Night-Mare

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Night-Mare

Chapter 5

Steven looked around the camp. There were people making new settlements, people preparing meals, people tending the wounded. Even Quinn was helping a group of people pull up the wall to a new thatch hut. "What do you do Leo? Really? I mean, no offense, but you don't look like them," Steven said motioning towards the other survivors.

Compared to the muscular fighters and long-legged hunters, Leo looked more like a reptile than a person. He was scrawny and lanky, alternated between the energy of a child on stimulants and a drowsy carbonemys, and he had the smile of a baryonyx about to pounce on its prey, but despite all that, he was clever, quickwitted, and probably the most likeable person Steven had met here, with Quinn being a close second.

Leo continued cleaning his spear and responded without looking up. "I told you, moral support." He didn't have his usually completley light-hearted tone. He seemed a little irritated by the question.

Steven leaned forward. "You okay?" he asked.

Leo looked up and flashed a smile. "Perfectly fine," he said, putting away the spear, "I just don't have a set title here."

He stood up and walked from under the tarp that protected them from the gray drizzle, all the water the sky could spare. Quinn, Roman, and a guy Steven hadn't met were walking towards them. "Leo," Quinn called. She had a grim look on her face. "We need to talk."

"Alright," Leo said, wiping his hands on a cloth. "What is it?"

Quinn cast a sidelong glance towards Steven before giving Leo a nervous look. "Elliott is missing."

Leo let out a heavy breath. "Okay… why are-"

"He had the lantern."

The confusion on Leo's face gave way to a dark look. He turned and looked back to the dark frorest in the distance. "The sun is about to set. The horseman's call has already gone out, she'll be on the hunt now."

"Which is why I came to you."

"But I can't-"

"I'll take care of the lantern," Roman said. "We'll only need you if she makes an appearance."

Leo looked around at faces around him for a moment before sighing. "I'll get my cloak."

~CL1

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