"Run!!!!" The people scattered and dispersed as quickly and swiftly as possible, as a black horse with deep red eyes ran forward and stopped beside the old woman.
The old woman touched her,and tried to calm her down. The people became surprised at this, no more running, but everyone held their heels in motion, in case they would have to put it into use!
"See, my HARI ! She is pregnant! She needs to deliver!"
The people muttered and sighed. Cassey was taken aback.
"I will be damned."
Yet again, there was a shout out from the crowd
"Mad! Mad you are! I have wasted precious times here! times enough to make enough sales!"
Another woman Joined in the protest, another joins, yet another, disgusted and annoyed, and most of all disappointed at the turn out,as they were all waiting for something big. They lamented and one by one, they all went away, leaving Cassey and the old woman alone
"What did you just do? A show? Exhibition?"
"My baby needs help, you scum!"
"She is due for a young?"
"Mmmm."
"She is beautiful. I can help her… We need to find a safe good place for her." Cassey touched her, and the horse got cool,flicked her tails and showed the beauty of her deep red eyes as it Turned to deep moon Blue!
Cassey backed away, transfixed and bewildered. The old woman didn't seem too surprised as him, but she couldn't explain what just happened to the young lad
"She can't thank you enough"
The old woman seemed fulfilled now. As if she has finally found what she had been looking for.
"Huh????"
"You're kind boy. Now let's go"
"Go ,go where?" Stammered Cassey
"The safe good place?"
Cassey was still shocked, he couldn't get out of this.
"Hey! Cassey!" yelled Allen, waving at Cassey coming near
"Hey, I have been looking for you,mama Said you came down the road..so ...I…."
"Come on,let's go,we need to get out of here."
He grabbed Allen by the hand, with heist and just when they were about to move, the old woman muttered to herself
"Him ... they..They by fate? the one…."
The two boys stood together, and the sun shone so bright behind them, making them "shine" ...just for a moment in the eyes of the old woman
"Huh?"Seemed that a bit was heard, but they never minded
"Okay, Okay, whatever,let's go, just don't startle me again"
"Haha ,yea? Just the beginning…" Said the old woman mischievously
"What?"
"Let's Go."
****
Mama paced around the living room, she was worried that Cassey wasn't back, and Allen hadn't been seen either. And just as she was clinging on her worry, someone knocked at the door
She heard the throbbing of a horse and a shout from outside. She rushed to the door, high on anxiety and opened the door to a young gentleman. Stepping down from his horse, he was a messenger.
"I believe this is Harold's home, right?"
"Hey? Who are you?" She was somewhat more worried, thinking that this have something to do with Cassey
"Is it?" The messenger asked again, ignoring Mama's blow-back question
"Oh yes! Yes, is there any Problem? Would you like to come in?"
"Oh, no thanks, this be a brief meeting. heading to the wastelands"
Mama got baffled, like waste lands?! She Looked him over and over again
"Wastelands? Why? Who has any business with the wastelands"
"The unseen. The unknown…"
"So what brings you to krinxville?" Ignoring his blaabs, like who cares
"I am here to deliver a letter, from HACK HAROLD"
Surprised, her face brightened like she just won a village lottery for fruits, or better more
"Good lord! Hack????! He hasn't written in a decade! No one knows where or even if he lives…"
The messenger handed over the letter
"Now he writes. said is of the utmost and urgent importance."
"Has been always. Hack? Hmmm….but this is the first "urgent importance"
The gentleman hopped on his horse and ride away. Mama looked around to see if she would sight the boys. She nodded her head, and entered inside.
"I'm gonna whip his ass...for real." She stopped to think for some seconds
"Hack???" Staring down at the letter on her hand.
****
The old woman had somehow convinced Cassey and Allen to still follow her to the "safe good place" but the boys walked with their hearts on their palms.
They walked through greenlands along a country side, getting deeper and deeper, and more far away from Krinxville, But Cassey wasn't comfortable.
"Where are you taking us?" Questioned Cassey, feeling vulnerable
"Is a secret." Answered the old woman
Cassey and Allen exchanged glances with confusion, but Cassey was now uneasy, and had to be a man
"No no no,we are stopping here. And that's it, we ain't going no further. Thank you."
The old woman stopped, glanced at the boys,such contempt in their eyes,she nodded her head and started walking ahead, not minding them, if there was anything she needed them for, it had been done.
"You can go home"
Feeling relieved, Cassey didn't hesitate to say goodbye
"Bye…" But it quickly occurred to him that...
"Ohh Hari still needs to give birth right?"
"It is done. We will be in a safe good place...from now on,all thanks to you young blood"
"Okay… and what about the young one?"
Cassey felt concerned, but that was when Allen came in
"Come on, let's go"
The old woman turned and smiled, and as if it was all like a dream, what the boys had never seen nor witnessed in their lives, what could only be possible in their dream, came live to reality, and it came as a shock, a super shock
Blue light like lightning flashed in her eyes with zizzles, and in an instant, She disappeared! With Hari. This would be their first mystical experience for many to come.
The boys took to their heels, running as fast as they could,not looking back,not stopping. And as they ran,they realized that they had really come a long way, as it took them a great deal of time to reach where they identified as Krinxville.
Allen tripped over a carved out root, and fell to the ground, Cassey helped him up and they continued running
"Come on,get up let's Go!"
As they reached….they stopped to rest by a tree. Both trembling in fear and panting excessively. Allen managed to say something while trying to catch his breath
"W..what was that?! I nearly gave up the ghost!"
"I have seen enough today" Trying to hold his breath,couldn't stop holding his chest from the excessive beat of the heart, like big drums in an empty hall
"What do you mean?"
"I mean,early on ,the horse,it was all beaming with this deep red eyes…"
"And…?"
"And umm,it suddenly changed when I touched it,and umm I think no one saw it."
"Wow! Just wow! look at you, What do you think you are?! You followed her still after what you saw?! She's a witch !"
"I . I just didn't know,I just felt close and somehow connected…. somehow,I just can't tell."
"You were possessed…...are you still?" concluded Allen, as if he knew everything and anything about witchcraft. Cassey became slightly embarrassed
"Didn't say that. Well let no one know of this. I need to go eat ,you coming?"
Allen bursted out to a hefty ton of laughter and seriousness
"Eat? You are getting grounded boy"
Now,it seemed that Cassey has gotten back to his senses. Mama wasn't going to be happy with him.
"What?" Asked Cassey, knowing too well that he was in for big trouble, even if he didn't get it as soon as he reached home, he will definitely get it, as long as he was at home.