Mary May Fairgrave

I woke up coughing violently for hours now I had been drifting in and out of consciousness and each time saw I did people were standing over me checking my temperature. However, this time was different; I was awake clearly and no one was here or they weren’t until a youngish woman walked in, Mary I think her name was. “Rook you are up!” I nodded and taking her glass of whatever it was said, “I owe you, thanks!” she shook her head before shrugging said, “No you don’t, it’s the least we could do for you. You are helping winning back this town one building by one building. I just hope you last that long!” I nodded and seeing the scar on her shoulder area asked, “Where did you get the scar from?” she looked at it before saying, “John, it’s a tattoo I received years ago but due to the ingredients in the ink I had a allergic reaction and his ‘majesty’ let me remove it!” I laughed before shrugging said, “Why is it they all seem insane, surely one of them has sense? Apart for Faith” she shrugged before saying, “Loonies together never speak sense. But tell me about Faith’s illusion!” I sat up with her help and thinking about it said, “I was in a misty area, it was a greenish mist and on what felt like grass but more harsh like straw there she was. She pulled me forward and welcoming me but then it clicked almost like when you change a song. She sort of shifted as she ran through the gates. They shut and looking down was a younger version of her being bullied by the two children almost like she didn’t recognise and waited for my reaction. I naturally told them to get lost and when I said, “it’s ok, I am here” they disappeared and in a hurry she begged for my help, told me about disalusion and wanted out. She said she knew what she did was wrong and knows she has blood on her hands. It’s weird because it felt like she was there as she whispered “please save me”, she knew my name and told me to remember not everything is true. I suppose she meant what you all would say about her!” she sat down as she asked, “You know her?” I nodded causing me to claim, “Was her only friend at one point, it wasn’t until years later when we were about thirteen or fourteen when her family told her not to hang out with me, apparently I was going to get her in trouble. The child scene was when I first met her. I stood up for her but the children ran away because I was an outsider; we spent endless hours playing together or with my friends and Rachel’s mother grew annoyed by it. I was apparently bad but truthfully she probably would have ran away with me or lived with my family if she had the chance” she sat back and reflecting on it commented, “That’s not the generic one, so Grace could be right, it’s also rare to get them from this far out, maybe she was trying to contact you? Maybe it was the fever? maybe it’s another ploy to try and lure you into the bliss. Elements on it seem to be luring you to it. Why did she wait so long and what happened for her disillusion?” I pulled out the blood stained email as I read, “She didn’t say much but in one of her emails under the name Angel said, that “Joseph is worse than ever, he’s making an army and wanting me to create a weapon to infect everyone, my queries are ignored and John reckoned Joseph was planning something big, she didn’t know what but she said there is an aura of hostility and heaviness where before it wasn’t and she felt his eyes were on her and John repeatedly. I guess she is trying to run from whatever Joseph has planned! She said earlier that she couldn’t trust any of the Peggies or the others and thinks that despite John’s queries he is too loyal to Joseph, her other friends are gone or are on the other side and the only other person she knows is me and she didn’t know what happened to me. My plan was to falsely arrest her and when we couldn’t find any evidence she would be free but Marshal insisted on Joseph and it went to pot!” she nodded before questioning asked, “So what will you do?” I shrugged before smiling said, “Do the only thing I know and that’s be there for her no matter the result but first of all I have something else to do!” she looked at me questioningly and pulling her into the bed started to kiss her lips, “it includes me, you and a bed!” she smiled climbing under the cover and pulling her trousers and top off said, “O I think I can oblige!” as returned the kiss and turning off the light started to nibble my neck, tonight was going to be a long and eventful night.