Hmm, you know what?
I feel like, there is a problem here.
My hand grip on the ground, trying to help me push up another time. Feeling the comfortable burn in my arms, I pull my head up and focus my eyes on the person in front of me.
Above me.
Annie
She look at me, blink, and look around with the gaze of someone that wonder why I'm staring at her like that.
"Boop"
The fuck she said? Is that a distraction? A super duper skilled distraction to make me forget about this little grain of feeling that's building in me?
The one that scream that there is a problem?
Somewhere? Around me? But I didn't even thought about it since then?
Is she a master manipulator!?
Or maybe I could just ask her.
"What?"
Sighing she wave her hands around "nothing nothing, why are you staring at me like I killed your childrens though?"
Sounds like something a master manipulator would say. Annie is dangerous. Really dangerous...but she also ask great questions
The answer to said question is obviously my suspicion!
Pumping the ground again, and again, and again, my eyes roam around the room in front of me. Annie and I are beside her bed, she's watching and talking to me while I work out a bit.
Doing some pushups right now, that's only the start. Didn't really finish my training yet, but... "You know I'm healed right?"
She look at me with the kind of gaze that just say 'you think I'm dumb' and I kinda understand her.
As I say that, I just keep cranking up pushups like it didn't took any efforts, one, two, three. That's relaxing.
"I can guess, don't know why. I think I'm omniscient"
My eyebrow doesn't even twitch at her answer, already used to her mousy antics. Continuing my pushups, my voice come out blank and normal, wouldn't look like I'm doing any pushups.
"Impressive, really impressive"
She move around in her bed, take her phone out and do something on it.
This! That's it! that's the problem! THE SOURCE OF MY SUSPICION! THIS FUCKING WORD GAME!
Turning her head she look back at me "why the question though?"
Keeping my streak up, I stay in the bottom position of the pushup and turn my head slowly to look at her "Nothing" she raise an eyebrow, taking my answer strangely.
Jumping up as she open her mouth, I leave "gonna go talk to jenna for a second"
As I leave, I can hear the sound of her mumbling "but...didn't you said you wanted to train more?"
Yes. But a quest presented itself to me now.
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I'm behind jenna right now.
Power of time skip and shit, I know, I know, awesome.
She's staring at a small piece of cloth.
Yeah, we're in the watchtower, as usual. That's where she train usually. She train a lot actually, that's impressive.
But like. My eyes trail her fingers as she take another arrow from her quiver.
Why train if you don't plan using it?
Her fingers shake a bit as she give a glance behind, I've been staring at her for like. Two minutes without saying anything. She's probably nervous, understandable.
"You train a lot." She flinch a bit, and keep her arrow on the string looking behind at me. "Y..yeah" the end of her word finish with a small nervous chuckle.
You know what? I understand why she's a bit creeped out. My gaze is INTENSE when I suspect something.
And no. I don't suspect mousy to be a master manipulator, that was obviously a joke man.
Or maybe she manipulated me to think that!?
Alright alright I'm joking, anyway creeping her out isn't my goal, let's change that.
"That's good" if she had like animal ears I'm sure they would raise up, however she don't, so she just scratch her cheek and keep laughing a bit "ah, thanks."
Hmm, that's a bit weird.
The ambience. It's a bit weird.
And that's understandable, we didn't talk since the whole inspect incident, and I'm just coming at her and staring at her before saying strange shit.
Really, I understand her.
But I cannot stop now. MY SUSPICION IS BUUUUUILDING!
"You're aware I'm healed right?" She look a bit more serious for a second, before turning around and smiling, like she's happy I am. "Yes! Yes, I know, that's great, you didn't take that long to heal, good job!"
Bitch is saying good job like I have control over my blood cells.
Well I did trained, and moved gently to increase the amount of blood flow flowing around my body, and specifically my injured areas so I could rehab faster.
So I guess I have limited control.
But like, that's not what I meant. Damn can't even say a joke in peace with you, you always take everything so seriously man.
Chill out.
OR DON'T BECAUSE OF THE SUPICIOOOOON
"Yep. It's been like 2 days since I'm healed."
She nod back, and gently put her bow down, understanding it's talking time. Just after, her nod tilt a bit, she doesn't seem to understand where I'm getting with that.
Well, that's a problem, let's probe.
"Do you need more training time?" She turn around to face me and take some time to answer "no? Well, I wouldn't say no to more time to be ready. But "her smile get bigger as she give me a thumb up "Don't worry, if you need me for a fight I'll be ready."
She look at me, I don't answer, just stare at her.
"Uh...that's." She fiddle with her bow "why the question?"
Shaking my head I give her the brightest smile ever, she blink at my sudden change before smiling back. Thumbing back to her, I talk. "Nothing! Take your time training, we'll talk later!"
Turning around I hear her give me some goodbyes, but I'm focused on the next step.
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I'm sitted beside balrow, the badass grandpa.
He pass his days usually talking with us and staying on his bed, looking around, like his bed is a balancing chair.
He's an old man through and through.
"Balrow"
"Ludger"
I turn my head to him. "I'm healed"
He nod, he knows, obviously.
I continue "you're healed."
He nod, he knows, obviously.
Then I stop, and just stare at him before I ask him a question. Making sure my tone is not hostile. "What are you doing?"
He look forward and hum "I think."
He think.
What the fuck does that even mean!?
"About what?"
He take a small second before continuing.
"About the past."
Huh.
Well damn, felt a bit heavy to hear that for some reason.
Uhhh, I feel weird now.
Retreat!
I lift my hand up and pat his shoulder "keep thinking, gonna move"
He nod at me, not showing his UTTER dissapointment about how he expected me to stare at the wall with him.
#########
I find malfoy in the hallway of the goblin challenge.
Just on the left of the T intersection. Opposite side of Jenna. He's inside the strange fucking light, and the darkness loom ahead, well on the left.
In his hand, a sling.
He's inspecting said sling, even if it's way too short for him.
Looks like he really want to make this work.
As he hear my steps, his head turn to look at me "Ludger? What brings you here?"
Fucking medieval ass speech. Eh whatever, FOCUS! The problem! It's still there, don't show suspicion!
Keeping my squinting eyes in check, I stare at him and stop two steps away from him. My hands rest on my hips "nothing much, just talking to everyone around. You know I'm healed right?"
He look at me, raise an eyebrow, look me up and down. "We did test that together, yes, I do know."
Right right we did. SO HE KNOWS!
EVERYONE KNOW! Can you see the problem now!? It's been two days! Two days!
Nodding at malfoy, I don't wait much for the next question. Pointing at his sling, I ask the same question as usual. "What are you doing?"
He look at it for a moment, then look at me, then at his sling again. "I am waiting for the others to be ready to move to the next door"
Yeah that's the pro-! The fuck?