We spent several days traveling until we reached a place where a man named Amir, this was a short man compared to Matthew I calculate that he was 1.60 and Matthew his 1.75 I know he was a little short compared to Paolo as he was the same height as Joshua who measured according to my calculation 1.78 although Joshua with his strong arms and his somewhat robust body looked bigger to me who barely measured 1.23 you can imagine that I felt like an ant next to those tall men and much stronger than me who barely weighed about 24kg.
At the end of so much sand and sand and from far away the 3 pyramids of Giza and the Sphinx that gave me so much curiosity to see it since it was a lion body and human face, but I loved the mixture, when I arrived Paolo helped me to get off and I approached a man who works for Amir, This confident Paolo tells him to tie me and logically the man does not understand him but despite my situation I had to endure the laughter that Paolo was already making signs to the man to tie my hands and to take almost 4 minutes in that was to laugh if or if, although everything seemed against me that detail of making me laugh I felt that it did me good, until Amir just laughs and tells him in his dialect what he thinks Paolo wants to say makes Mateo can not stand it anymore and says
Mateo: Please can you help him, it's just that seeing him like this makes me feel sorry for him, see Osama.
What I did know was that they had difficult names and I got more confused when Osama called a young man named Madu, this was a boy of 16 years old approximately, I know that he was contemporary with the twins and his height was a little taller, I calculate that he was 1. 65, his skin was tanned and his eyes were light brown and his hair was straight and light brown, he approached me and in perfect Spanish he introduced himself to me and the others, he saw me with a sad expression when he heard that they wanted to tie my hands because I had been given to them to be sold, he could only see those present and without seeing my face he tied me up and took me away from the men while I watched him curiously and when I noticed my distance from the men I said to him
I: Why don't we run away, you know the terrain well, I wouldn't be a hindrance, let's run away.
Her silence confused me and when I was about to repeat what I had said, she answered me with sadness and discouragement.
Madu: There is no way out here, they will find us easily or the worst thing is that we fall into the hands of another slave trader.
I complained and explained my situation but I had the same answer, when we arrived to the place something stopped me and I saw a woman that called my attention with black clothes as well as her black veil, I could notice that she was a woman with burnt white skin and green eyes, her clothes made me curious because although they were covered I could see her beautiful figure compared to other women who wore longer skirts and covered hair or her face but she only covered her face a little bit and not her hair, We looked at each other for a while until Madu gave me a strong tug and I continued on my way, I didn't want to ask her about the woman because she might answer 'nobody' and then I was going to get angry so I preferred not to talk.
A few more steps away there was a big house and inside I saw several children like him and me, until I saw something that caught my attention and thinking it was a bad joke I saw an orc, some elves, and some girls that had a lynx and bird head on their heads, I was curious and when I was about to ask him he came and said to me
Madu: here they don't like people who ask questions, come into the cell.
I looked at him with a bad face and saw how he also entered a cell and without fear I told him: you are rude, asking is not bad.
It was when I heard a voice that called my attention, it was a young orc girl of 8 years old like me, logically she was taller than me, she was 1.58 years old, next to her there were other orc girls and while I observed them, she told me
Orc girl: don't be afraid, you are safe here, my name is Elvia, what is your name?
I smiled in a kind gesture and said: my name is sapphire.
She was astonished and said: great, like a beautiful gem from my village.
As my curiosity got the better of me I asked Elvia to explain many things but the most important was how they were here. Elvia took her time and explained to me from before her kidnapping in the village and the other boys and girls until her arrival in Egypt, the more I asked her about her village and her world the more I loved it and I wanted to know it in order to get out of this cage I think that any place was better than this prison, but my plans had not changed yet but what I did know is that thinking about that woman in black made me feel a little uneasy and I felt that I should meet her even though I still did not know or understand the reason for so many things.
Again I spent several days without being able to sleep well and Elvia, who was a little protective of the girls, made me sleep a little more after receiving some breakfast, but they fed us well because it was not convenient for them to sell us if we were too thin or with some illness.
We were allowed to walk from time to time in the surroundings but in the company of some men when they were long distances, from time to time a man would pass by wanting to buy a slave or future wife for him or his son, something that made me a little angry but in some cases I respected him. Elvia together with Luisa, a beautiful Elf of 9 years old with her brown skin and her light brown eyes although they looked more like a caramel color because of her beautiful skin tone and her long curly hair, the 3 of us had become very close friends and that made me happy because I did not feel them as friends but as sisters Luisa was as much my sister as my own blood sister and that made me feel so warm that deep down I thanked her for it.
After those weeks without sleep, they called the one they called 'boss' and told him how I felt, in a way they were a little flexible with me since they said it was because I was still not used to the weather and after a few days I could sleep peacefully.
In those weeks that I slept more or less well, we were calm, the boss had a change of ideas, he wanted the boys who had more time to learn a little defense, although that could be a double-edged sword, the boss knew how to manipulate them and make them 'docile' as he sometimes used to say.
The Chief's voice: children and humans are like horses, you must know how to tame them and be a good rider.
A phrase that always made my skin crawl whenever I heard it, I tried not to make a big deal out of it but it was still difficult.