When I finally woke up and opened my eyes I felt my body had relaxed. I had not set an alarm, due to the fact that I was in stress for the last few days and wanted to rest as much as possible. I felt happy and the body ache which I had before I slept was gone. This was the first time I felt happy and relaxed in the last two weeks. I was always tensed about Ethan's visit.
What added to my happiness was that for the next 2 Zon days Ethan would not be giving me any surprise visits. I was not sure if I ever could get such an opportunity in the near future. I decided to make best use of these 2 days.
I looked up and saw the light rays coming from that three holes in the roof top and I could smell some pleasant scent and I felt mesmerised. This lifted my spirits all the more. This scent was very soothing and I felt attracted towards the scent. I was now very curious to find where this scent was emitting from.
As I slowly got up and sat on the cot, I could sense the scent was coming from a very close distance. It took me a just few mins to realise that I was emitting this pleasant scent and I was startled. Every new day has some surprise stored for me.
"Why am I emitting this strong smell which is mesmerising my own self?" I just put both my hands on my head and sat there. "How do I get rid of it ? Did I really have time for all of this ? I had planned so many other things."
I got an intuition that this scent had something to do with those noodles. I was hungry and I did not know if I should consume the noodles
"Why was Ethan messing around with me ?"
The more I tried to get out of here. soon, the more I felt trapped. I finally decided to skip the noodles and use my energy healing to stop my hunger pangs till I found a solution. I had to find a counter attack to foil all his plans.
I sat on the cot and started my prayers to initiate the energy flow. I drew the distance, master and then sandwiched the intention symbol between the energy symbols in the same order. The intention was set to reduce the smell and to reduce the hunger until I found a way to get rid of this scent which was emitting from my body. And I really was not sure how long it would take.
While the energy flow continued, I slowly got up from the cot and walked towards the kitchen. I turned on my phone to see the charge running out and the battery showing red. I quickly opened the charging platform from inside the wall and charged my phone battery for few seconds until it was sufficiently charged. I had to speed up my pace in whatever tasks I did.
Once done I put the platform back , closed the door and turned on the flash light. I started to look around to find if there was even a tiny bit of the raw vegetable left. I had planned to use this for scanning. I looked at the floor and under the counter and found a tiny piece of root of the vegetable. I guess this would be sufficient.
I took this tiny piece out and then walked back to the room. I picked up the tab and as mentioned in the instructions, carefully looked around the top of the screen for the scanner flap. Once I found the flap, I opened with utmost care. The flap seemed fragile. Once the flap was open I could see a bulged object within it, which must be the scanner.
The instructions also stated to slightly tap on this scanner to power it on. Then I had to just move the scanner a little above the object till a beep sound is heard which will indicate that the scanning is successful. I had to again tap on the scanner to confirm as well to shut the scanner off. I followed the steps mentioned in the instructions to scan the veggie root and patiently waited for the next 10 mins for results.
Exactly after 10 mins, details about this vegetable was displayed on the screen.
Name: Ricama
Important note: To be consumed with extreme caution.
Properties :
^ increases hunger , extremely flavourful
^ ricama releases scent enzymes once cooked. The person consuming this will emit strong scent majorly used for attraction
^ first time consumption leads to mild body ache for the scent enzymes to penetrate the cells
^ Requires 6 powers to take effect and lasts for 4 dias with scent increasing with every passing dia
^ requires careful cooking with specific steps
^ If any step is missed during cooking, ricama turns lethal and the person consuming it will die within 6 hours
^ Dried and stored root of Ricama will increase the lethal power by 100 fold. The person consuming it will die within seconds.
Antidote:
^ If cooked with grey talc powder the enzymes are stopped from releasing. This can then be used as a regular dish
^ If adding grey talc was accidentally missed out, the person can consume a tiny bit of grey talc powder to stop the effect immediately
Usage :
Majorly consumed as a pre-requisite for Yin-Yan ritual
After reading this I felt the sky crashing on me. I was thinking to run out of the dome and become food for ferocious beasts. My thoughts were immediately overcome by the guilt of endangering Ray's life.
I knew the grey talc mentioned was the grey powder and I had thrown away the actual powder. Oh what a blunder I had made. I now knew why Ethan had missed adding the grey powder and the reason behind my body pain
I felt like do or die situation. I had three choices. 1. to give up on fighting and surrender to Ethan which I did not want. 2) Be prey for beasts and forget Ray,Dad and Mom 3) Fight back.
I felt depressed. Had I had not supported Ray that day to go to fantasy park I would not have been here today. In a way I was responsible for my own situation. I could not blame anyone.
I had crossed so many obstacles. I could not give up. I decided to fight back till the time I could.