Chapter 4:Owner of a Lonely heart

                                    

                                          


                          
Roy...
                          
"Dawn, Dawn, come one wake up" I shook her lifeless body. I could feel the pain coming from the emptiness that was growing inside me. How could this happen.
                          
"Dawn, I need you, wake up," I tried once more. Putting my head down realizing that she was dead. Gone. She was gone, how could this happen? I curled up next to her on the cold ground, and let the storm of loneliness take me. Like a blanket it covered me till I was completely numb. I heard Jack and Ontari come running back. Tears streaked Ontari's face as she looked at Dawn. Jack had come and sat next to me telling me that everything was alright. Remembering the look in Dawn's eyes as she said her last word, and took her last breath. I fell apart piece by piece as I realized the reality. Dawn was dead. Sitting back up I looked at her. Her once kind face was frozen in the painful cry of sorrow. I looked at her ruined body covered in blood. The hole of the arrow crusted in blood, I looked down to my hands coated in her blood. Her blood. The arrow lay next to me, I grabbed it. Examining it, I saw a word scratched into the shaft of the arrow. I clenched my fist around the arrow in anger. It quickly dissolved, I threw down the arrow.
                          
I sat back down next to Dawn, and shook her once more. Ontari was crying in Jack's arms next to me. I shook her again. She didn't move.
                          
"Dawn, dawn," I begged, " Dawn wake up, please." My voice was broken
                          
"DAWN." I shouted, I could feel that I was coming apart, "Dawn, wake up"
                          
Ontari put her hand on my shoulder, I looked back and she shook her head. Jack was standing with his back to us.
                          
"Roy, we have to go." Onatri stated
                          
"No, I'm not leaving her." I stood my ground
                          
"She's gone, and if we don't leave we will die too." she pleaded with another tear falling
                          
"I can't leave her." I was quiet and broken
                          
"Jack, " she addressed him, " Help Roy carry Dawn," her voice faulted on Dawn's name. Jack walked passed me and gently grabbed Dawn's hands. I sluggedly grabbed her feet and we carried her over the hill...
                          
Dawn... 
                          
The darkness pulled at me. I could feel each part of my body losing awareness. I fought against the darkness but it was stronger. I searched for a way out, but it was like trying to find a light switch in the dark. I couldn't feel the shape of it, I couldn't feel anything. I heard something, a voice? It came again, I could hear it. What is it saying? ROY. I could hear him, he was begging me to stay alive. I felt a sudden urge to live. I pressed against it. Fighting for air, for life. I searched my head for a solution, then I felt it. My heart was slowly pumping, I focused on the rhythm of my heart. I tried to move my lungs, but they were full of a heavy substance. Blood, it was blood, I tried to push it out. It wouldn't move, so I pushed harder till I felt it in my throat. I couldn't breath, I was choking. I took a deep breath then breathed out pushing the blood out of my lungs and the light came...
                          
Roy...
                          
We reached the wash that me and... I couldn't think of her name. We carefully lowered her into a hidden cave made by salt cedar trees. We hid, hoping they would not find us. We sat quietly waiting for them, but they never came. The dusk turned to night, as we waited. With the moon held high I stood up and looked back to Jack and Ontari. Ontari had Dawn's head in her lap as she silently resided in her prayer. Jack had leaned his head against a tree and had closed his eyes, I looked at him with distaste. I opened my mouth to speak.
                          
"Don't," Jack stopped me, opening his eyes half way.
                          
"Don't what?" I asked in a dead voice, my face blank