Snippet #2126062

It was quiet, and peaceful. He was used to sleeping all the time, but somehow this time the sleep was different from any other time. He just felt more relaxed and safer than usual. It had been a while since he'd actually fallen asleep at night before the moon reached the middle of the sky. Usually he would just stay awake until sunrise and then sleep until the late afternoon. Or we would just space out naps every few hours, but that eventually started causing him too much drowsiness and fatigue to care for. Why was this sleep any different from the rest? Perhaps it was because he didn't fall asleep alone somewhere. This time he fell asleep with company, and a warm fire, and a beautiful song sung by a beautiful girl.

'Thud'

Keito's eyes cracked open, his vision blurry at first and his mind hazy as he tried to figure out where he was. The fire was starting to dim and go down, and it seemed well into the night. The sun might even rise in a few hours. His eyes opened a little more as he tried to recall why he'd woken up. There was a noise of some kind that interrupted his sleep. What was it? Maybe that thief just fell asleep and toppled out of the tree...

"The cure."

Layla?

His suddenly found himself awake as he recognized Laya's singing voice and he turned his head to look up where it came from. The sight surprised him more than it should have. She was standing in front of Jude, a gun in one hand and a vial of some kind in the other and a little smile on her lips while Jude sat there looking like he was going to vomit. Keito silently sat up, putting together the reason for this scene in his head. Of course, it made sense now. The feeling he got earlier of someone following them, it wasn't a man at all, it was Layla. But why was she doing this?

He quickly reach up to grab the handle of his sword, but then stopped himself. There was no way he could reach them form here, and he gun would travel a lot faster than his blade. He turned his head form side to side, trying to find something he could throw to distract her. That's when something silver caught his eye sitting in the grass only a foot away from where his head had been resting a minute ago. He would've preferred not to, but right now he didn't have a choice.

He reached for the gun and messed with it for a minute in an attempt to get it to be ready to shoot the bullet, whatever you called that.

Man, I really need to better knowledge myself with these things..

He then pointed it in the direction of Layla, but hesitated a moment. Could he really shoot her? Of course! He had to help Jude, but that look in Layla's eyes...

Just pull it!

Pull it he did. He was a little surprised when the gun briefly yanked itself upwards a couple of inches as it fired, but was able to recover. He picked himself up off the ground and continued pointing the gun. He was pretty sure he missed the first shot, but he was being serious now and if need be, he would kill Layla.