Page 27 of Heart Shaped Wreckage
“Tomorrow? I think I need to think about what we heard and try to start making sense out of it for myself. Is that ok?”
“Do you have magic?”
“Besides, shifting? Not like you. But whatever I once was is a pale comparison to what I am.”
“There. That makes it hard to wait for you to tell me. You’re cryptic.”
“I’m being safe. I promised you I’d keep you safe no matter what.”
“I know, and I know you will. I just don’t understand why.”
“Why does there need to be a why? It just is. I took you in and promised you that I would. Besides, now our fates are intertwined, and that was… Well, that had to be planned.”
“What do you mean?”
“A prophecy is just words until the people who are involved hear them. Whatever happened to you, it… You were placed in my path, Kevin. We were totally set up.”
I shivered at the thought. “I think that I… I have this memory of being pulled the same way that I felt when we wound up here. It was like a hook in my stomach that turned me inside out.”
“Yeah. I figured if Denzu was around, his paws were all over it.” He sighed.
“I am sure that I have never known who he is. We’re not friends. Something tells me that I have never known him. So, why did he bring me there? Why did he even come to find me?”
“Maybe he wanted the prophecy to come true?” He shrugged. “Cats are weird.”
“Says the part canine.”
“True.” He pulled out a long stick and slowly slid it through the rabbit, and then he set it on the fire. “It will cook fast. We’ll need to flip it.”
“You promise that you never saw me before?” I asked, hoping for a different answer. It wasn’t that I thought he lied – I just hoped he was trying to spare me some pain.
“Not that I know of.”
“Then why is the prophecy about the two of us? Two people who have never seen each other before… It’s… It makes no sense.”
“I know. It’s… If Denzu and the Crone are involved, and I had no idea that is who Judy actually was, by the way, then it’svery old magic at play. That prophecy might have had to come true. It’s… I’ve never really cared about that kind of thing. I just wanted to live a quiet life.”
“I bet I did. I seem like the kind of person who would be a stay-at-home kind of guy, don’t you think?”
“You could be the life of the party? Who knows?”
“I don’t think so. I think I’m usually scared most of the time. I mean, I’ve been scared all day.” I admitted it. It felt good to confide in him. If we were in this together, he needed to know that I had almost shit my pants more than one time today.
“Well, you were pulled through an interdimensional gap by a cat who transcends time after being attacked by a sword-wielding angel, so… I think that being scared makes sense.”
“You weren’t.”
He frowned. “I was totally freaked out. Did you hear his voice and see the way the door blew inwards?”
“You just knocked it aside as if someone threw a twig at you.”
“You said yourself I have big muscles.”
I threw my arms up in the air and turned the rabbit over. This was not going anywhere, and I understood in some ways why. “Alright, I will wait until tomorrow. Your truth is yours to tell. I just hope that you tell me before it's too late.”
“I will.” He nodded incredibly seriously. His face was all scrunched up, and it made him even hotter. Life was not fair. What would he ever want with an amnesiac who may or may not be the cause of a catastrophe? Maybe I was the one who was causing all this trouble. Maybe that’s why I had no memory. I wanted to say this out loud to just get it out there. But I had a right to my secrets as well.
We ate the rabbit and lay down at the back of the very small cavern that he had found to keep us out of the elements. The wind howled around the entrance, but thankfully, it wasn’t blowing inside.
