Nag and I simply left the mess hall. We went down the halls, the way I came there. Nag seemed to know exactly the way. But it troubled me that he kept looking back, forward and in all kind of directions. Was he frightened, careful or just checking after followers? Maybe the one we should meet was a very secret person at a very secret location.
Maybe.
After a while with Nag, I started to feel quite uncomfortable. He was walking around as in a deep fog, whispering things low to himself. Almost everything was like gibberish to me, but the things I could understand and hear was scaring me. He quoted poems about blood, death and destruction. I thought we would get lost in that scary labyrinth or that he in any minute turn into a half-god super scrab.
I was really frightened.
Then he stopped and leaned at the wall. He stared down on the floor. His eyes jumped from one spot on it to another while he slowly shaked his head. I looked past him. There was so many ways to choose, I got a bit troubled. He sighed and looked at me.
"I don't know where we should go." he said in the thone of a completely hopeless slig.
"What?!" I said. He made a sign not to speak so loud.
"I can't remember. Damn that Comnun for building his freaking lair so deep." He mumbled something, I don't think that it was a blessing. Then he quickly turned his head at me again.
"Left or right?"
I thought for a while.
"Does a wrong answer lead to our death?"
"No, just alot of swearing and trying to get help before you die by blood loss."
I assume that I looked a bit stunned in that moment.
"Technically, yes, it does. You see, Comnun and I had to take the greatest safety we could get."
"You aren't really a slave, are you?" I asked and thought hard of which way to choose.
"Nope, I'm not. That's just a real good place to rest. The guards either don't notice, or don't care. Let's go to the right."
I simply shrugged and walked after him into the dark hall. The new info about Nag didn't really make me more sure about my own safety.
After a few more minutes of walking, I started to get bored. I wished only to get back to Tammer and Gaia and save the stupid Orion. Just when I was about to ask him who it was we should see, a bullet swished by my head. Nag pulled me towards the wall.
"Who's there?!" I heard a voice call. "I warn ya, bastards, I'm armed! Come out so that I can see who I kill!!"
Another bullet was shot past us. Suddenly Nag laughed.
"You're just the same, Comnun. Never takes a step beyond safety. That's what I like."
"Huh?"
I heard a click and a few old lamps lit the hall. The light revealed the end of the hall which was a small room. It only contained a few empty, broken bookshelfes and a stair. A vykker stood around 10 metres away with a big gun in his arms. He looked at us.
"Why, if it isn't Nag. What's this? Brought another girlfriend with ya?"
I felt a bit insulted by the last.
"Now you listen..." I started but was interrupted by Nag.
"Uh, no. This is the little guest I've told you about lately."
Comnun smiled.
"Well, well, the little tricker of death. It's nice to have ya here. Follow me."
We walked up the stairs. I thought that I would see alot of test animals and chemistry objects, so I was surprised to see what I saw.
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