"Tzekhel!" one of them called. I heard crashing bottles and soon it came out smoke from a room in front of me. I heard someone caughing, and a mudokon arrived to open a window.
"Couldn't you have warned me?! I thought that..." he started to yell, and then laid his eyes on me.
"...Well." he continued. "Is this our... problem?"
"Yes." Orion said. He and Kumen took their staffs away from me. Tzekhel walked around me in a circle and watched me carefully.
"The only strange thing i can see about him is the scars." he said. "Why would he be a miracle? Tell me that, Kumen."
Kumen looked around nervously and cleared his throat.
"Well... you know I'm into looting corpses. And just a few days ago, i got up with two bodies in the desert. The mudokon had nothing, but the slig had. So since the mask couldn't be removed, i let him up on my elum to get him here. Suddenly, he started to caugh."
Kumen stopped, sighed, shaked his head and continued.
"Usually, dead bodies don't caugh, so i jumped of to help him. But then he was dead again. It took ten hours to get back here. TEN hours. And on none of these hours, did he breath or have any pulse. Not even you can take that, Tzekhel!"
Tzekhel mumbled something and touched my neck. It send creeps down my spine, and i felt cold.
"Well, his memory is deeply buried. All i could see was the night before you found him."
"What did you see?!!" i yelled, and then regretted it. I looked on Orion, but he looked like i wasn't even there.
"Well, it seemed like a fight. You kept something close to you, trying to protect it from another slig. The slig, with the gun. He ruthlessy walked over to you and loaded three bullets in your chest. Then he took whatever it was you protected. The second death must have been caused by the heat."
I looked down on my chest and yes, i saw three small scars. Tzekhel yawned.
"Orion, take him to 'Hell' tomorrow. He may need it." he said. Orion looked at him like he was mad.
"What?! Tzekhel, I..."
"No! Don't do that! Tommorow, to Hell, understood!?"
Orion looked down the floor.
"Yes.." he mumbled.
"Good. Now leave."
Kumen unlocked the door, he and Orion went out, i joined them.
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