Aah, more people wasting their free time on... stuff... Anyway, thanks guys. And Roop, it's hard enough for me to read it to find things, so I'm not surprised that you can't stand it all. Mysterious twist... I like that. Oh yeah, to the egde of what? Warning, this chapter/part/anything might get boring in sometimes around the beginning. People without special interest shouldn't read.
What I saw was books, papers, maps, pictures and unfinished sketches everywhere. I thought I would see chemistry stuff, but all this different kind of science wasn't even expected. I just stood by the end of the stair and looked around me. Nag and Comnun walked away a bit and talked while I stared at the things. I noticed a small bed-like thing in a corner and in the middle of the room was a table and a chair. I was quite amazed.
"Well then, Gold..." Nag said and cleared his throat, "I assume that you're confused, so let me clear a few things up. Comnun and I are refugees. We hide from the world down here in our little den, I sometimes pretend to be a guard up there just to steal food."
"If you can call that awful stuff food." Comnun grumbled.
"That sometimes gives me trouble, the guard stuff, but I mostly sort it out. I got to know Orion up there. He's the only mud that has ever knocked me down. We can't go back right now, people is most likely concerned about the missing guard, no, slave it was. Me."
I nodded. For once things was completely clear.
"Comnun and I does some researching. We have studied the skies outside town."
"Really long outside town." Comnun added and drew another line on a paper on the wall. "The sky is freaking dirty here, you can't even see the moon through this cursed cover. Some kids haven't even seen the sun."
Nag nodded.
"Yeah, right, whatever... Anyway, we have a few skills in astrology and such. Lately we have seen alot of strange stuff. The stars and everything up there is doing exactly what the prophecies in 'The holy book' said that they were gonna do. So either the world will end or some weird stuff will happen."
I doubted the last words he said.
"What does this has to do with me?" I asked them. They looked on each other.
"The prophecies speaks of a golden slig without a name. We believe that's you." Comnun said and stared in a almost expecting way at me. I stared back. My head suddenly exploded in questions. Just because my mask is golden, I was a 'chosen' slig? What was the holy book? How could I trust them? I took a deep breath, I probably tried to calm down.
"Alright, first question. Can I really trust you?" I said and let my concentration jump between them.
"No, you can't trust anyone right now, but I think you should trust us." Nag replied.
I shrugged.
"Sounds reasonable enough. What is the holy book?"
"It depends on the way you see it. Some doesn't care about it, some people, like us, finds it a collection of wise stories that gives you help and advices, some people, like you, don't even know that it exists at all." Nag said and sat down on the chair.
"Could I read it?"
"Oh, please. You'll have all the time in the world to read it soon enough." Comnun said in a strange thone. That sort of striked me in a sensible way.
"Do you know who I am?" I said while I wished that they would say yes.
"No, but if we knew, this whole thing would be much easier. Sorry." Nag answered. He turned to Comnun and whispered something. Then he turned to me again.
"Remove your mask." he said, sounding like a tough and commanding general of some sort. I tried to say that my arms didn't wish to cooperate. His eyes sort of said 'Well?'. So I forced my arms to the mask and searched for the lock. I stood like that for a while.
"Nag, I can't remove it." I said, waiting for a confused and/or surprised Nag. He just nodded. He walked away to the bed, picked something up and threw it on me. It was a bag.
"Put it on and put the gun in it. Now we're going to find your friends."
I did what he said, smiling. Finally, I would do what I came for.
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