The World Walkers: Unknown World: Bellona: Arguing with Anatoliy (part 2)

[k_a_webb]

Part 1

“Maybe to you it makes more sense, but to us it makes more sense to run, because we know we aren’t going to be able to fight them.” Anatoliy opened the wardrobe, made a face at what was in it, and started gathering more clothes. “There’s only eight of us, Bellona, and at least twenty of them. We will all die if we try.” He shook his head. “Father believes you’ll die if we leave you here, so you’re coming with us, because it will hurt Theda if something happens to you, even though you decided she wasn’t worth your time when you found out what she was.”

Bellona stared at him. “Who told you that?”

“Theda did.”

Unfortunately that made sense. “Yeah, she would. I wish you’d believe me if I told you what really happened, but you wouldn’t because it’s you, and you care about your sister.”

Anatoliy cared so much about his sister that the day after it had happened he came knocking on Bellona’s door and told her that if she went anywhere near Theda again she’d regret it. “Maybe I do, but if she’s been telling lies…”

“She was trying to protect me.” Bellona brushed a hand through her hair as she remember the very loud argument they’d had. “I told her I didn’t need protecting, that I was happy to be her friend no matter what, and she blew up at me. When she left she said she never wanted to see me again.” She bit her lip to stop herself from feeling the very same emotions she had that day. “My curiosity lost me my best friend.”

“If she hadn’t been crying when she got back I wouldn’t have known anything had happened, but she was. She hadn’t been able to stop the tears from falling before she walked into the house and she hoped that no one would see her. Unfortunately I was there.” He dumped another pile of clothes into the suitcase. “Through her tears she told me that the two of you weren’t friends any more, that you’d told her that it would be better if she didn’t spend any more time with you, and I believed her when she said that, because I had no reason to think that she might not be telling the truth. Yet it makes sense that she wasn’t, when I think back, as I remember the interest in your eyes when you saw what I was doing.”

“Theda was scared I’d ask you to teach me. I did ask her to, but she said no, that I had no idea what I was asking, and she was probably right.” Bellona looked into her suitcase. “Why does your father think they might come after me?”

For a moment there was silence as Anatoliy attempted to shut her suitcase, which was never going to work. “You were Theda’s best friend. They will think that you know something and they will get it out of you, eventually.”

Mirrored from K. A. Webb Writing.