TIOA Sns9 eps 36: Theo stayed close to the fire, he was getting warmth back in his body, his brothers took his soaked and freezing clothes and laid them on the cave wall near the fire to drip dry and dry by the fire. "You need to be more careful Theo." said Pallab as he put Theo's shirt closer to the fire, he wrung out the water. Theo turned to him and said back. "You were pulling on me and made me lose my balance." Pallab turned back around to him and responded. "You do not get to blame that on me, had you come along on your own."
"We should gather more wood Pallab." said Latrell, and he looked at his younger brother sternly. Pallab nodded and went out the cave entrance with his older brother, Theo looked at the fire and decided to add another piece of wood that was already gathered, he stirred the other wood with it first and the flames came up, he tossed the wood on top and continued to watch the fire. He scooted closer and the heat was almost too much, but he stopped hunching and sat erect and the heat was under his chin and he could feel it on his face. He sighed feeling better.
After a few minutes his brothers came back with wood in their arms, Theo thought it was enough for the night and felt better. His brothers ducked as they came in and
threw the wood on the ground near the fire. "Come on Theo, enough sitting around you can help. Stack the wood, we need to get more." said Latrell. "Get more, don't we have enough already?" said Theo as he got up and over to the wood and started to stack it.
The sound of branches cracking and rustling could be heard outside. Theo froze, Latrell went nearer the entrance and gave out a hoot. He waited and heard no response, he gave one more hoot and waited, Pallab came near him. Latrell turned to Theo and pointed at him and put his hand up straight to say stay. He pointed to Pallab's sword and looked at Pallab and motioned out and to the right, he then pointed at himself and motioned out and left. Pallab nodded that he understood and the two started to leave. "Wait..." Said Theo starting and Pallab turned back and put his finger up to his mouth. "Shhh."
Theo watched as his brothers left and the anxiety was back on him, he went back behind the fire and placed it between him and the entrance and watched out into the darkness and listened. He heard nothing for what seemed like forever and finally a few sounds and felt good that his brothers were coming back.
He watched the entrance and there was movement, hard to see and dark, and the large body ducked to come in and rose. Theo's heart rose as he saw the white and blue painted face and the bear skin. He wanted to move back, but was already at the dirt wall. The big man smiled and bared his yellow teeth a large sword in his hand, Theo moved quickly and grabbed his much smaller sword.
The man laughed wickedly and put the sword away and took out a smaller knife with a curved blade, he smiled and started forward, Theo's heart pounded and he stood and held his sword in front of him, the sword shaking in the air as his fear was being transferred through the blade. The man came close and started to raise his dagger to meet the sword. "Ugh... Ugh." the big man said and fell forward just missing the fire and Theo, two swords stuck in his back. "Theo are you okay?" said Latrell as he moved quickly forward taking the sword back out and coming forward, Theo was still looking at the big man and only turned when Latrell touched Theo on the shoulder.
"Theo! are you okay?" Latrell asked one more time and Theo looked over at him and recognized his brothers face, he dropped his sword and hugged Latrell. "Yes." Latrell hugged him back and watched as Pallab took out his sword, Pallab said. "We should check him out and take his clothes."
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