Halina, Sining and
Bagwis are sitting under a tree staring at the campfire. Kilometers away they
could hear the booming sound of advertisements of President Katuna. Sining,
being the sensible of the bunch, saw that Bagwis was squirming of discomfort
far from the booming noise itself. Halina was too focused on the noise and is
infuriated and decided to pack her things up and encourage the other two to do
so, they would move farther away from the city just to avoid the noise.
While packing, Sining went to Bagwis
and asked him of what is bothering him. the two conversed for a while and
Halina wouldn’t notice because she was busy being annoyed and covering her
ears. Sining leaned closer to Bagwis asking again, what is bothering him.
“Something is up with
you, it’s not the noise itself, what is it?”
But her efforts to
converse with him were in vain, she couldn’t get an answer.
Sining , despite being the most
sensible in the bunch, was clueless of the past that her companions have. She
has her own demons too but they were able to be suppressed for quite some time.
Halina was not someone she worry about as she saw her as a person of privilege,
much to her distaste. It took a long trip before they could escape the loud
noises. At last it was quiet, they were busy setting up their camp when Halina approached Sining. She had a childish
grin on her face and sining was visibly annoyed by the approach.
“I see you took quite
a liking on Bagwis, seeing how he kicked your ass. You like it rough huh”
Halina said while brushing her chin and grinning mockingly
“What no! why would
you think of that, mind your own business”
Sining’s
exclamation startled Bagwis and looked at the two of the ladies conversing.
Halina awkwardly waved her hand at him saying there’s nothing wrong and pulled
Sining behind a strangely huge rock. The grin of Halina’s face was beginning to
annoy Sining ang turned her left hand into a hoove of a tikbalang, attempting
to strike her. Then Halina spoke
“I know you’re
concerned of him, I was just putting up a stupid front so he won’t suspect”
Suddenly, the atmosphere changed along with the expression on Halina’s face. “I
met him in a village burned to the ground, as he was helping refugees hide from
the men of Katuna. I helped him secure the refugees to safety and decided to
come along with me for some reason. You have to understand that he left
everything to make a change. I do fear him though, as his anger towards Katuna
is greater than his will to protect his people. Who knows?”
It was quiet for a while and sining,
upon hearing the story of Bagwis, convinced Halina to talk to him. it was a
heated argument as halina greatly opposes it while Sining was persistent. The
two ladies were loud and before they could draw a first attack, Bagwis swooped
in and stopped the two ladies. He was visibly disappointed as hs eyes were red
and his hair is a mess, he was sleeping soundly when the two girls were
arguing. He didn’t have time to process much of what was happening and after he
stopped the ladies, he slowly came back to his spot to sleep again. But sining
had other plans.
Halina was shushing Sining but the
latter refuses to shut up. She was persistent to ask Bagwis of what is wrong
despite the fact that he was sleeping. She is perceptive in other people’s
feelings but seems to disrespect their willingness to sleep. The two argued so
much that it was loud once more and bagwis was awake for real now. He had that
disgruntled look on his face with his eyes piercing the two. The ladies hadn’t
noticed immediately but they were feeling as if there is something evil staring
at them
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