I was looking at the dark oak wood door for a few minutes but it seemed like hours. all I could hear was the fireplace crackling.
How long have I been here?
Where even am I ? And who was that lady with the mask from earlier? These were all questions circling around my head.
My thoughts were then halted when
Someone burst through the door.
"COPPER you're awake yay" they yelled quite abruptly.
It was my best friend pocket who was now jumping around the room in a excited way kind of like a child. I told him to calm down and that I was ok.
After about half an hour of talking I finally understood the situation. They ran away like I told them but found a small village at the end of the forest. They went to the closet door and knocked on it hoping to find someone that would help, lucky someone opened it. The someone being the lady from earlier she seems nice but did not talk much.
Pocket then told me that he was worried when the lady brought me back passed out and pale as the snow around me. I looked at him with a slightly sad look, he asked what was the matter and I told him.
"I honestly didn't know if I was gonna make it, i could feel the last bits of warmth start to leave my body." I whispered avoiding his gaze.
We both then fell silent for a second. Pocket tucked my long ginger hair behind one of my ears and said:
" it's ok now. We have you back safe and warm. I would have gone myself to look for you but I had to keep the others safe. You know how much you mean to us but you told me to stay with them always so I did." He told me with a gental voice tears welling up in his eyes.
I told him he was right I wouldn't want him to look for me if it would endanger the others. Pocket was a skinny boy with no skills other then gathering and mapping the areas we have been he's good at locations and memorizing things. His dark brown hair some might call it black against his light olive skin looked beautiful under the firelight I couldn't help but blush.
Pocket got his name from his father a watch maker, the best in our old town. That was until the virus hit. When that happened no one was allowed to make anything clockwork and anyone caught doing it would be arrested. his father the ever stern man fought with the policy trying to keep his business on the lowdown it was his passion. However he got careless and dealt with shady people so they ratted him out when he wouldn't given them a discount and he was taken by the enforcement officers.