part . . . well, honestly, I’m not sure about him either. I think it’s something rather more unique than the other three, though. I’ve never actually seen his natural demon power, so I don’t know what it is.”
“And how is it that he has unnatural demon powers?” Chris asked, bemused. “That’s just kind of weird.”
“I guess that’s because he . . . I’m not really clear on that either, but something about the powers of another demon being put into him. That can happen through blood transfusions and power stealing athemés and the like.”
Chris nodded. “I see. Well, not really, but I understand what you are saying.”
Brianna smirked at that. “Yeah, I guess neither of us really sees any . . . Ouch!” she cried out as she smacked into a wall. “I think we found it,” she informed him as she pulled out a plastic bag.
“Great,” he replied with definite enthusiasm. “Now we just collect it and walk all the way back down this tunnel until you can get us out of here.”
She pulled some moss off the wall and sealed it in the baggy. She handed the baggy to Chris. “Let’s get going then. We have a long walk in front of us.”
“Where to next?” Chris asked as he packed away the baggy.
“Somewhere less pleasant than this,” she informed him before adding, “but at least we’ll be able to see.”
“Thank goodness for that,” Chris commented, trying not to think what might be less pleasant than being completely unable to see.