Conscious

I just stare at him in disbelief. I want to be mad at him from keeping this from me but he must have a reason. "Why did you keep this from me?"

"I wanted to be safe and plus, you seemed stressed when you got better from taking so much time off to get better and my main concern was keeping you safe and making sure you get better while you were still dying on me, so I just didn't think to tell you to not concern you while you were healing and then checking up on lost time."

"I'm glad that you were concerned for me…"

I went to speak more when Hope and Lukus comes running into the room. Hope hides behind Everett and Lukus hides behind me. I pull out my gun and Everett gets his bow ready. We don't hear anything but from the fear on the kids face, there is something out there. 

"What did you see, honey?" Everett asks Hope.

"There was something behind us and it was speaking to us. Dad, do you know what it was?"

"I don't but me and Uncle M will find out."

"Stay here you two." I add on as I step out of the room. 

Something feels off in the living room. Everett goes left as I go right. We don't go far to be safe but we go a little bit to make sure nothing is there. After a little while, I hear something speak to me. I turn around and fire my gun, but there was nothing there. Was I hearing things?

"Mallvack! What happened?" Everett comes running up to me to see what happened.

"There was a voice in my ear so I just shot." I am still holding my gun up, ready to fire just in case.

"You seem quiet on edge."

"I am. Now I understand why they were scared. I just need to know where this most likely god is. It probably knows that I messed with its photos."

"Most likely but it might know why we are here so we should be careful."

"What even is the god? That would help with killing it if it is invisible like it seems to be."

"From the room and what we thought it was before, we know it's not human, I wouldn't say life, intelligence, nor universe. From the pictures I would say…" When I was about to say what god I think it is, I heard it again. I go to shoot where I hear it when I point my gun at Everett. I just stare at him in shock and he stares at me in disbelief.

"Please tell me that you heard the god and you aren't thinking about killing me."

"I did." I lower my gun slightly. 

"So what god do you think we are dealing with?'

"Conscious."

"I could see that." 

Everett turns and fires an arrow. Looks like we are both hearing it. He grabs his arrow as we both go back to looking around. We both keep shooting at nothing. I see that I am about to run out of bullets and Everett's arrows are bending.

"We shouldn't fire anymore until we can see it. Clearly just firing when we hear it isn't working."

"Clearly. At this rate I wouldn't have any arrows left soon."

"And I am running out of bullets."

I look at the death door when I get kind of a dumb idea. "When this god talks into our head, is it in us?"

"I don't know. I wouldn't think so. I would think that it is more like leaning over your shoulder. Why do you ask?"

"I was just thinking about something."

We both stay quiet for a second. "What do you think will happen after this? I mean we have killed life so how will that affect the world?"

I look at Everett with surprise. Why is he thinking of this now? We are this deep into this. "I don't know. I guess the world is probably in chaos right now if the gods are the only thing that makes those things happen. I never thought about it until now. Why are you worrying about that?" This is when I see that he seems to be in some kind of hypnotic trance. I walk up to him. I start trying to wake him up; I shake him, snap in his ears and in front of his face, and I poke him. I don't want to hurt him but I might have to, to wake him up from what trace he is in. 

Hope soon comes out of the room. I can see her tearing up as she sees me shaking Everett.

"Dad. Uncle M. What's happening?"

"Your dad will be fine. I promise you, he will be. I am just dealing with this. I think a god is in him."

"What?" Hope runs up to Everett and hugs his leg. I can see how scared she is and I see Lukus come out of the room as well. Seeing both of their fears in their eyes hurt and the only thing I can think to do is stupid but it's my best luck, so I might as well.

"Kids, go back into the room. I will be there soon."

"What are you going to do?" Lukus looks at me concerned.

"Don't worry. Just get back into the room." They both reenter the room.

I grab one of Everett's bent arrows and I put it through his arm. I can see him bleeding. I wrap up his arm after carefully taking out the arrow. I'm so glad that he grabbed all of the medical supplies needed and more. Everett starts moving slightly before stopping. He falls down and I check him as I slowly sit down with him on my lap.

"Shit, shit, shit, shit." I mumble to myself. I can still feel his heart rate and his breathing so I know he is alive but I just stabbed him and he isn't moving.

Hope and Lukus come out soon after and I pretend that nothing is wrong.

"Hey kiddos. Right now he is just asleep. I was able to deal with it." I am lying but I hope they don't realize. Hope lays down on Everett. "Lukus come here. Let's all take a break right now." I open my right arm for Lukus. Lukus lays down on my chest. We all soon fall asleep. I just hope when I wake, Everett will be fine and this can all just be a dream. After all, I can't lose him. I need him to know that I love him. When this is all over I will tell him.