Smart Thinking

“Open up!”

And then somebody banged the entry of the tent.

“OPEN!”

“Ice cream head, go open”, she whispered.

“Seriously?”

“Obviously”

I walked slowly to the entry, hoping Suhani would change her mind. But it was already too late, I was already at the entry. My fingers caught the zip, “OPEN!” came the sound from outside.

As I moved the fabric aside a huge shadow surrounded me. My first intuition, ‘Giant’. But then I saw more huge figures beside them.

“Those gargles?”, I heard Yui whisper

“You saw two kids running past here”, one of them spoke.

“Kids?”, I fumbled, “no why?”

“Get aside you brainless prehistoric elephants”, the huge, whatever they were separated. A figure walked out of the shadow, “are you sure you didn’t see?”.

The lady had long purple hair, her eyes weren't exactly black, it was rather as if I was staring into a deep abyss and I couldn’t look into them for more than a moment. She had scars on her cheek and a few could be coming out of the sleeves down till the wrist. She was wearing a black and red armour. I tried to speak, but all that came out of my mouth was, “Abba-baba-ba-dog”.

“What?”, she hissed.

OOPS

Somebody pulled me back from my shoulder, “yes?”Brio spoke, taking charge, and I could not express how grateful I was to him.

“Why is that girl staring at me, do I have to gauge her eyes out?”, Abaddon pointed at Suhani.

“Oh”, Brio spoke, “she has this problem with her eyes you know, she isn’t staring it just seems she is”, Brio spoke looking back and forth between Suhani and Abaddon, “so anyways how can I help you folks?”

“Well”, the lady hissed, and stared at each one of us turn by turn, “did you see two kids around here?”

“Oh”, Brio spoke, looking surprised, “we’re just the four of us here”, motioned towards us, “do any of us happen to fill into the description of the person you’re looking for”.

Abaddon took her sweet time to stare at us, “no”, she decided after a while, “we must have been mistaken”.

“Oh, I understand. Not an issue, mistakes do happen”, Brio nodded cheerfully.

“I’ll be seeing you later”, she stared at us one last time and then slowly walked away. Alph poked his head out from behind his bunk, “get back in”, Suhani hissed, “they will be back”.

And she did! Abaddon poked her head through the entry and her bloodshot eyes scanned the tent.

Then as if pleased with herself, she grinned nastily and pulled away. We stood transfixed for a moment as the footsteps faded away, “what on earth did the two of you do?!”, Suhani frowned. Dream and Alph crawled out from where they were hiding.

We huddled together as Dream and Alph narrated their incident, occasionally filling in each other's parts, “so”, Suhani said, “let me get this straight, you think they are going to go for the Topaz tonight”, she spoke adding extra emphasis on tonight.

“Like I said, we were hiding right behind them and we caught every word they said”.

“Did you hear anything else?”

“Well, if it makes a difference they also said they had reinforcements coming in”.

“It was stupid of you to follow Abbadon”, Suhani spoke softly.

“Well”, Alph exclaimed, “we made it out didn’t we”.

“We need a plan”, Dream decided, “Bracer?”

“Me? No! Why are you looking at me”, I turned to look, all the eyes in the room were glued to me, “woah, guys!”.

“You got us till here”, Alph argued, “it's only right you take us further”.

“I got trapped by Orbino, then I got us trapped again by Cappy and then I almost got Colt killed”.

“You’re right”, Suhani snapped, “you’ve been stupid, which is obviously an overexaggerated under exagguration-”

“Not helping”, I whispered.

“But for some God damn reason Flame trusts you- so it's only right you get to decide what happens”.

“You got us out from the ship”, Yui spoke, one of the rare instances she did. “Without you we wouldn’t have escaped from the island either”, Alph added.

“Now can we stop wasting time, we are out of time”, Suhani snapped, “do you have a plan or you don’t”.

“Well”, I spoke, “now that you’re asking, I do have an idea”.

“Shoot”

“We steal the Topaz before the pirate squad does and get the hell out of here”.

They gasped- “Gosh”, Suhani spoke, looking at me wide eyed, “when did you get yourself a brain?”.