Collision by Alyx D. Vacca (e ink ebook reader TXT) 📖

I need your permission to work a Healing on you and save your life. Do you give me your consent?" There was a long pause. Than he nodded. Bastion waved his hands briskly through the air, making flourishes here and there, all the while mumbling Tobi's name over and over with his eyes closed. Suddenly there was a bright flash and all the people sleeping woke up with a start. One of them said something about firecrackers whilst another talked about dynamite and other explosives. I was blown backwards and Tobi passed out again. As for Bastion he just turned around and walked back to his pile of blankets and fell asleep once more. I walked back to Tobi and saw that his mouth was open and I could not help but looked inside. The tongue was completely healed. The only thing that was wrong was that he still had no tongue, but I already knew that he would never have another one. But that was fine with me, as long as he was alive, I was happy. I dragged my sleeping bag over next to the "Hospital bed" and laid down. I was tired! I was asleep almost instantly.


Chapter Eleven

Nothing happens the way you want it to.

Nothing happens the way I ever want it to. When all I wanted to do was make out with Tobi when we were being chased before we met the queens, what happened? We were roughly pulled apart and dragged up stairs. When I wanted to be a Chosen when Tobi got picked, that did not happen either. My life sucks. Anyways you must be wondering why I am complaining, right? Well, here is what happened that made me realize just what a fucking annoying life I have got.
In the morning when I woke up, I looked around and saw that everyone had disappeared, including Tobi. That last irked me. I was thinking that maybe if I found a piece of paper and something for him to write with he could "tell" me what had gone so wrong that we had to flee from the capitol buildings of both countries. But now everyone was gone. Where were they? I looked around for some sign of where they had disappeared to, but there was none. "HEY! IS ANYONE HERE?" I yelled. Suddenly a hand grabbed my mouth and pulled me into an alley. "Wha-" I said startled into noise before the hand had completely muffled my voice. Tobi pulled me roughly against a wall and shook his head before removing his hand. I nodded mutely. Something was up. Now you see how nothing goes as planned? Everything can go from being completely and totally cool, and then the next we are running for our lives again. Because that is of course what was going on. I do not know if the police were after us or Bastion and his gang but ether way if found us it would not be good. Tobi took my hand and smiled at me, obviously glad to see me alive. I smiled back, and then we were running. We ran through sewers and through the crowded marketplace. I was most definitely getting some cardiovascular work done here. As we ran I got a weird feeling that kind of tickled and yet somehow felt like someone was poring water over me. It started behind my ears and swamped over my head and then dripped down to my feet and out my toes. It felt good. I was also positive it was a spell. "Tobi?" He looked back as we ran to show that he was listening. "Are you spelling me?" He smiled, and nodded. "Is there a way that you can show me why? You can still sort of talk without a tongue can't you?" He shook his head and pointed to his throat with a disgusted look on his face that also portrayed hatred. They had made doubly sure that he would not be able to say anything. They had crushed his throat damaging it beyond even a Demon Healer's skill to fix. At least he could breath properly. He then did something really strange. He jumped what looked like ten feet in to the air and on to the top of a low roof and motioned for me to follow him. "What are you talking about? I can't jump that high!" He looked at me with a kind of crooked smile that asked me if I was stupid. The spell. "Oh." I jumped and landed next to him. He grabbed my hand once again and off we went jumping from house to house, landing so lightly on the rooftops that we hardly made a sound and no one noticed us. I noticed that every time we jumped or got close to the edge he squeezed my hand a little harder. But at least he was working through his fear of heights whilst I still stayed as far away from dark small places as possible. At last we jumped down from our last roof. As we jumped Tobi almost broke my hand as he crushed it within his own. He pointed towards a low hanging branch from a tree nearby. Now I was beginning to think that he was crazy to want to go up a tree right after getting of the high roofs, but as we headed towards it at a fast walk so as to look at least somewhat inconspicuous, instead of going to the trunk of the tree, he brushed the branch away and reviled a tunnel into the ground. As he started into the tunnel he realized that I had stopped following him. He turned, giving me a puzzled look. I just shook my head. I could not say anything. Exspesially after he had just ran across rooftops, defying his own worst fear, to get me here. He looked at the tunnel than at my terrified face then gave me a half smile. He reached up and took me hand and gently pulled me towards him. I resisted and shook my head, trying to get my lungs and mouth to work together and explain why I could never go into that dark and narrow hole in the ground. But sadly I was not even close to matching Tobi's strength, he easily pulled me towards him anyways and wrapped a firm but comforting arm around my shoulders and led me into the tunnel. About three yards in I started leaking tears and closed my eyes and buried my face in to Tobi's side. He just kept walking. We walked like that for what seemed like forever and a day, no more like a month, when he pushed me away from him slightly and touched my eye lids lightly with his fingertips. I opened them. We were in a small room true, but it was brightly lit with flickering torch light. I breathed a small sigh of relief and hoped that Tobi had not heard it. But he did. When he heard it he looked down and smiled at me. Lots of other people were there already. Tobi took me to a corner in the room and let me go. He nodded at me and left for a moment, and then was back with pizza. I had not realized just how hungry I was until I saw that wonderful cheese and pineapple thick crusted pizza. My stomach growled in anticipation. Tobi's shoulders shook with silent laughter at the sound. I grinned back at him, then he took out a pad of paper and a pencil and started to write between bites. I did not interrupt him. I knew what he was writing, he was explaining everything that was important at this moment. The details could wait for later. At last when he was finished he held it out to me. I wiped my greasy hands on my jeans (they were dirty anyways, it did not make much of a difference to my hands either) and took it from him. This is what it said:
Jayd, so much has happened I can't even begin to start. You're probably wondering what happened that made us have to leave the White House/Palace, right? Well here is how it goes.
I was lost and walking down some corridor in the basement when I heard voices. I just thought that I would go and ask for directions but unfortunately I that was not a good idea. I walked into the room to see a group of about thirteen adults in black matching robes and masks that completely covered their faces, so that none of them could even know who was who. I don't know much about conspiracies in your world quiet yet, (it's only been a year since the Collision) but in my world that is a definite sign. They wear the cloaks and masks so that not even the members know exactly who is in it. That way, if there is a spy they can't tell any one who is in the organization. And if one does get caught, and they are tortured they can't tell on anyone.
So as I was standing there in complete shock, one of them turned and saw me. They reached out and grabbed me before I even completely comprehended what I was seeing. They tortured me to see what I knew, if someone had sent me, or anything. Half way through I blurted out your name, I was in so much pain that all I wanted was for someone (namely you) to come and save me from it. I felt as though I was going to die. They mistook your name for someone who sent me and they picked out people to go and find and kill you. After that they crushed my throat and cut my tongue out with a serrated knife. And let me tell you, that is painful! After that I think I went into shock, I was oblivious to all that was happening around me. People leaving people coming and all the while all I could think about, when I could think, was how to get out of here and find you so that you did not suffer because of me...

Around this point I started crying. I flung myself at Tobi and hugged him hard and did not let go of him as I continued to read.

Once the last person left I was able to think clear enough to figure out how to untie the ropes. After that, my head was functioning as properly as possible and I ran out of that room like a mad man. When I saw you coming down those stairs... You have no idea how glad I was to see you. I wish I could have explained to you right then, but as you know that was quite impossible. Anyways, that is what happened originally. More recently you might be wondering what happened at Bastion's this morning? Well... His newest members made