kidnapped {D10} /// 46th quell

[EMS]

Kraygon Parks
Eighteen | Male | District Ten

I decided to sleep with the animals tonight. Ma and Pa done run me off for fighting with them, but it's just natural. Besides I like sleeping outside on the hay. It makes me realize what the animals go through every single day, yet it makes me grateful I'm a human being. I normally have a bed to sleep in. It might not be the comfiest thing in the world, but it's better than sleeping outside. It's better than waking up with straw matted in my shaggy hair, and sticking in many different places it shouldn't. Doesn't bother me any though. My folks think they got the upper hand on me, but that's far from true. I'm smarter than they give me credit for, and I wish I had a way to prove it. My head rests next to one of the cows, and it offers enough comfort knowing a massive animal is by my side. The lights from the district, and the stars and moon offer enough to allow me the ability to see. But it sucks cause I can only see black, white and gray. Ain't never seen a color before. Not like it's been described anyway. I guess I just gotta do what I gotta do to survive. Suddenly the lights go out, and it's blacker than anything I've ever seen before. I hear something moving inside the stable, and I just shake it off. I mean I'm lying with a bunch of farm animals, I'm going to hear them moving around. But that's far from the truth. Someone grabs my hands and quickly ties them together. My eyes are still trying to adjust, and I can't see a thing. A cloth thing goes over top my head, and I feel like it's my folks playing some sick trick on me. But it's not them. They'd never do this to me, would they? My heart races inside my chest as I'm dragged away from my resting place. But it feels odd because even the animals never moved.

Kraygon has been placed as d10m runner

[Marree]

"Poppy. I love you!" I tell him, over and over like I do every night. Dad has already left, leaving just the two of us as he sits on the edge of my bed. I look up at him, and smile my endearing smile. Then my lower lip is puckered out. "How much longer will Leslie go on for? Isn't she over due by a few days already?"

"Yes, but she will be fine. Nature will take its course. Sleep, my child." I smile at him, and he leans down and engulfs me into his warm embrace as she rocks me back and forth. "You are getting too old to being put to bed. You're not a little girl anymore."

I shrug my shoulders and then lightly kiss him on the cheek. He stands, shaking his head. His finger goes to click the light off at the door and the thought of the room being engulfed in darkness always makes me close my eyes hard and then wait for the darkness to appear before opening my eyes - waiting to adjust. I lay there with no purpose. My eyes have not been doused with sand to sleep nor has the energy of the day left me.

"One. Two. Three. Four..." I start to count, imagining sheep jumping over a fence but the act of counting seems retired. I succumb to the annoyance and stare at te ceiling, wathcing the lights flicker from the nightlight. Hushed whispered tones make it known that my fathers are relaxing in the living room but the door closes a few moments later.

With heavy eyes, I finally get the feeling of exhaustion creeping over my body. I selttle in.

My eyes close...

"FAUNA. GET OUT HERE QUICK! The calf is coming!" Excitment erupts and the covers are thrown in an instant. Not going to school tomorrow might be an occurence since I'll be up for a while. It's weird how animals know exactly what to do during labor. They don't really need us, but Leslie, she needs me.

My toes scramble to fit into my slippers. I'm forcing my way down the stairs to get over to the barn to take care of my best cow. Only now, do I wonder what the calf will look like and the moment I walk out the door, I'm blindsided by arms wrapping around my waste an hands pulling something over my eyes. I scream out.

"Poppy!" Then I'm muffled and the arms around my waste drag me, kicking and screaming, away.

Fauna Hayden has been placed as the D10F Runner