Elmo wasn't sure what was going on. First the others arrive, then they start asking about soone that he'd never even heard of: Elin. If they had said sothing more than that, then maybe he wouldn't be so confused about it.
The only thing that he could possibly think of was that they'd encountered soone nad Elin while they were on their way here, and thought that this 'Elin' had co by here. Although, he couldn't say that his explanation would explain why Jonas had left almost right after he got here or why Kim wanted a private word with Sonya.
There was just too much that didn't make any sense.
Not to ntion, when Grisha showed up, he couldn't help feel like it had only gotten stranger. As while he rembered what Grisha had co here for, he couldn't rember how he knew so details, such as that soone had seen his sister a while ago. An exact ti wasn't clear to Elmo, but he wasn't sure if it was because of how he knew those details was also fuzzy or if it was because he'd rely heard it from soone else.
"Should I have brought more rabbits?" Grisha had said when he'd first arrived after Bart made his announcent. "I didn't expect anyone to arrive so suddenly."
"Don't worry about it," Elwin had remarked without looking in Grisha's direction. "We brought so bear at with us."
"I don't believe we've t before," Owen said, walking over to Grisha as the man carried four rabbits over to where they'd recently cleaned the boar. "I'm Owen."
"I'm Grisha," Grisha replied, looking a little uneasy at Owen's friendliness. "What're all of you doing here? They told that they knew soone who could help find my sister, but they never said anything about so many others."
"I guess we just didn't think about it," Elmo said, unsure whether or not they actually did ntion everyone. He thought they had, but he really couldn't be sure.
"It doesn't matter," Grisha replied, sounding as friendly as he always had. Like he wasn't really bothered by the sudden appearance of so many people.
Yet, Elmo felt like it did matter to Grisha. Much like when his father apologized to his mother for screwing sothing up and she said that it didn't matter or sothing, when he could tell that it did matter to his mother.
He wasn't sure what it was that either upset or annoyed Grisha so much about five other people showing up so suddenly, but he had a feeling that sothing was different about Grisha. Even though he really had a bad feeling about saying anything about it. He wasn't sure what it was about, but it was certainly there.
"Anyway, your friend ntioned that you had bear at? Where'd you get that? I haven't seen any signs of a bear anywhere in these mountains."
"Well, it kind of was a giant bear that died about maybe a three or five day walk from here?" Owen said, sounding like he was asking rather than telling Grisha. "We cut out what we could get, but had to leave most of it, since it was a very large bear."
Grisha shook his head, looking to Elmo like he didn't want to deal with that subject. "Whatever. Though, I have to ask, have you seen my sister on your travels? Her na is Elysia."
Owen rely shrugged. "I haven't a clue. Others might have, but we don't always tell each other everything. Sotis if I want so information from one of the others, like Elmo here, I have to pry it out of them with how tight lipped they can be."
Elmo looked at Owen out of the corner of his eye. He wasn't sure what Owen was getting at with that statent, but he was pretty sure that Owen would be able to get at information more easily than the rest of them At least with his system that seed to let him read a person's thoughts. Although, as he glanced back at Grisha, he couldn't complain about not wanting to let soone know sothing like that. Or at least soone who wasn't in the competition, at least.
"Do you mind if I ask around?" Grisha asked, "If you don't know if the others haven't seen her, then they might be able to tell sothing."
"Go ahead," Owen replied disinterestedly. "Each of us pretty much do our own thing anyway. Even if it annoys the rest of us."
Grisha smirked, sohow making Elmo feel like that was the closest to a genuine expression he'd seen from Grisha. "Not a problem. I just hope I can find her before sothing happens to her."
"What could happen to her?" Elmo asked. "I an, if she's survived this long on her own, I doubt that there'd be anything in these mountains now that would be a threat to her."
Grisha shrugged. "You never know. Even if sothing isn't normally a threat, circumstances can change to make it a threat, regardless of anything else."
Elmo wished it didn't feel like he'd just received a veiled threat. While he couldn't dispute what Grisha had said, it felt more like he was telling Elmo that if he didn't stop asking questions, that he'd be the one in danger. Despite how Grisha making his statent that sounded like he was concerned about his sister's circumstances changing.
"My head hurts," Elmo muttered as Grisha walked over to Kim. "It's like listening to him just gave a headache."
"He is up to sothing alright," Owen remarked quietly. So quietly that Elmo felt a little surprised he could hear Owen. "I just can't tell what just yet."
Elmo looked at Owen for a minute before walking away from him. He couldn't say what it was that had him so suspicious of Grisha and why Owen's statent made him feel like Owen wasn't being upfront about all the abilities of his system.
Although, on the other hand, he couldn't say that he could be sure that Owen had really disclosed all the information about it. After all, it wasn't like they had been working together that much. Besides, he was pretty sure that the others in his group hadn't told him everything about their systems. Which made him feel even more confused about why he felt so annoyed that Owen might not have said everything that he could do with his system.
Taking a deep breath, Elmo scratched his head, not sure why that troubled him so much. He felt like it shouldn't matter, but for so reason, at that mont, it did. Maybe it was his whole unease about what was going on. With what he could and couldn't rember.
Such as how he rembered a good amount of the journey he'd made so far in this competition, but there were parts that he couldn't quite rember.
Such as how he rembered how he felt scared of Kim's attitude towards him, but he couldn't rember what mitigated that fear enough so he was willing to travel with her. Or how he'd survived the freezing cold of whatever it was that he'd essentially caught from Jonas on their first night in that dungeon.
It was like he rembered the biting cold, but then he couldn't rember when or how it went away. While he didn't rember anyone nad Elin, he couldn't be sure that he actually hadn't t anyone by that na. Not with the holes in his mories when he looked back.
As Elmo sat down, leaning against a tree, a distance away from everyone else, he couldn't help but wonder if whatever was happening was part of their current set challenge. Or if it was sothing else. He wasn't sure what might be causing it or if it was sothing about this 'Elin' that was the cause.
Since he couldn't rember her, he couldn't really rule out the possibility that she was the problem sohow. Or maybe sothing around her was. Although, it also felt like he was missing sothing. Sothing that he'd probably be able to pick up if he didn't have those holes in his mory. Holes that he couldn't figure out how to fill.
Closing his eyes, Elmo wondered if maybe taking a nap would help him out. While they had to wait for Sonya to get better, they wouldn't be able to move. Even if it was just by walking. Though, he was of the opinion that Sonya just didn't want to walk, or maybe limp, while her foot was still injured.
If that was the case, then he couldn't say that he blad her for that. He couldn't imagine that he'd care to do that, even if he had four legs himself.
Opening his eyes a crack, he looked around, suddenly realizing he had no idea where Jonas was. He knew that Jonas had returned with the others, but as he thought about it, he hadn't seen him since that ti.
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