Page 30 of Heart Shaped Wreckage
We made our way around the base of the mountain, and I sat Kevin back down on his feet. He reached down and took my hand, and we walked together. His hand in mine felt natural. It was an odd feeling for me. But it also felt right.
“What is that?” He pointed. Fire did not shoot out of his hand, but he pointed to a small cliff face in front of us that was pouring some sparkling substance.
“That looks like a waterfall, but it’s not.”
“No, that is sand. So what? Do we just walk through it?” He sounded frightened, and I didn’t blame him. It was freaky as shit.
“I suppose we do. The valley must be hidden behind it somehow.”
We stepped forward and stood in front of the sandfall. The tiny grains seemed to move off into nothing as they fell from the cliffs. We held our breath and together took the step through the falling grains of sand. It felt like having sandpaper rub against our bodies as we quickly moved through it.
I spat sand from my mouth and shook my hair as we stepped out of the sandfall and into a rocky garden filled with the strangest plants I had ever seen. How did they grow here without any water? A swirling pool of sand, almost like the top of an hourglass, sat in the middle. Fucking magic... The sand even had a current that you could actually see. I didn’t look forward to jumping into it.
“There are rocks everywhere.” He looked like he had already failed. “Do you know what the seeking stones are?”
“No clue. But to find them, we have to seek, I guess. I assume that they’ll do nothing for me and will only show themselves to you. They must have some kind of magic that’s akin to the power of human witches.”
“Hecate? They must belong to Hecate.”
“Thoth is also a god of magic in ancient Egypt. Perhaps all witch power comes from the great pantheon of all witch powers. I honestly don’t know.” I shrugged and let go of his hand. “I’ll walk with you, but I think you should go slow.”
Slow it was. Jesus, our feet hurt – Kevin never stopped complaining, but there was nothing I could do. He alone would awake the stones, so he must be looking. But he was right. There were stones everywhere. It was like looking for a single grain of rice in a field of rice.
“We are never going to find these stupid stones,” Kevin sounded exasperated.
“Well… Maybe you should look down,” I chuckled, feeling a great sense of relief. A blue stone glowed on the ground with a faint light.
Kevin bent down and held it in his hand. The stone’s light grew, and Kevin held it aloft as he tightened his hand around it.
“I can feel it.” He laughed loudly. “It’s like it’s trying to communicate with me, but I can’t understand what it means.”
He held the stone, and the blue light shone across the other rocks. A hundred feet away, a glimmer caught his eye, and he ran off quickly. I followed behind and stayed by his side. If a pissed off angel fell through the sky, I wanted to be there to protect him.
Kevin picked up another stone, and it turned pink in his hand. It’s light intermingled with the other, and the light changed to a bright purple. Kevin laughed happily as he held them out for me to see.
“They want to be found. I can feel them thrum with power, I just don’t know what it is they do, yet. But I will. I know I will. They have been waiting for me.” He jumped in glee. “Maybe this will unlock my memories?”
“Perhaps. But I think that will come at the end of the quest. Most things do.”
“Wait… I feel it.” He walked over to the edge of a cave and nodded to me. “I’m supposed to go inside. I think I’m supposed to go alone.”
“Are you sure?”
“No… But that’s what I feel. It’s like the rocks are guiding me somehow.”
“I don’t like this.” I put my hand on the small of his back.
“I’m scared too. But I think I have to.” He bit his bottom lip and looked up at me.
“If something happened to you, I’d…” I could feel the blush light my skin on fire.
“Ah… You care. I feel the same way. I think I have since the moment I met you.” He pressed his head into my shoulder.
His admission made me flush harder. It also made my cock jump in my pants. “Fine. I’ll be here to guard the entrance, and if you need me, yell. I’ll come running.”
“I know you will.”
He entered the small cavern carefully. Within a few steps, all I could see was the dull glow of his purple light. Within a few seconds, he completely disappeared.
