The Arks: Over Heaven

Chapter 7: Night Hunters Strike

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Both Neddy and Ruby arrived back at the campsite to the site of Aurora staring at the stars and Samuel dozing away. Samuel’s dodo bird had her head perched on Samuel’s leg.

“Aurora,” Ruby called out softly. Aurora looked back at Ruby blankly. Neddy felt a chill go down his back, out of everything here on this island, Aurora scared him the most. Smarter, stronger, and better in every way, Aurora had the capability to turn her back on them all if she wanted to.

“I remember her in her freshman and sophomore years. So kind and generous. But now she’s… Different,” Neddy thought deep in his head as they approached Aurora, “I guess that’s what happens when the person closest to you is taken away from your life.”

“You have the materials, both of you?” Aurora asked with a raised eyebrow and a snidely look. Ruby reached into her pouch, but as she felt around her eyes widened. She gasped.

“OMG, I totally forgot about that! I was-”

“What do you mean you forgot?!” Aurora sneered, getting up from the ground and walking up to Ruby, “Do you not know how to follow directions? They were plain and simple. Collect firewood so we can start a fire to keep warm. Are you stupid?”

“She’s not stupid!” Neddy shouted, putting his arm out in front of Ruby. Aurora glanced at Neddy, and then back at Ruby with contempt. She took a step back. Neddy reached into his own pouch that Ruby had made for him and took out a few small logs of wood, and many handfuls of thatch.

“It’s fine anyway. I got the materials,” Neddy noted. Aurora grumbled and snatched the wood out of Neddy’s hand. She gave it to Ruby, who grabbed it complacently.