Chapter 27 "Elio's Little Nature Hike"

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Warning
Mention of Harm
Mention of Certain Body parts
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Saturday September 4th, 2027

3rd POV

I walked around the crop fields, just trying to see what else is around. I walk on the path beside the forest admiring the beautiful trees and the flowers, though there are few flowers in this forest.

Out of the corner of my eye I notice a faint bright yellow glow moving through the trees, the glows is almost as bright as the sun. I decide to get a closer look and find Elio walking in the forest.

"Oh Elio, what are you doing here?" I asked the other man with glowing yellow hair.

He turned his head towards me and says "Oh hey Cal, I'm just taking a little nature walk"

"Oh that's nice" I said.

"You wanna join me?" He asked.

"Sure why not, I'm not really doing anything" I replied as I started walking towards him.

"Yay! I can't wait to show you some of my favorite trails" Elio said excitedly. We started to walk through the forest.

"Sooo, how did you meet Xylo if you don't mind me asking" I asked him trying to start a conversation.

"We met in the beginning of Highschool, Nicole was the one who introduced me to Xylo, Andrea and Roxanne" He told me.

"Nicole introduced you to them?" I questioned.

"Yep, we were pen pals before Highschool, in our sophomore year we met Damien and yeah"

"That's cool, was the first time you all met good?" I asked.

"Yeah, They were very welcoming, oh I must ask since it's a little hard to ignore but do you get injured a lot?" Elio asked as he pointed to my arms.

"Oh my bandages? No they're really just for show" I told him.

"Ah, I thought it's because you got hurt a lot sorry for the assumption" Elio said as he looked at his left hand and started fidgeting with the bandages on his left arm. He has a light yellow and white bandage wrapped around his, similar to mine but much more run down.

"Did something happen to your arm?" I asked softly.

In response he nodded and I ask him "Was it from the weird thing in the plain?"

"Mhmmm... yes and no..." He replied softly.

"I'm sure you heard from Xylo that I'm accident prone and most of my injuries go to that arm" Elio explains as he unwraps the bandage revealing many scars and a strange mark. It had a line with to crescents facing away but merged with the line and a circle surrounding it, Although it was faded.

"That marking came from the thing in the plain, Andrea has the same marking on her chest apparently...?" Elio said but unsure at the end.

"Andrea has that same mark?" I questioned.

"Yeah Damien and Amaris checked us and of course they found the mark, though they didn't know what it means" Elio said as he pointed on his chest where supposedly the mark was on for Andrea. He placed his finger on the left side where his heart is.

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