together. I had to explain more than once why I needed help to get it off because Shyanna wasn’t having anything to do with any of the others getting that close to her, but she finally let Sydney help me. She had seen the way Jacob and I had fought and didn’t seem to want him near her. As soon as the last of the wire snapped, she took a sharp gasp. “It’s okay, sweetie.” I bent the stiff thing away from her permanently scarred neck that sunk in a good inch where she must of struggled, having had the restraint on all her life. I no sooner had it off when she shot straight into the night sky, disappearing right before our eyes.
“Now what?” Sydney asked.
“Let her have her freedom for the first time in her life, if she wants to come back she will and if she doesn’t, she won’t,” I replied, searching the sky.
“That’s it?” Tanda asked, the shock shooting out like daggers.
“Please don’t take this wrong, but it’s not like we can just jump up in the air and go after her,” Derek sloppily tried to explain.
“I know that you stupid boy. I was only asking a simply question.” Then she turned and went below.
“Are all females that snippety?”
“Yes!” Jacob and Garvin answered at the same time.
“Well, don’t you two agree?” I asked looking back at Brandon and Sydney.
“Are you kidding, we know you better than they do,” Brandon responded then grabbed his mouth.
“And I guess this is what I get for having so many males around.” Then I too headed below, with them asking about Shyanna.
I knew that what I told them would stand true and I for one was glad to know that she was somewhere out there spreading her wings for the first time. I know that I would try to fly to the moon if I had a pair of wings like she did. I was sure that I wasn’t the only one wishing we had some of those on our backs.
Things had calmed down and everyone was asleep except for Jacob and myself, which was one of the things that I was becoming accustomed to. He had told the workers to keep an eye out for Shyanna and to bring her into the first hall and close all the doors before bringing her in the main room that was closest to the rest of us, locking the room up tight afterwards. I was feeling the day pulling for my daily death when one of the workers started banging on the door.
“Master Jacob, the beast returns.”
“Bring her to us as you have been told.”
“She snaps at us sir.”
“Tell her you are bringing her to Renee,” he demanded losing his temper.
“Yes sir.”
“Isn’t it funny how they don’t just open the door and cook us all and take over the ship with all the treasure that we have on it,” I said with a slight snicker.
“Quite the morbid thought, but they haven’t much left after all the bloodletting of the old one. Let us just hope with you not taking that privilege that they do not regain their own will. Plus, they could not anyway, not with this room being locked from the inside.”
“Smarty pants,” I murmured to myself.
“Sir please, open the door!” the worker yelled.
“Not you, no. I bite, no touch.”
“Shyanna,” I said from the darkness of the room.
“Renee, me’s back…me’s back,” she squealed in a high pitched tone, that one would swear would wake the dead, yet they lay there perfectly still.
Jacob unlocked the many locks on the door and she hopped in not stopping until she was well past him, then he quickly relocked the door. She rushed to where I was standing and grabbed my hand and started rubbing her face on my palm. “Me’s back. Flap, and flap.” I put my hand on her head and pulled her to my body. I took her to my side of the bed and crawled in, but she pulled away and curled up on the floor beside it instead. I took one of the pillows and placed it under her head, then took one of our many blankets and covered her body.
“No want’s skins.”
“No sweetie, it’s to keep you warm, and that’s to make your head