"That"s not the question right now! What happened back there!" I yelled.Charles looked at me in confusion. "What do you mean?" He said.
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"When the fire was raging, you were just floating in the air, your head to the moon and your eyes glossed over and white."
"s.h.i.t.... not again."
"It"s happened before?!"
Charles looked to his left and saw the remains of the clearing. "Charles what do you mean not again?!"
He sighed, "When I first came here I was approached by bandits. They had torches and were waving them in my face. Fire must be some kind of trigger because that was the first time that it happened. I watched their faces turned to horror as I could feel myself lift off the ground. Everything around me turned black and the next thing I knew I was surrounded by their b.l.o.o.d.y, mangled bodies. Their limbs were twisted and their clothes were torn. I couldn"t believe my eyes. I ran off. Ever since then I"ve tried to control it. I don"t even know what it is! I guess I need to keep working on it. The fire last night triggered it. I"m just glad I didn"t hurt you."
"I guess maybe I should"ve put that fire out," I said sheepishly.
"YOU DIDN"T PUT OUT THE FIRE!" Charles yelled at me.
I looked down and chuckled. He looked at me annoyed but relieved. "Let"s get down from here," I said.
Charles and I had made it down the tree and were on our way back to the village. We found the decaying bodies of the guards and their bloodstains on the gra.s.s. We walked a little farther and came upon the village, but every building was burned to the ground. A pile of bodies sat in the middle with the banner of Miniro on top. Every single man, woman, and child was dead. I gasped at the sight of it. The other guards must"ve come looking for the others and burned down the village in revenge. I felt tears well in my eyes. I dropped to my knees and cried in my hands. Charles placed his hand on my back and dropped down next to me. I buried my head in his chest and sobbed. He brushed his hand through my hair.
"Why did I come here? This is all my fault. If I didn"t show up here, none of this would"ve happened..." I said, still sobbing.
"This isn"t your fault Akila, none of this is," Charles said to me.
"We should bury their bodies," I said looking up.
"I"ll do it. You go and rest. You need it after last night."
I stood back up, still crying, and found a tree to sit by. I watched as Charles found a surviving shovel and started to dig a big enough hole to bury each body. He laid them down one by one. By the afternoon Charles had covered the grave and had sat down on the other side of the tree. He sighed and wiped the sweat from his brow.