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packing she would just follow me, it was her way. She
wasn’t the type to take no for an answer.
     
    “ Fine,” I grumbled, wanting
nothing more than for this conversation to be over with. “But if I
ask you to leave or do anything for that matter please promise
you’ll listen.”
     
    “ I promise.” I could tell that she
didn’t want to but it meant a lot to me that she had. I took a deep
breath and yawned.
     
    “ Come on you, let’s get some
sleep. We’ll head north in the morning.”
     
    “ Why north?” She asked as she
turned down the covers and crawled underneath. I climbed into bed
next to her and closed my eyes just as soon as my head hit the
pillow.
     
    “ I don’t know, I guess it’s just a
feeling,” I groaned through my tired haze. I settled myself in and
for a moment my mind was quiet. It wasn’t long before a string of
doubts and fears kicked making it hard to feel like this was the
right thing to do but it wasn’t like I had a choice.
     
    I felt the hold of sleep beginning to wash
over me as the sound of her soft snoring filled the room and
somewhere in the middle of it, my world went dark, giving way to
the nightmares that consumed my dreams.

Chapter Three
     
     
     
     
    I woke to the sound of a strange tapping next
to me. I couldn’t place it and my eyes argued as I forced them to
adjust to the room around me. Rolling onto my back, I rubbed my
eyes and looked over at Cordillia as she sat cross legged on the
bed next to me and typed away on a small black laptop.
     
    She stared intently at the flickering screen,
her eyes filled with wonder and confusion as she surfed quickly
from one page to the next. Images of monsters and pages full of
text filled her screen. I didn’t need a second glance to figure out
what it was that she was researching.
     
    “ Morning sunshine.” She smirked
without even looking at me. I grumbled in response and sat up as
she continued her work.
     
    “ Find anything interesting?” I
asked quietly as I stretched. My body ached in all the wrong places
but I had high hopes that a shower would fix that as it always did.
She shook her head and reached down, lifting a large paper cup and
handing it to me without so much as a glance. I hoped she was just
engrossed in her research as I took it from her and shot her a
questioning look.
     
    “ I didn’t poison it.” She smiled,
looking over at me quickly. “It’s just coffee, I thought you might
want one.” she added as she reached down and grabbed her own. I
took in the smell as I pulled off the lid and took my fist sip, it
was enough to coax me out of sleep and bring me further into the
land of the living.
     
    “ When did you leave?” I asked as
she returned her attention to a web page splattered with images of
various monsters.
     
    “ I got back about twenty minutes
ago.” She shrugged. “I found your key near the broken table. By the
way,” She turned to me and took a sip from her own cup. “What are
we gonna tell the owner about that?” I thought for a moment and
smiled.
     
    “He’ll figure it out on his own.”
     
    “Really?”
     
    “What?” I chuckled. “I’ll tip him.” She eyed
me for a second and shrugged.
     
    “Setting a great example here,
Ethan.”
     
    “Hey, you said yourself that you’re an adult.”
I smiled over the rim of my cup as I took another sip.
     
    “So?” She smiled.
     
    “So you should know better than to follow my
example.” Cordillia chuckled lightly and shook her head a she
placed her cup back down on the floor and went back to
work.
     
    “How long was I out?” I asked curiously as I
leaned over to get a better look at what had her
attention.
     
    “Mmmm...” She mulled for a second and looked
down to her laptop. “It’s about ten now so seven hours or
so.”
     
    I nodded as I crossed my legs in front of me.
It was a little later in the day than I liked but it wasn’t like we
were in any kind of hurry. I couldn’t even explain why I was