Chapter 18 DESPRATE MEASURES
Celestia's POV
At first it was almost dismissible but eventually the thick cloud of smoke made its way into my nostrils, and in an instance I had shut up to my feet rushing outside to see what was going down what I saw with thika clouds of smoke surrounding the entire camp and the source of all that smoke was a huge fire that was eating up the forest around us.
Everyone was in a panic scrambling and running together, for a moment my heart sank and I could not even move.
Just what was Raphael trying to do to me to make me lose my mind? After everything I have gone through picking myself up from the very bottom and trying to build something for myself out here where I had next nothing constantly missing my son it still wasn't enough for him that I was living by scraps now he was trying to burn away the little scraps I had they only reasons that I had to smile just because he wanted me to come back for some kind of twisted reason.
I was there like a statue for a long time until the crane came to me shaking me back to motion again
"Lead the camp is going to burn!" He said and it was as if a switch had been flicked in my head this was not the time for self-loading and regret first I had to deal with this save what I could the people that I could say and make sure that I didn't lose anything else and so I told those that could not help to evacuate the little ones and themselves and those that could those with the physical strengths to do so I had them gather as much as we could keep from the camp then the strongest of us all fought back the flames for a while seeing if we could keep the forest.
But there was not much that we could do thankfully it was the time of the year of rain and soon it came pouring down, but by then it was already a little too late.
As the fire began to gradually die down it was as if A fire inside me was wavering and trying its best to stay alight but the downpour of life was just doing everything possible to quench it.
I looked back on so many that had relied on me many of them looking disheveled and frightened the feeling of loss was painted all over all of their faces it was a familiar feeling that reflected in my own eyes.
Once again I was not allowed to collapse into my own self-pity I had to be strong for everyone.
"Let's get out of this screen and find somewhere to take shade, there is a nearby cave..."
So that was where the camp spent the night inside a cold cave many of us had to huddle together to keep warm.
I stood outside watching the remaining drizzle of rain as I wondered what step I would take next and if it was even worth it.
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"What did you say you needed from me again?" I can't believe that I'm actually coming to somebody like him but they say desperate times call for desperate measures and if this was not a desperate time then it seems like I have never known the meaning of the word and I sure do.
After the fire that had taken most of the valuables of my camp essentials that we needed to survive from day to day, I decided to go and look for help from other camps, most of them were actually quite nice and understanding they gave what they could but it clearly wasn't much.
As for Dante he was one of the few camps that had managed to build mostly cabins all for them to live in however he did not bring me to his own cabin but rather to another one owned by another camp member it was was probably not one of the most flashiest things and it will be a little generous to call it a cabin but since I was coming from a camp that was more or less without anything to even put above their heads while they slept I wasn't in the position to put my nose down at anyone.
"Dante you know I wouldn't be coming to you unless I'm in a desperate position and right now I need to help my camp members that fire was so unexpected it came and almost took everything away thankfully nobody was hurt,"
I said this while I started across from him and instead of responding to what I said he took a good swing of his bottle and then slammed it down on the table.
"Are you about to get to the part where this is all my problem or have you forgotten that you are supposed to talk about it?"
I looked at him with a bewildered expression now Dante was not exactly the most generous guy out there but with the way he was always constantly an endlessly questioning the way I took care of my own camp you would think that he would jump at the opportunity to at least help us now in this most trying time but instead of helping he seemed to be spitting in my face.
The same thing that happened with Priscilla she was constantly busy whenever I came by but I knew the news of the fire had spread to her even faster than it did that night on the forest and yet she was not stretching out a single hand to help I could see that when classic lands that made these days it wasn't with that complete on filtered hatred most of it was just mixed with confusion but she wasn't the only person that was lost I left Dante's camp knowing that I had only one choice left for me if I didn't want to go back to Raphael.