Chase or Spare?

"Just... get out of my sight," Klautz turned around but not before he gave off another scoff at the poor boy. With a leap he disappeared among the burning bushes.

*Cough*

Smoke invaded Stefan's nostrils. He was left all alone in the middle of the burning forest fire. His shoulder was still bleeding profusely as he was losing more and more blood every minute. 

"I can understand her pain, that's why," he whispered under his breath as he watched Klautz disappear among the fires.

'Why do you want to save that girl that badly?' That is what Klautz had asked him but he had failed to reply. But now that Klautz was no more around the reply as if came out of his very heart! Did he hope that his message would reach Klautz by some magical medium? No...

His words were for no one hear, for no one to reason out with, they were to console his own bleeding heart, to remind himself that what he had done was right!