Sterling

Ever since Jared started making me look older, my life had become more complicated. I didn't know it was possible to get more complicated. I guess being a child for 4 hundred years will do that to you. I guess it had never occurred to me how naive I was.

Sure, I was aware of all the hatred and slaughter going on around me, but I had never actually felt very strongly about anything. I guess you could say, "ignorance is bliss." I started to change, mature I guess. And Rain knew it. The more mature I got the more attractive I was to her. I didn't understand it, I felt like the same guy. Regardless, I knew she was hiding something from me. I didn't know what, but I knew it was something big.

That first year together went by so quickly, it was as if I was anxiously pushing time forward to see what happened next. But now that she was gone, time seemed so slow. My life lost meaning. Why did she have to go and steal fruit from that tree? I told her not to do it. She's been acting weird lately. She's always hungry and demanding things to eat. I was literally seconds from home when she was captured.

I cried and cursed, she was the only thing that mattered to me and now she was gone. I had to get her back. I knew where they would take her. And I needed Jared's help. I tried meditating in a church to find him, but all I got was static. It was as if someone was blocking me from finding him. I knew something must be wrong, Jared never blocked me without telling me first.

I decided to test out my abilities again, it had been awhile since I'd done anything that exerted a lot of energy. I climbed onto the roof of the church and then up the steeple. I figured I would try flying. Dumb? Maybe. But I was arrogant.

I concentrated really hard until I sprouted metal wings. Then I jumped. Luckily it was night so there weren't any spectators this time. I flew about 5 feet before I started falling towards the ground. Luckily I only broke my arm. I decided the only way I could get to her now was to hitch hike or run.

I decided to run for a while. If it took too long then I'd hitch hike, but I really didn't want to risk getting in the wrong car. Over the past year Rain had stressed how important it was for me to be a strong protector. I was having a really hard time with this. My whole life I had been either alone or protected by someone else, the idea of protecting someone else was so foreign to me.

As I ran, I started thinking about my life and what it had become. I felt like Forest Gump. I didn't want to stop until it all made since. Though, I decided I didn't have the momentum he had, and decided to steal a boat instead. I then tried to "pull a Jared" and manipulate the boat into a submarine. I knew I couldn't go very deep, but it seemed to work well enough.

I had been having nightmares a lot lately about a holding facility where prisoners were killed mercilessly by the dozen. So I decided not to sleep for a while. This proved more difficult than I had anticipated. Mile after mile of blue ocean and small wildlife got boring and I drifted to sleep. As a safety precaution, I designed the ship to turn on auto pilot if this happened.