Theories||{Anyone can join}

The glowing embers leaped and twirled in a fiery dance, twinkling like stars in the hot swirling air before cascading to earth like gleeful fire fiends, setting alight the tinder dry forest of high August.The nascent fire played amid the kindling like a child with a new toy, it's flames leaping in excitement, it's quiet crackling like so much giggling in the woods.The fire devoured the kerosene in a flash of scorching flame and soon began to burn the trees it had been daubed on. Thick black clouds of smoke choked the air.the world became illuminated. In the distance, I could see thick gray smoke billowing into the skies. The once pale blue sky is now shielded by a veil of darkness as the smoke swallows up the whole sky. Fierce fire could be seen sneaking their way out from the rows of trees. orrential ashes swirled, blending against the setting of black,

as particles of fire, glittering, surreal, plummeted towards the Earth, illuminating all it touched

The world was enveloped by that acrid scent, the world was set alight by tangerine sparkles,

the inky sky shielded by billowing gray smoke, which spread out like a billowing charcoal cloak

The trees, unable to withstand the boiling wrath. "Nova." a voice called.

"Nova!" A voice interrupted my nightmare and I felt my shoulders shaking in a grip. I awoke to soft sheets, and the morning light trickled in through the blinds. Shedding myself of the remaining glimpses of a dream, my eyes were still shut as I soaked in the warmth of my covers. "Nova, wake up" the voice interrupted my trance-like oblivion once more. 
"What the hell do you want?" I groaned. My eyelids felt as if they had been sewed shut, I imagined I could feel the tearing skin as I peeled them slowly open and blinked. Painfully I hauled myself in a sitting position. Every part of me ached.

"So you finally decide to awaken." Said a dry voice. I turned. Forgen, my brother was perched on the foot of my bed.
"What is so damn important that you decided to awaken me from my slumber?" I croaked my voice dry as sandpaper.I Iet my eyes focus on the blurry world around me and I finally see his worried expression. Cold sweat glistened on his furrowed brow. With hands clasped tightly in front of his stomach he constantly fiddled with his knuckles, weaving his fingers in and out of each other. He was afraid to tell me. 
My palm caressed his cheek, my long slender fingers were stroking carefully, I could see my red knuckles. Wine-red blotches from the cold.Thinking about the possibilities, he probably got in trouble with the peacemakers and was afraid to tell me, it couldn't be that bad could it? Many theories were buzzing in my mind.
"Tell me" I demanded.
He hesitated, A muscle twitched involuntarily at the corner of his right eye, his mouth formed a rigid grimace. "Fourtess and I were caught stealing, but the peacemaker only saw him."
The dread creeps over me like an icy chill, numbing my brain. In this frozen state my mind offers me only one thought. There is no avoiding it, the thoughts of what their probably doing to him. I'm like a cow being herded into a truck for the slaughter house, only the cow doesn't know where it's going and I do.
"What?" I hissed, I didn't have enough time to go into Mother-Hen mode and lecture I'm too busy scrambling to my battered up dresser for a fresh pair of clothes. "How the hell could you be so stupid." I growled.
My thought linger on more theories, he could possibly be whipped at this very moment.

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My feet pounded on the cobble stone pathway with all the grace of a sack of wet concrete.
My rasping throat was as parched as a dead lizard in the desert sun. My  head bobbed loosely from side to side with each footfall and my eyes felt heavy in their sockets. Forgen ran by my side feeling as tired as I was but he lead the way, and I silently prayed Fourtess was okay. A sound of yelling and shouting pierced in my ears and I felt my combat boots clomping louder on the pavement. I spotted a thirteen year old blonde boy crying and begging as the Peacemaker screamed at him. Fourtress. A smouldering stare held onto the Fourtress that had frozen in front of him. I could feel his thoughts were probably all gnarled together as the temptation to hurt my brother poisoned his bloodstream. An immaculate hunger twisting his inside he lurched forward to Fourtess and before I knew it I threw my body in front of my brother.