Across the border – Book I - 9 Chapter

Sussan looked around her and found a water stream nearby. She started walking towards it but David held her hand and stopped her.

“Where do you think you are going alone?” David asked with frustration.

He thought she could leave him any time she wants and he needs to live in constant fear of her leaving. This made David really mad at her and he held her wrist tightly.

“David, you are hurting me, so leave my hand. I am not going anywhere without you. I just saw the stream nearby and wanted to get some water for us. It is a tiring journey and I am thirsty.” Sussan understood his fear but did not show it on her face while she tried to explain patiently.

“Why am I here for then? If you need anything, just tell me and I will do anything for you. I will go and get the water, so give me the pouch” David said.

Sussan sighed and gave the magical pouch to David and reminded him that, “Before you can fill, do not be so impatient and hurt the pouch. It is just a baby”.

The baby pouch yawned and blinked his eyes. Seeing that David is the one holding him and not Sussan, it started crying.

Sussan immediately took the pouch and gave a pinch of Asher’s dust. Then it became happy and opened its wide mouth to show that it is ready to fill the water.

Brenda got up from where she was sitting and came to the arguing couple.

“You guys cannot live a day without arguing. Come on, let us go” Brenda moved forward towards the stream.

From where they stood the stream looked near but once they started moving, it felt like the stream was moving further away from them. It made them blink at each other. They kept on walking for more than half an hour but the place where the stream was not any nearer to them anymore.

They all sat on the huge rock to rest before they could start once again. But the moment they sat down, the rock started moving and lifted off the ground.

It flapped its wings and they were all pushed into the center and were carried in the air. David tried to hold its huge neck but was pushed backward, so Sussan held one of the wings in one hand and the other she held David. Brenda held the other wing.

When they were high in the air they saw the stream below them and it is not a normal stream, it’s a flying stream. It moved around and they couldn’t see the end of the stream.

The bird flew above the stream, as they saw that it was the only option everyone jumped into the stream. But what they did not realize was that the stream was super hot and not a cold stream. Luckily, the stream moved away again and they fell on a giant leaf.

But what they did not expect was that the giant leaf rolled and closed itself and pulled them along with it under the ground.

They felt like they were going down a giant slide and it was like forever and there is no end to it. They started doubting if there will ever be any ground.

In the meantime, the plant jumped back up and the whole place looked very peaceful with no calamities around. The place looked like it came out of the picture and was very attractive once again.

Sussan and Brenda’s scream echoed around them and David tried his best to hold the walls around him. But every time he tried to hold on, the solid wall turned into jelly. He held the mud jelly in his hand and threw it hard in front of him.

Sussan felt like she got hit with a small stone on her head. So she turned and saw what David was trying to do and couldn’t stop laughing.

“Ha Ha Ha… what are you doing, David?” Sussan asked after noticing his distressed face.

“Can’t you see I am trying to hold onto something to stop from sliding?” David replied coldly; because of his inability to stop all these without his magical powers.

“It is ok, cool down. It is not like we can do anything when we are surrounded by ‘Necticsand’. You cannot control them even with magic. They will show us our ways to the right land. Let us just allow the ‘Necticsand’ to guide us” Sussan explained to David which made him relax.

Later David realized that this was the first time after so long that Sussan laughed wholeheartedly. After the rules established by the military and they started fleeing, there was not even a single day went by without tears in her eyes.

Brenda tried to look up but suddenly she saw a bright light that is brighter than the ‘Asher’ star blind her eyes.

“Cover your eyes and ears,” Brenda shouted loudly.

Sussan and David took a cloth and tied it on their eyes along the way blocking their ears.

“Looks like the ‘Necticsand’ is falling apart. Something huge is happening outside” saying that Brenda took a board from her bag and drew a few lines which in turn created a Dinghy.

Brenda shouted, “Come on! Jump you both!”

Sussan and David jumped one after another into the Dinghy, Brenda gave them the paddle as the sand entered her eyes and ears by the time everyone jumped into the Dinghy.

Once the ‘Necticsand’ ended they realized that they entered the stream which they missed out before.

Sussan made the Dinghy magical, so it was able to take the heat radiated by the hot stream.

While they were traveling across the stream they realized that the water was turning cold. When they looked around the place, it looked different and they soon realized that they left ‘Secare’ forest.

They paddled the boat and reached the shore.