A few hours after i finish he meeting with morgan I sit on the walls yet again. Its relaxing in a way. The whole place seems so fake. Its hard to put it to words, but its like everyone is trying to ignore the elephant in the room. Or more like the formerly corrupted elephant in room. Every silence is too careful, their all waiting for the shoe to drop. We all know what's going to happen, a final massive confrontation that could very well kill humanity. The nightmarespawn fighting unrelenting storm, a true fight and not the minor slaps the two have been giving each other.
"Oh, caster"
I turn my head to the familiar voice
"oh Gilead I didnt expect to see you up here"
he smiles sitting down with me
"it feels like I'm doing something useful, watching for attacks and all that"
I laugh
"yes, and its a lot more quiet."
He nods leaning back
"i have to agree, it is quite loud, and more then a little rowdy."
I throw my hands up
"finally someone said it. Remember the party last month, goodness it was so loud i couldn't sleep."
He laughs slightly elbowing me
"if you couldn't sleep then nobody else could"
i lean towards him
"oh come on, dont act like you don't sleep like the dead too"
he pushes me lightly
"yeah when I pass out from exhaustion, you sleep like the dead every time you sleep"
we laugh together.
After about a hour he gets up to leave.
"Oh yeah, hey caster"
I look away from the darkness outside of the camp
"yeah?"
He seems slightly nervous
"i might have overheard a argument that heat seeker and one of their echos where having a few days ago."
He looks away
"maybe you can talk to one of them, i know you used to be pretty close with heat seeker, and I've seen you around with another one of their echos"
i think I know what echo hes talking about Frozen Singer. I nod slowly
"yeah, I'll check it out..."
i look around, trying to keep it subtle
"what was it about?"
He thinks for a minute
"i think it was about the echo not mentioning some information."
He runs his hand through his hair
"i didn't hear much of it. The whole thing was pretty quiet. Although I don't what information they had been talking about."
He smiles, its fragile in a way
"i really would rather the sovereign thats the only real way to fight against the nightmarespawn to not be having problems"
i smile back at him trying to look normal
"yeah I get it. I know them both, don't worry I'll have a conversation with them"
I look back at the distance.
"Well i best be off. Its pretty obvious we will be needing our sleep, have a good night caster"
"i will dont worry about it"
I hear his steps slowly get quieter as my smile slowly drips completely.
I get up slowly, I have to figure out what is happening. I don't know everything, but I know enough to realize this is a massive problem, but I don't know enough to be on their radar as a issue or a whistle blower. I walk down from the walls, it seems it started to snow. There's a lot of evidence to point at something being wrong, very wrong, with that echo. It had always acted oddly, speaking and playing nice when ■■■■ was around, but the second they lead it becomes cold, refusing to speak. Well its less they refused to speak to everyone, just anyone that wasn't close enough to ■■■■, or at least I think thats what's happened. It all came off as incredibly odd, I never commented on it because its a echo and those normally can not act against the will of their owner, but its clear their echos are very different. Its not just their ability to become stronger but its also their independence. Each of the echos I've been around has shown a uncanny level of independence. I've even heard one of the echos was leaned out in a way so they keep the ownership of the echo, but a house of night member was able to summon and use it. The snow crunches under my boots. There's even the fact that they appear as ice crystals that float behind them ever since they became a awakened. Its pretty clear that the echos are able to think and act on their own, one acting against their owner in this case doesn't seem that insane. I need to find out more, there's something happening and I can't let things get more unstable.
I turn a corner finding frozen singer. Floating, staring up at the sky.
"Frozen singer"
it doesnt turn my way, instead it starts to float off. I speed up taking its hand
"I'm trying to speak to you. Don't just fly away"
it looks down at my hand
"what."
"Your hiding things, intentionally."
She tries to pull her hand away but I just keep holding it
"i don't think your being controlled. Your planning something aren't you?"
She tilts her head
"how different is time to entropy?"
"What?"
She shakes her head
"doesn't matter. I am a seer, of course i am. Telling others can ruin everything. You should know about things like this well enough."
I tighten my grip on her hand, I didn't know it was a seer but it doesn't matter
"your actions are clearly causing problems. Your acting against war, if not every version of heat seeker"
it leans forward suddenly
"what would you know boy? You got cut off years ago"
I lean back away from it a deep frown crossing my face
"that doesn't matter your actions are causing damage. Its obvious."
It tilts its head
"you know nothing of me, of them. You would not be the one to tell their stories. You are not someone to witness them after their dead."
"Stop. You keep deflecting."
It leans away, then it rips its hand away from me
"you will never truly understand. I doubt even she would understand, that girl is too young."
It suddenly disappears as I reach out to grab it. Who was she talking about?