Dæmon story by Adia Ash

[Adia Ash]

The night was clear as Mali slips past the super intentdent of the school. Her Malki in a mouse form under her hair. She sighs as she gets out of the building and runs down the street. She had to get away from here, away from that woman and away from this world.
She sighs when she finally convinces herself to stop when she reaches the edge of the city miles from the school. Her heart raced fear still inside her of what they were doing back there.
MEA's, the horrible test that she would have to take every year if she stayed there. Her life in Portland ws not easy as she picks up her red duffle bag walking north. She was going to try to find the Appalacian trail.
She had been planning for awhile and had left her bag here last week.
Once she got where ever her mind brought her it would be better than here for a little bit. Tougher, but as long as she didn't have to see bully's force another child into a locker, she would be happy.
Malki was quiet as he ponders his person, not saying a word although he had spent month protesting and staying in her room constantly had kept him from tadling on her. She knew she was doing the wrong thing, but if felt so right.

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[Adia Ash]

Mali wandered up from Portland intill dark and fatigue captured her and made her stop. Her Malki looked as if he were to faint and Mali had started swaying where she stood.
She started to set up the tent, but by the time she had taken it out of the package the night had captured her and she just slept on top of it.
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The next morning Mali found herself in a forest that was greener than any other. She packed the tent up and checked her compass. North was straight ahead. Her stomach growling made her pause to fix breakfast.
A stream was gurgling a little ways away so she decided she would get a drink from it. When she reached the stream before she could get a drink something in the leaves rustled. In the fright she had dropped her canten and malki had scurried up her shoulder in mouse form.
A boy jumped out from the bushes. Clearly stating that he had been following her from her reconization of him. Her own half brother was caked with mud head to toee and his blonde and brown hair looked as if he hadn't bathed in weeks.
"What happened to you?", she asked as if she wasn't in trouble. She had never seen her brother like this so it was a surprise.
"I fell in the mud pit a mile back",he says his dæmon on his shoulder. He was two years younger than her so she wasn't surprised that he had followed her.
"Well we better set off again",she said. So they did so she making a hard pace for him to keep intentionally in will that he would actually turn around and leave.