Spice
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We want to make it out alive? How was his life in danger? More people were coming fast? Wait a minute, more than the one they had sent already? And where was that one, weren't he and Andy working together?
"Where's Charlie?" -
"He's out in the forest, still breathing. Hopefully he stays that way," Ander said, going inside of his house and shrugging his emergency pack on his shoulder. He armed himself with a gun, a handy amount of throwing knives, and a few other small weapons. He offered her a spare backpack and a knife. "You'll need these. I don't have any lady clothes for you, but I'm sure there's something you can use in there." He placed the knife in her hand. "Now you're armed. But if you stab me in the back, I promise you'll regret it. Can I trust you with this, Kenna?"
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Kenna nodded. She didn't even know how to use a knife in the first place except for chopping up vegetables. She slung the pack onto her back, quickly switching the hand that held her cane so that she could thread her other arm through the pack's loop.
If he had taken down Charlie, that meant he was on her side, right? And he had given her a knife, why would he give her a weapon if he was going to kill her? But the thing about Charlie could simply be a lie, and he could be giving the knife to her to give her a false sense of security, besides the fact he threatened her if she tried anything against him.
This was all so confusing. Kenna knew she needed an explanation as soon as she could so that she knew what on earth was going on, whether she could actually trust Andy or not, and so on. She couldn't go blindly like this forever. -
"We'll need to move quickly. Charlie might be alive for now, but if he dies than they'll be hunting us like dogs. We have our vitals tracked by Linnus by a tracking chip. If they drop, people will come to retrieve the body and hide any evidence of their existence from the world," Ander explained, starting a fire at the stove and heating a knife over it. "I'll need to remove my chip before we go. They'll find out what I've done and we can't be followed."
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Kenna stared wide-eyed at the burning knife, then back at Andy. "You're not going to cut yourself with that?!"
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"No, I'm going to cut myself another slice of cake," Ander said sarcastically with a slightly exasperated expression. "Yes, I'm going to cut myself with it. Are you squeamish about blood?" The flames licked the blade, illuminating the sharp angles of Ander's face in soft, warm light.
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Kenna tightened her lips and nodded. "I'll just look away, then," she said, turning as she said so. Blood meant pain, and she never liked seeing another person hurting. Blood is supposed to stay inside the body, nowhere outside.
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"Try looking through the cabinets for bandages and food. Especially gingerbread cookies, if there are any," Ander said, drawing the knife away from the fire and propping his arm up against the table so he could see it at a better angle. "We'll want them where we're going, if everything goes how I think it will."
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Kenna nodded and began to do so. "Do you have a special preference for gingerbread cookies, or is just because you can't tell when they go stale?" she asked as she searched through the cupboards, grabbing whatever she thought would be useful.
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"It's because I'm going to bribe a friend with them. Not bribe, persay. But a gift of her favorite treat will definitely butter her up a little more and we'll be needing a favour," Ander explained, before bracing himself for what would come next. The point of the knife entered his arm and instantly spread pain through it. He winced but didn't make any sound. Even though it took a great amount of mental resolve to stab oneself with a knife, Ander had faced worse before. A bloody chip came out with the blade and he let out a sharp exhale, leaning back with clear relief.
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Kenna came out of the bathroom with a box of bandages and swallowed at the sight of Andy at the table. She bit the edge of her bottom lip as she set them on the table and said, "I'll grab the first aid kit," as she went back into the bathroom. That way he'd be able to clean his wound before fixing it up.
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Ander acknowledged her with a nod. She's got guts. He picked up the chip and crushed it, dropping the shards of tech down the drain and turning on the faucet to wash it down. He let the water run over his hand before wetting a cloth and pressing it to the throbbing knife wound.
Reaching over for the bandages on the table, he hastily tied it over his wound. Scarlet blood blossomed in the snowy white cotton bandages. It was beautiful in a sadistic way. He washed the blade before turning the faucet off, tucking the knife back into his belt. "Ready to head out?" -
"Yeah, I think I've got a good amount of stuff," Kenna said, coming back into the kitchen and setting the assortment of things she had gathered on the table. "I found the cookies, the first aid kit, let's put the rest of the bandages in here just in case, bungee cords, I'm not exactly sure why you have them, but I have a feeling they might come in handy, you know how you just get those gut feelings..." she continued listing off things she'd grabbed that she thought might be useful, making sure there wasn't anything that Andy thought they needed or maybe there was something she'd grabbed that was unnecessary. She wasn't exactly sure who this friend of his was or what the situation they were going to be would be, so she wouldn't be upset if Andy threw a few things out of the small pile she'd accumulated.
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*Actually, she wouldn't be bothered if he just said to put everything she'd gathered back away, since he hadn't actually told her to grab anything except for cookies and bandages.
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Lol true))
Ander sorted through the pile with a swift hand, eliminating several items with gentle criticism. "Utensils will take up space, we only need a few," he explained, moving a few into the "not taking" pile. He finally narrowed down the pile to the cookies, bandages, bungee cords, first aid kit, small bundle of utensils, rope, a few knives, a small package of food and two filled water bottles. "We only need a little bit of food. I know how to find more out here." He paused for a moment. "Call me 'Ander'."
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