Chapter 6 - Let Something Shine

Dawn retrieves another memory.

It seems as though that man's "point of pride" is a bit more of shame since it not only left my memories but actually invoked more.
Lying in a hammock, I gazed at the stars with a guy who looked an awful lot like Avid but with shaggy, light brown hair.
"Wouldn't it be great to just leave this world? To see what the stars had to show off? It has to be better than this." My voice scattered off. The Avid lookalike turned onto his left side to face me.
"What? Better than fighting reconditioning and never truly being safe? Nah, there's nothing more fun than that." The tone of his voice worked so much better with this personality versus the timid thing I'd met him as. His fingers threaded between mine. Valor craned his head out of a tent, "Is it safe to join you guys?" It was less of a question and more of a joke. I nodded and he leaped into the hammock next to "Avid".
"So, what's tonight's deep conversation, Pathos?" Valor linked his fingers between Pathos'/Avid's, mimicking the two of us. He batted his eyes and rested his head on Avid’s shoulder, “Are we discussing our past or our future’s? What about baby names?”
"Nope. Not tonight, Valor. Not with what we have waiting for us tomorrow." This was the voice of a leader. Pathos was not Avid. Not in the slightest. Pathos removed his hand from mine and aggressively shoved Valor off the hammock.
"Jeez, I was just kidding. You know you needed a laugh tonight." Valor brushed the dirt off himself while giving me a cocky grin. It was at that moment we heard a soul piercing scream from the other side of the building.

Author's Note

Sorry it took so long to get it up and that it's so short. I've been rather busy with school and whatnot but I've got up to chapter 16 rough drafts written so it shouldn't take too long for chapter 7 to be up!