Reaching Salvation: Post-Acer Part 9

"I assume you're taking lead?" Zackary asked Nathan.

"It'll be fine." Simon soothed. "Drink the tea, it'll make your stomach feel better."

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The twins followed Joey.

Joey began looking around for signs as to where Erika might have gone.

Elena glanced nervously outside, before doing as she was told and drinking the tea.

Adeline sighed, before summoning a few spirits to search for Simon.

Nathan nodded. "Yeah... let's get going."

The eagles all took shot into the sky before looking at the one Nathan was on which began to fly at mid pace.

Sage was silent as the bird took off, closing her eyes.

Zackary just kept an eye, creating a good draft whenever he needed to.

Josh and Al began to mentally feel out with their Flow signatures for anything similar to their own.

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Simon nodded, though when he turned again he saw a spirit looking back at him. After a small jump the boy recovered. "Did Adeline send you here?"

"Any luck?" Joey asked the twins.

Both of them shook their heads. "No... nothing recent."

"Damn...Ok, follow me, I have an idea." Joey said, obvious concern showing.

The spirit nodded.

"...There," Adeline said, heading towards where Simon was.

As the giant building got closer, two people on motorcycles were sent out, each with a white flag posted on their dirt bike. They split up, each heading in a different direction, one to the Acer village the other headed to the Illuminati village.

Josh and Al followed, until Al seemed to stop in his tracks. "Someone's coming."

Joey stopped, and began sensing out the flow of whoever was coming.

There was A LOT of Flow coming from the building's direction...

Heidi nodded, running off in the direction Ade had headed, speeding up when the large amount if Flow finally hit her dull sixth sense.

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Kira blinked awake, sensing the large amount of Flow from the wheeled building. She moved over towards Luke, yawning. "What's going on...?" she murmured, rubbing her eyes.

"Lot of heat over there," Luke explained, pointing. "Good few people."

Kira nodded in understanding, sitting beside Luke. "Lots of Flow, too..." she yawned.

"Weird. Hopefully it ain't bad new," Luke replied, frowning.

Kira nodded, looking out over the forest. "More people means that the forest needs to support more scavengers..." she sighed to herself. What if these new people ransacked the forest? Luke had said it was a bad world.

"Not necessarily," Luke replied, a bit worriedly. "You really shouldn't tire yourself out so much."

"But most likely. It's a wasteland out there, right? That means not too many other choices..." Kira pointed out, smiling at Luke. "But I'm okay with it, and it's not hurting either of us."

"Alright then, as long as you're okay with it it's alright with me," Luke nodded amicably.

Kira smiled, glad that she had a friend that was so easy to get along with. "Do you want something to eat? I don't think we ate breakfast..." she asked, feeling a bit hungry herself.