Feet dance over fallen twigs and dead leaves that decorate the forest floor underneath him - he’s careful as to where he places his feet within the darkness that consumes the boy like the velvet night consumes a once dreamy sky that painted itself above Neverland. The scarred youth is successful when navigating himself around the island, but like most boys, he’s a deer within the lights of a car when it comes to navigating himself around within the thickness of the black. He has yet to navigate himself successfully like Peter seems to do so - which brings the blond to wonder if Peter has returned back to camp yet. If so, he’ll question very little on where his leader has been and will simply make himself aware to the many who crowd a spitting and orange, flickering fire.
Passing a tree - fingers graze of the bark, and even within the dark, the boy senses that he is manoeuvring himself within the right direction. Fingers soak up the feel of the bark, rough against the pads of finger tips, and Felix gracefully dances between the spaces of trunks, dancing within one space and dancing around the other and he continues to do so, with that free spirit of his until a foot crashes down upon what he believes to have been a dried twig. The crack and snap of the once live wood oddly enough echoes and rustles the leaves that cling to trees like wooden posts attempt to cling to the earth in a tornado.
It’s then he feels it. The sharpness of something, something cold dipping through his shoulder, drawing blood and creating a deep gaze that fills quickly with a crimson colouring. His own blood. An arrow. He hisses loudly with his pain, immediately clamps a fingers over the wound, whilst grey hues dart around the attempt of finding the culprit. It surprises him that someone is even out of the camp at this time… Either that or there is someone else upon the island… Or Peter.
The wound feels warm against his hand, and Felix can already feel the blood boiling underneath and the skin raise, redden and bruise. The boy utters, utters something about the culprit being idiotic, foolish - he’d say blind and yet he’s mentally telling himself it was a good shot.
Though the sky that loomed above Neverland was always dark
to look upon, it seemed much darker this night. Maybe it was because of the
moon that had not shown its presence behind the clouds, or maybe it was
because of the darkness within the King himself, that was reflected high above.
None the less it made the dark forest terribly dangerous to walk within, as you
never knew what was lurking outside of the compound that belonged to Peter
Pan and his Lost Boys. But none the less someone had chosen to walk the forest
at the most suspicious of hours.
Being in tune with every grain of sand on the island, was a
pretty big advantage when it came to sensing the presence of pretty much every-
one on the island. He knew someone had been walking the forest floor outside
of the camp; and it wasn’t in a route he’d instructed someone to walk. So instead
of handling all the fun to the lost boys, he’d decided to take matters into his own
hands. But of course neither he would walk the forest without problem.
With a crossbow clutched in his hand, carelessly hanging by his
side, he would walk the forest in utter silence. Carefully listening to what was
surrounding him, his green eyes would narrow as he tried to focus on what lied
ahead of him. If you listened carefully, you could almost hear the faint cry of a
child, weeping for their mother. But there were no mothers in Neverland. There
had not been one in many years, so to speak.
But the sound of a cracking branch was loud enough for him to
hear, and he knew at once it was no roaming animal, but a footstep. Aiming his
crossbow, he would fire the arrow with very little hesitation, and it’s hard to tell
how, but somehow he knew it was not a missed target.
“That’ll teach you not to sne---” but Pan never got to finish off
that cocky sentence, because as his feet carried him through the branches, the
sound of dry branches cracking where he put his foot, one very familiar
silhouette came into his sight. “Felix?” he asked as he came to a halt, his voice
surprised yet concerned and slightly annoyed.
“Didn’t I tell you to watch over the boys?”