The Dance Part II

Adam found himself at a familiar alleyway. He could feel the air, which was stale and warm. This was in Angkara. He looked at his right, and found a building at the end of the alley, with its oblong brass door. He walked slowly to the door, struggling to found out what could this vision was trying to say to him. This was the outside of the building where Marco was found dead. He touched the door, couldn't find a way to open it, so he just retreated. Should he just bang them?

But then he heard something from behind him. The sound of footsteps of a person running towards where he was. A figure emerged from the darkness, huffing, and puffing. It was Marco, wearing his black leather jacket.

"Marco!" he tried to call for him, but Marco didn't seem to hear anything. The man kept on running towards the door and banging at it.

"JULIAN! OPEN UP! IT'S MARCO!!" he shouted while banging desperately. His face was horrified, he was crying, but the tears were mixed with his sweat. This was the night he died.

Could Adam save him now? Tell him not to enter the brass door? Would Marco be alive if Adam told him now that he was going to die? Marco didn't seem to notice he was there, so that would probably be just a fantasy. His desperate hope that somehow he could change the past, meeting Marco again, and told him he was sorry. At least he could try.

"Ma... Marco..." Adam tried, "... don't enter the door..."

But then all of it gone in a puff of smoke, and the sudden sunlight shocked Adam so much he thought he was in front of an explosion. He crossed his arms in front of his face to cover himself, but then he realized that the scene was simply shifted to a daylight scene. He found himself once more in that airy and beautiful hilltop. The sky was blue and the white clouds gloriously moved in one direction above his head. Different from the last time, now the hill was full of people. They were dressed peculiarly, the women wore dresses and the men wore tunics. Some of them wore more elaborate garments, with headdresses and capes. They were waiting for something.

Adam turned around to see what exactly those people were waiting for. He saw the sword that was being stabbed into the earth. Not far from it, he saw Marco again, in his idiosyncratic clothing—his damned black leather jacket looking at the sword hilt, brilliantly glimmering as it reflected the sunlight. Marco walked with very dramatic deliberate steps towards the sword, then grabbed it. He struggled to pull the sword from its place, as the people around him chanting: 'Oroani! Oroani!"

What was Oroani?

As usual, the scene puffed away and slowly settled into another place. It was once again Angkara but badly destroyed. It was heavily raining. Dead bodies were littered everywhere. Adam wondered if this was Angkara in the future, but then he saw someone he knew. The weird lady who met with him when he was in the place where Marco was killed but then turned antagonistic towards him when he was trying to take her to Mayor's Office. Miss Armstrong.

She running towards him, but like Marco, she didn't see him. She was wearing different clothing than what she was wearing the last time they're meeting. She looked like a homeless person, with her multi-layered rags of coats and a backpack. She also looked determined, with a very small hint of fear. But her running was sure.

When she ran past him, the scene changed into a deck of a wooden ship. The only thing that stayed the same was the heavy rain, with dark sky and blasts of lightning, and Miss Armstrong. She was now walked slowly towards the ship's bow, clutching at something at her chest. Adam ran to her to see what she was holding. The hand mirror. He remembered the mirror. It was being held by a lady when she was drowning. He wondered if he was now onboard the ill-fated ship. Then the scene puffed away again.

When the scene settled, he found himself in the blinding desert. Not far from him, he saw Hagar, kneeling on the side of another person who was lying down. It was Y-0. Was Y-0 dying? He walked towards them and stood on Hagar's side. He noticed that Hagar was wearing a pair of elaborate earrings, ones he didn't remember she ever wore. It was heavily decorated and glinting brilliantly. Hagar usually wore simple earrings. Y-0 handed Hagar a thumb drive, and Hagar put it in her pocket.

Suddenly, Hagar was startled and looking at her side. Adam followed and looked in the same direction. There was a rumble at about several kilometers beside them, the sand was blowing upwards and rolling towards them. It was a sandstorm.

But the longer he watched the sandstorm, it was becoming more obvious to him that it was not a regular sandstorm. Behind it, he could see shadows of giant spiders skittering. He was frozen in place, couldn't believe what he was seeing. He turned to tell Hagar to run, but she was already running away, leaving Y-0 on the ground, who looked at him with its dead eyes. He was too late to react to the spiders' stampede, and when they were finally upon him, he found himself once again in front of the domed stone building.

But instead of Ogrario, there was another person, smiling at him with a mysterious smile. He knew her, that was Lady Hannah Domaney, the heiress of Angkara. He looked around, felt that the constant calmness of the place contrasted with the rush of his previous vision. No movement at all. No sound.

"Hello..." he tried to converse with Miss Domaney.

But she was silent. With her unchanging smile, she grabbed her belly with both of her arms. What follows was the most terrible thing Adam had ever seen in his life. Miss Domaney, without showing any signs of pain, tear opened her abdomen, reached inside, and pull what seemed to be her womb slowly out. She held the bloody thing in front of her, seemingly offered it to Adam. Adam could only shake his head in terror. What could be a possible meaning of these?