We scurried quickly from the tavern as ,with the mysterious man not being there, the foreign rabble started going back to their usual selves which didn't involve staying quiet and being obedient. As we went through the final door, leading back out to the beach I saw Lennie bring his arm up to his chest and clench his upper chest. It didn't look good and didn't look any better when I saw his face, depressed and sober. He looked in immense pain...
"Lennie, are you alright?"
*No response"
"Lennie?! Lennie!"
As I opened the door I ran into the mysterious figure from earlier. I started shouting at him, ordering and pleading for him to help my friend. His face showed no emotion and he didn't even look at Lennie, falling down in pain. I looked back up at him expecting to see emotion but there was none.
"Aren't you going to try and help?! I think my friends having a heart attack!"
There was no reply. He then closed his eyes and raised his right hand. I am sure I will never forget what then happened... he punched Lennie! Lennie coughed up blood straight away and I thought that he had killed Lennie! I got up and attacked the old man. I was just about to strike what would be the fatal blow when I hear Lennie talk in the background. Struggling to say every word made it hard to hear him but I did.
"James, leave him. He's *gulps* cured me?"
I threw the old man to the floor, turned back towards Lennie and saw that he was now standing and looked as good as normal, bar for the blood covered shirt and dry mouth, but apart from that he looked great. I heard some pebbles and sand then shuffle behind me, the old man! I saw him running, running very fast until he just stopped. Me and Lennie just stood there awaiting for him to drop dead or to turn around and say something. He sure did one of them.
"Hasta la vista."
Hasta la vista? How many languages can he speak? Lennie whispered in my ear that there was a Film called The Terminator where a guy played by Arnold Schwarzenger says that all the time. He also said that earlier that day he had said a quote from Lord of the Rings to him as well. Right so there I was. With the strangest hippy you will ever meet, or never meet in your lucky case, who was on the edge of life 24/7 and a runaway foreigner who could speak many languages and who turned out to be a film fanatic? Fantastic.
We started running in the direction that the old man went, he seemed to know the surroundings and with him being able to stop everyone in the tavern, it seemed he had some authority or responsibility around these parts. Going off into the sunset once again, this time running. Oh how active is my life these days?