Chapter 104
The next day, lisca couldn’t calm her pounding heart. Today is the day that she’d had her tattoo and DT. And she was also worrying about the details the hunters get when they inquire about the suburbs.
She didn’t have any plans yet in how to rescue Nesa, and if possible, the other supernatural too. Getting her laptop would be a great start. She had drawn a map of the place that she strained to rember. It would be great if enhanced morization was also one of the qualities they had, but sadly, their brain functions were just like humans. Though she wasn’t sure with any other races.
She was about to get inside the bathroom when Carn called, and she turned around, towel hanging over her shoulder.
"lisca." Carn walked towards her. "Are you joining the training today?"
"Not sure. They would call anyti for the tattoo." She answered.
Carn nodded. "I see. Are you ready for it? I heard it hurts."
lisca shrugged her shoulders. She could care less about the pain. What she was worried for was the ink on her skin. But she remained her cool in front of Carn. Even though she was really dreading it inside. "I don’t have a choice, do I?"
"You don’t. But don’t worry too much about it." Carn moved closer to her and whispered. "How about I co see you after the tattoo branding?"
Girls were passing in front of them, going in and out of the bathroom.
Her forehead knotted, confused. "Why would you do that? I would never cry over so needle."
Carn snorted. She retreated a step from her. "I know. But I have sothing that could help the tattoo look as real as it can be." She wiggled her eyebrows at her.
"Huh? I think I don’t need that." Considering the ink would be gone on its own in just a few minutes. Her shoulders slumped, and she groaned inwardly.
"Oh, co on. It’s for free. Since you’ll be the first one that I’ll get to try it. Also, because you’re the closest person I know that was about to get a tattoo. Let’s just see the results then." Carn insisted. They were the only girls left who hadn’t started their morning routine yet. As the others were already busy on their uniforms.
"Fine." lisca grumbled. She’d lost none, only the tattoo. She blew a whistling breath and turned around to get inside the bathroom already. Carn followed.
lisca felt like her heart was about to burst out from her chest all morning. She was now having breakfast with Lorna, and the girl seed to notice her lack of appetite.
"Liz, are you alright?" Lorna asked her friend across from her. Liz wasn’t eating normally. From just how little she ordered. She instantly knew sothing was up. And now she was barely touching her food.
lisca didn’t want to be so obvious, but it was sothing that she didn’t know how to overco. And it just ca to her mind from overthinking that her blood would also ooze out from the needle when it started to prick her skin for marking. There was so much at stake just from getting this tattoo.
She shook her head as she remained in her deep thought. Not noticing that Lorna was talking to her.
"Liz." Lorna decided to lightly kick Liz’s boots under the table.
That made lisca raise her head finally and look at the girl in front of her.
"What’s wrong with you?" Lorna asked demandingly. She put her utensils down and clasped both hands on the table as she leaned forward. "You’re barely eating. Don’t tell you’re fine. Because you’re obviously not."
lisca of course, couldn’t tell her about the dilemma she had. And wouldn’t even think of opening it up to her. "You got your hunter tattoo. How long does it take to be done with the drawing?" She picked up her fork and curled so pasta on it.
"Hmm..." Lorna tried to recall her mories. "I think it was about two hours."
"Two hours?" She repeated.
"Yes. Is that what you are worried about? The tattoo? Please don’t tell you’re afraid of needles." Lorna’s eyes widen in shock.
"No." Her abrupt reply with a displeased look at such a thought.
"You don’t like having a tattoo?"
"Yes." That could be the most valid reason for her current mood from the other’s perspective. "Can I not get one?"
"No. Everyone had to when they were about to be deployed out of the camp. And the DT also."
Lorna reminded her of another thing that she was also worried about. "Can you explain it more to ? The DT."
The girl pulled her body and leaned to the back of her chair. Lorna looked around to see if anyone could hear them within earshot. The device was only known to the mbers that were about to get a tattoo or those who passed the trainings. "Death Trackers are for tracking your dead body anywhere you are. It would activate, and the system picks up the signal when your heart stopped beating for over 12 hours."
"12 hours?" She moved her body forward and started on her food.
"There was an allowance of 12 hours because it can just be a false alarm that a tracker was accidentally ripped off the skin, but the hunter was still alive. So when the tracker turned up, either it was out of you or you’re already a corpse."
So, that’s how the hunters Laia buried were found by another team. Laia wasn’t a traitor or didn’t have any hand with the hunters.
"Do you also use them for tracking hunters, like, trying to know wherever they are?"
Lorna shook her head. "No. It doesn’t work that way. DT only activates when it doesn’t pick up any heartbeat. Then it would set a tir. After 12 hours, it would send a signal to the system here and a team would retrieve the body from its location."
lisca slowly nodded her head in understanding. "How would they attach it to the skin?"
"It’s in the eye of the viper. Buried just underneath the skin. There’s a small bump of it actually. It was hidden so well because of the tattoo."
She nodded again, taking in the information and trying to process everything in her mind. It was just like from the movies. Advanced inventions. She was amazed of how humans were actually making them real, not just in the entertainnt screen.
"Hey, lisca." Carn appeared in front of their table. Both raised their head on the woman. "Hello, Lori." There was a polite smile on her lips when she looked at Lorna.
"Hello back." Lorna grumbled. She doesn’t like it when the woman called her that. They weren’t even a tiny bit close.
"Are you ready for the tattoo? Tyla was waiting for you at the door."
"She’d barely eaten anything yet." Lorna protested.
"Can she wait?" lisca was shivering from the cold sweat and anxiousness enveloped her system. Sothing in her mind was telling her to run from it. Avoid the needles and the tattoo. But that would be more suspicious than anything.
Carn looked back at the door. lisca and Lorna followed her gaze. The white-haired woman was standing proudly near the entrance. Other trainees greeted her and she was smiling in response. Then as if she sensed their eyes on her, she looked at their direction and nodded at them.
"Ugh. Fine. lisca grumbled and stood up, her chair scraping the floor. "Better get this done with as soon as possible." There was anger in her tone. The two remained silent. She walked away and headed to the woman that was waiting for her by the door. Each step was heavier as her heart pounded louder. Her goes fucking up.
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