Littma starred blankly forward before he could reply, "Oh-kay... and what is it that you want that of all people you need me for? All I knew was just burned to the ground so whatever you want from me is now gone lady." At the last word she gave him a really mean look, now it was meaner than mean but to say what it looked like would break his promise to his mother of never using foul language.
"Trust me." Was all she said. Great, that was loads of help. The coals around them were dieing due to the wind that gusted from the woods. Littma pulled the woman's cloak around him to keep him warm. What the hell am I going to do now for goodness sake. I can't even begin to count the freaking number of holes in his clothes, I'm surprised I still have any. "You didn't really answer my question, why does my bracelet matter to you? It's just a bracelet, it isn't going to help you in any way to look for what you want."
"Yes it will." She really wasn't helpful. Heck, she didn't even look like she was from this planet for the matter. The clothes she wore barely covered her besides her knee-high socks... or four? She wore glovelettes that went to almost her shoulders. I don't know what to call her shirt, if that's even what is was. It looked nothing more than straps cover just enough of her upper body to not... expose anything. And short shorts, how on earth was she not cold? Even her cloak was barely a cloak, it had sleeves to it but they hung by threads. Who was she, this Leyexeris?
More importantly, where was he going to sleep? Who knows what time of day it was, if it were night he couldn't stay here because of the wolves in the woods. Crud. He had to ask, and worst of all to a stranger that he was indebted to now. "Do you by chance so happen to have somewhere I can stay until I can get back onto my feet?"
Leyexeris gave the boy a confused look, but she couldn't blame him. She was standing on what was left of his home and whatever things he had. "You are on your feet and no I don't have anywhere that you can stay, I believe the term is rogue?" The boy began laughing at her, or at what she said. It did not matter. "What is so funny?" The boy tried to regain composure and completely failed to do so. "I believe you are a bit behind the times, you couldn't be a rogue, you are far too kind."
"You would be very surprised child." The boy, Littma was it? Looked at her strangely as he often has been since he stopped coughing. "Child? I think I'm a lot older than you. You can't be but a few years older than a teenager. I've been an adult and taking care of my mother for five years now." She thought he would rant on but his face turned pale as he mentioned his mother, who was most likely under her feet at the moment but she didn't dare to check.
"No, I believe I know myself much more than you do. I'm most likely older than your great grandfather by far seeing how that bracelet seems to have been passed down your family instead of the original owner taking it to their grave." Now he looked really puzzled. She couldn't help but smile.
Alright, this chick had to be insane or something. She found some way to turn her hair that grayish white color, maybe it was a bunch of horse hair? Whatever it was it wasn't her natural color and this chick was nuts. "Yep, it was passed down through my family as some old tradition that I can't even remember. So that means our families totally knew each other hundreds of years ago and out of the blue here you are to save my life because of some bracelet on my wrist that I can't take off anymore. Yep. So instead of helping you find whatever your looking for I'm off."
Littma took off her cloak and dropped it into the ash, grabbed his satchel and swung it over his shoulder and started walking away on the edge of the woods. There was no way he was staying at some crazy girls place, especially by the fact she was a younger girl and well she was crazy. She might kill him in his sleep or something. Hopefully the neighboring village wasn't burned to the ground too and he could get a change of clothes there. If not it was going to be a freaking cold night.
"Surely you don't want me to tell you about your bracelet now do you?" And then it was the crazy lady again. She must have been a freaking ninja or something, he didn't hear her come up behind him and then he looked to the side of him and figured out why. She was on the bird thing and the wind masked the sound of it flying. Yea he wanted to know but this was all too much at once. He needed to find somewhere to stay.
Illiana smiled to herself as she looked through her mind's eye at the scene before her. Everything was beginning to come together. Her pawn came out of hiding at long last, if only she could hear what she had to say after hiding away for all these years and jumping into this new world. How must it feel to be so alienated in every way? Even the fellow she is following doesn't want to deal with her and oh how obvious it was.
Perfect, in every way. "Lovely how my pet's pet causes so much wonderful things to happen." She said as she stroked a mans head as he sat on the floor beside her. The man looked up at her and smiled. Illiana's response was a firm slap to the face. "Don't look at me unless I tell you too! ...Perhaps now is the time to finally act? No. Not now. But soon."
Leyexeris froze for a moment, it felt like someone ran a piece of ice down her spine. She shook it off, it was probably from the fact she just draped her cloak over Snow and took off. She'd put it on when the boy ran out of energy and had to stop. Hopefully it was soon.
"Did you know that you are actually correct about our families being entwined? But of course for mine its not much compared to what yours must be since it has been quite a few generations." The boy just seemed to keep trying to ignore her. He seemed to being a good job of it too. She had to convince him he was able to help her, no... that he needed to help her.
"What if I told you that you can't take it off because it is magically bound to you?" He didn't bother to stop to speak. "Yea, sure. It has nothing to do with the fact that my wrist is rather large now compared to the bracelet. It has nothing to do with magic." She had Snow cut in front of him and all around them stood still. "Yes it does."
Littma froze still as the find suddenly stopped and the trees didn't continue to sway. Ok, crazy lady was rubbing her craziness on him or he was hallucinating from fire fumes and how has he not dead? Where did his burns go? There was no way he could have came out of that fire without any burns on his skin, yet there were none. Every step should be completely painful, but it wasn't. None of this made any sense.
"Alright, and what if I believe this bracelet is magical and all oh powerful? What does that have to deal with you and what you are looking for? And why won't you tell me what it is? Why the heck does it matter anyway. Thank you for saving my life and all but this is more than I can take." He walked around the girl and her bird and kept heading towards the next village. Just focus on one thing at a time. Even if time seems to have stopped.
Leyexeris slowly got off Snow. How could she convince him when he wouldn't even listen to her? He did hear what she said but he simply did not listen. Granted yes his family most likely just died with everything he had but that is just life. She could try forcing him to help her but that was a lot effort and energy when she can just wait it out. He would eventually see things as they really were.
"What if I were to teach you how to use the magic? It could benefit you, help you. Help me help you which will eventually help me in turn." Perhaps she had said that wrong? But it was very true. He was all she had left. "Sure, whatever. Now can you leave me be? Unless of course you could maybe fix my home too and bring my mom back." Actually she could but that didn't make it right. Especially when there was no way to truly avoid death after you have already died. "No but I'm sure I could help you passed this tragedy of yours."
The boy looked at her for a moment before looking forward again. he walked at a very fast pace making it hard to keep in step with him, his height over her didn't help either. Did she really look so young? And then it hit her. "What if you could save thousands of others from the fate you almost had? What if you could save this world with the gift on your wrist. Would that be too much to ask in exchange of some time with me and a few lessons?"