HOMEPAGE LIBRARY

I couldn't sleep. After that battle I couldn't. Serena just died and I did nothing about. I couldn't have. I was just weak and helpless. I had acted like everything was fine around Liza and tried to hold in as may tears as possible but I couldn't. I checked to see if Liza was asleep. I didn't know why I did. She was asleep and I crawled like a child back to my sleeping bag and exploded. The hot salty tears were running down my cheeks. I couldn't stop it. I was whining like a baby. Liza was still asleep. Shocking how she could sleep through that. I dried my tears like Serena used to and silently cried my self to sleep.
The next morning Liza woke me up. "Ready?" she asked. I nodded. My clothes were blood stained and a part of my shirt was damp from crying. Gross. Liza didn't look much better. I guess yesterday's fight really wore us out. "Maybe at RavenStone they'll get us some new clothes," said Liza looking down at her ripped blue jacket. I looked at my clothes. Ripped black tights, ripped black shirt, ripped mini bloodstained blue jacket, yeah we definitely weren't in a fight and lost badly. "Let's go," says Liza. I got on my boots and finger less gloves. "Ok." I say. I look over at the empty third sleeping bag with a blood stained cross bow next to it. "I'l take them just in case." I say. I roll up the sleeping bag and stuffed it into the bag. Next to it was the sniper rifle. So much for not shooting people. I touched the crossbow and hesitated. "Well what are you waiting for let's get going!" says Liza impatiently. I knew what she was thinking. We were both hungry.
We walked in the woods for a while trying to find RavenStone. Liza, like Serena knew all the berries that would kill you and the ones that wouldn't. We ate a little and continued. After an hour of two we saw a wooden sign. "Finally!" I say and read the sign.
<------ Raven stone : 15 miles DragonSlate-------> : 18 miles
"Well we're getting close..... closer at least," I say. Liza tapped me on the shoulder. "What?" I ask. She points to the bottom of the sign. I look down. There, in messy red paint is another word: CresentRun. "That's not a clan..." I say. "Well it's way closer than RavenStone." says Liza and points to the words : two miles beside "CresentRun" . "Fine. We can stop there get some food and help and then go to RavenStone. "I say. " It's on the way," says Liza and shrugs. "Fine, whatever," I say.
"FALALALALALALALALALALALALALA" I scream. "Shut up!" yells Liza. "You're attracting people! Like BlueHawk members!" she screams. "Precisely! Then I can kill them cause I 'forgot' to yesterday!" I said. " Are you crazy? Did you see how strong they were?" says Liza. "Well guess what we have, the 9th or 8th most dangerous weapon on this planet!" I say. "Uh huh after diamond katanas and giant alien bombs." replies Liza. "Well of course, duh BUT we also have... YOU! and you can uh... no offense but what can you do?" I say. "I have a knife. Which I can use to stab. People." says Liza. "Riiiiiiiiiiiiiight, we really have to get you a new weapon like a machete or a rapier. " I say. " I'm fine," says Liza. "Wait!" I exclaim. "You can have Serena's crossbow!"
"Uh thanks? I'll just use that as a secondary weapon or something," says Liza. She put the arrows and her knife in her satchel and held on to the crossbow. "How many more miles to uh Cresent... uh fun?" I ask. "CresentRun and I think about another mile or so," replies Liza. She fiddled with a locket. "So, tell me more about Lynna," I say. "Huh? Oh well... she looks like me just taller and she has longer hair..." Liza trailed off. "It's just been a while since I've seen her I guess," she says. I nodded. "Same with Cole, he ran off too. If he's joined a clan, it's probably FireClaw. He always thought that FireClaw was cool cause they use nun chucks and ninja stars, stuff like that." I say. We were silent for a moment. I thought about Cole. Liza was probably thinking about Lynna. I suddenly thought about when I went to school. They taught us that there are at least twenty runaways from each clan every year. 20% of them die. 30% of them join other clans nobody knew what happened to the others. They might have died and nobody had found their bodies. I hoped Cole joined a different clan and that he was a hunter like he wanted to be. I hoped that I could see him again one day. Who knows? Maybe he joined RavenStone. Maybe Lynna was there too.
"Just another half mile to go," said Liza interrupting my train of thought. "Oh, ok." I say. There was an awkward silence. What would Cole want me to be doing right now? He would probably want me to be a warrior that brought justice to the world or a hunter that help our clan. Probably he wanted me to help people. I was doing that know.... right? After a few more minuets, I was interrupted again. There was a rustling sound in the bushes. No... "Crap," says Liza as she took out her pocket knife. "I'm killing them this time," I say. "Thanks for your falalas," said Liza. "Yeah sorry," I say. We were silent for the next minute, clutching our weapons. There was more rustling and a black boot came into view.