Munzevi Kingdom

I am shouting aloud, without saying much against the universe as witnessed by the Gods.

I willingly resurrected dead door of a cursed trap.Roles had changed.As if Gods were releasing their souls, who had lost thier bodies, as if they were piercing the sky, lost in the evil color of black. The darkness has taken me into its arms,it was incarcreated in a swamp that light found eternal. My soul was foreign to this body. I did not know this body; it was not mine. My body was left in the ember. This universe abondoned by the gods and the msyterious lock of the door fell into the hand of the devil. Evil would not stop sucking souls who have lost their bodies. I could not find the starting line of this time ring, where I slowly sacrificied my thoughts. I destroyed every line of the scriptures with the contaminated poison sword of evil, and I opened that chest, that I should not have opened, surrounded by traps...

Who was Hossana?

Who did it belong to that mysterious pencil, that made my mind rise above the murky waters for days?

And what happened to my mother Elis?

These questions, which surrounded me like a wall, led me to an unanswered path and allowed me open the mysterious door of this trap surrounded by ropes.

It was cold. The day was slowly beginnig to dawn. As I rubbed my eye with the palm of my hand, I slowly stood up. Orange light seeping through illuminated the dark room. I swallowed hard. I felt thirsty when I wet my dry lips with my tongues. My gaze wandered nervously around the room. Yes, I was conscious of what had happened. Where was I? What is this place? I looked at the wall in front of me, as I struggled with these unanswered questions in my head. A huge library with multi-shelf on the wall... There was a window in the room and it was open as a single wing. In front of windos was a blue, long and wide armchair. Sheets hung on empty walls. All of a sudden, when I looked at the floor, the carpet patterns dazzled me.

"Finally I woke up. Who are you?" said in a harsh voice.

I turned to this sound that made me startled.It was standing right in front of me. Somehow I do not get it.The last time, I opened the lid of the chest in that grave and now I was in a house that I do not know about. I had to examine the man standing in front of me once more. He had a prominent jawbone.

His sharp, pronounced jaw; his strenuous angry gaze made me prey. Who was this man? As if my inner voice had collided with my thoughts into a long maze and disappeared.

He could not take his eyes off me, and I could not take my eyes off him. He stood up in a sudden movement and suddenly he came to me.He pulled me towards him at a great speed. He made me stay between him and the wall behind me. How did he move that fast, I had no idea; but my eyes opened as big as they would pop out of their sockets. I looked at him carefully. His jaw was twitching.This situation I was in was not normal.Who was that man?

His black eyes were as combative as a knight who had lost his sword in the dark. The ferocity in his gaze added terror to my existing fear.

" Let me go" I stuttered. At that moment, I had to compromise myself and maybe really beg him; I knew it.

"Who are you?" he said, through his teeth. He squeezed my arm as if he was going to rip it off As if I am under the paw of a predator. For a moment, a strange expression appeared in his eyes. The palm squeezing my arm, loosened its grip. His body contracted; but then he grapped my arm more tightly again.

"Tell me who you are, kid." Once again he put my back against the wall and put his body against my body

"You are hurting me, let me go" I hiss.

"If you do not tell me who you are, what you are doing in my house I will hurt you more."

He looked directly into my eyes. He seemed to take over my thoughts. I was in a desester and this man was destroying my thoughts by force...

"Father Affan sent me back. He directed to a cemetery and he asked me to dig Hossan's grave. I dug the grave. There was a chest surounded by traps. I opened that chest and I found myself here."

"You are crazy." I knew in your eyes that you did not believe me. He looked in my eyes for a few seconds, he looked at the ceiling, throwing his head back.

"You may not believe me; but when I opened that chest I found myself here, in your

house." I persisted. He pulled his hand back in a sudden movement and walked away. He started walking to the other side of hall. I slowly left the room and walked down the hallway.

"Look, I am sorry! I made you uncomfortable. I do not know what is happening. I am going now."

"Stand there."walked towards me "You are going nowhere." he said. When he looked end of the hallway, he harshly grapped my arm and pulled me towards himself. "you have things to explain to me, little liar." he said, in a sarcastis voice.

"I have nothing to explain to you!

I am not a liar."

He raised his index finger and stung it between us. As he raised his eyebrows and wandering his menacing gaze across my face, he slowly opened his lips, "Turn down your voice, you little liar.

"Let me go." I put my hand on his chest and tried to push him. He grapped my wrist so fast that I grimaced with pain.

"Who sent you here? You will tell me everything."

I frowned, obvious to the pain spreading to my wrist.

What did I fall into? Who was that guy? I wish this was all a nightmare. The fear that spreads to my heart is poisonous it surrounded my heart like an ivy. He just made me turn my back on him. He slightly broke his elbow, took my neck between his his elbow and made me lean my back against his chest. I could feel bis breath in my hair bottoms.

"Plea- please let me go" I said by forcing myself.His arm against my throat was tightened. Both of us were startled with the sound of the door's lock on the end of the hall. He slowly opned his elbow and he released me.

"Adrushan, who is this girl?"

I looked to the man behind me, on my shoulder.With his dark brown eyes and dark shades of black, messy hair ; he was standing right in front of me. After he looked me with his big eyes, he took his gaze from me, "Adrushan who is this girl, answer me?" he repeated the question. The second time he was saying Adruhsan. Adrushan was his name? It was a name I 'd never heard before.

"Leon, this is a play by Ohannes."said Adrushan, he is extremely confident in himself by voice. He grapped me by my right wrist, he pushed me to Leon. I lost my ballance for a moment. I fell on my knees from the push. I felt terrible about my body. It is like I am stuck in a big rock...

I closed my eyes with pain as my hair covered the front of my face. When Leon realized he was reaching for me ,focusing on my sore eyes, I tried to back off. Rahi oddly stopped instantly. When I looked into his eyes through my hair, I saw him looking into my eyes.

"Ohannes The wizzard?" Leon asked." Are you sure, Adrushan?" without seperated his eyes from mine.

"I guess so." His voice was thouthful. although ı did not see him frown, I could feel it deep in my mind.

"Why are you pushing this girl without knowing it, Adrushan? He may not be a wizard. I do not think she will be in your way after the last disaster." Leon's voice sounded harsh. He held out his hand again. He slowly shook his head positively as he looked into my eyes. I looked at Leon's hand that handed me , and then I looked at his face. As if he had lost his mind, just like me.

"Shh!! Look at my face. Do not be afraid , I will not hurt you. Get up." I looked daggers at his face without answering. Who were these guys? What did I expect at the end of this?

These questions that chased each other missed the answers that I would have caught up.

"Let that little liar go, Leon."Adrushan said. His name was as strange as his cat.

Ignoring adrushan, he reached out his hand once more. He looked at me with reliable eyes. "Get up."

Although Leon seemed more reliable than Adrushan, there was still a part of me that was afraid of him.

I slowly turned my head towards Adrushan. His predatory gaze was not looking at me; he was looking at Leon with great care.

Leon rolled his eyes and slowly shook his hand as if nothing had happened. I was just going to trust him and reach out my hand , " Don't touch him, Rahi. I'm gonna end this little liar's game. Let him get up by himself."he hissed.

Leon lowered his prying eyes into my eyes after staring straight at Adrushan. I was trebling. As if the ashes left over from my body had been absorbed by the earth, which fed on revenge. Where am I? This question, which my mind did not tire of repeating, pierced the blood-soaked traces of my soul.

I kept watching both of them with wild eyes. The silence collapsed. Our gaze was in a state of war, and I would be the loser again.

"Get up."Adrushan said in a harsh voice. Immediately afterwards, he bent down and

grabbed my arm and pulled me up and he made me stand up.

"Come on, Are you going to tell me who you are?"

"Misha."I whispered in my timid voice.

"My Name Is Misha."

I could feel Leon's eyes on us. Adrushan slowly let my arm. He slowly turned his back on me and walked to the other end of the hall.

"Adrushan, what will happen to this girl?"Leon asked. My eyes opened with horror, and I looked at Leon with fear.

"I will not leave until I know her purpose here."Adrushan said. His back was still facing us.

"You can't keep me here by force."when I screamed, Adrushan turned to me in a sudden movement and looked hard, as if he were aiming his sarcastic gaze at my face.

My gaze slipped towards Leon. He had his arms on his chest, his back against the door, and he was just watching us.

"It was a great misfortune for you to fall into the hands of Adrushan. Pray he didn't kill you."

As if what Leon said had delivered me into the arms of the immortal soul of brutality. My lips trembled with anxiety. My fears were kicking the doors of my chest hard, sticking the arrow to the deepest points of my heart.

The heat that surrounds my body made me dizzy. I was trapped in a pit of black eyes that didn't believe me, and this man wouldn't believe me.

He lay on the bed right behind me and looked at the ceiling. And then his eyes found us, "Leon, This Little Liar is entrusted to you. I'm going to take a nap."The taunt in his voice slammed into my face like a poisonous spit.

"He will not leave you until he knows who you really are and what your purpose is. Come on, follow me."

Out of pity, he was looking into my eyes. I think Leon was the only person I could trust in this house right now.

I've been here, at his house for three and a half hours. I was guilty. I opened that cursed chest I shouldn't have opened. That thought that pierced my mind over and over again seemed to whisper that I was the only culprit for what I'm going through in this house right now. My eyelids were stubbornly closing. I could hear voices rising.

"Why is this girl here?"When I heard a harsh sound, I moved restlessly and focused on the direction in which the sounds came, as I did not open my eyes.

"Adrushan, this girl is so innocent. Ohannes the wizard had nothing to do with it."

My heart began to rumble again with the same anxiety. I kept listening quietly. I had caused a permanent problem in the minds of Adrushan and Leon.

"I'm not going to let this go, Leon." Adrushan said, in a voice full of boredom.

For a while, the voices stopped. I was trying to digest everything that had buried my face in the pillow. I was in the middle of a disaster that would lift the mountains. I fell into the hidden world of my father and Father Affan, a musty trap with a mysterious curse.

A few seconds later, the door of the room I was in opened. It was Leon. He walked up to me with a tray in his hand. He put the tray in my lap. I looked at the soup that was smoking in the bowl, and I said, " Come on, drink this soup before Adrushan comes."I shook my head reluctantly," Can I not drink?"

Leon looked in my eyes an said " At least take a few sips, I do not want you to fall over." As much as I did not want to, I took a few sips of the soup, trusting the sincerity of the man in front of me.

After taking a few sips of the soup without turning down his goodwill, I straightened up by putting the tray on the nightstand.

"Look, no one sent me here. When I opened my eyes, I found myself in this house."

Leon said nervously, " Look, I believe in you, but Adrushan will not leave you without achieving his goal, without finding the truth."

Time flowed fast as my heart bemoaned with a feeling I could not understand. My mind has already erased its footsteps from where it came from. I was in a house I did not know about. The anxiety that wrapped me, did not seem to stop squeezing my thoughts.

Startled by the sound of the outside door opening, Leon turned behind him at a sudden speed. It was Adrushan. From his frowned eyes to my eyes, it was as if he had trapped the fire that gushed from hell in my eyes.

I could not understand how he could be so tough.

"Leon, it's time for you to go home. I want to be alone with this little liar."he said, in a soulless voice.

"Adrushan, this is not a good idea. This girl does not know The Wizard Ohannes."

"Leon, it's time for you to go home."he said, in a determined voice. His eyebrows were

raised, and with his eyebrows raised, Leon left the room with a sudden speed. I held on as the outside door closed. I agreed to fall off a cliff. Leon was the only one I could trust here, but this man's determined voice locked all the doors.

His steps were approaching me. The distance between us was closing faster than ever. He lifted my chin up and focused into my eyes. It was as if he was ripping out my veins one by one and building a bridge from his eyes to my eyes. His eyebrows are raised. He had the kind of beauty that a person could not have. When I looked at this guy, I could not see anything wrong. His nose and eyes, his plump lips, had a beauty that no man could have.

He said," Misha, " in a straight voice.

"Sir."

"How did you get into my house, Misha?"

I paused. I looked at his black eyes, torn from the darkness of the night. I've never been lost in black eyes like this before. This man did not believe me.

"Let go of me. When I opened my eyes, I found myself here, in your house."

"I think you like it when you suck my blood, little liar. I think you've chosen the last day with The Wizard Ohannes. I want to kill you right now."he said in a soulless voice.

"Then kill me." My lips formed this sentence without my permission. I was in the middle of a disaster. I drew the disaster I was in with my own hand. I surrendered myself to a trap I should not have opened.

His warm breath hits my face. His expressionless bewildered gaze followed me. He was so close, it was hard to understand what he was thinking from his eyes.

Looking at his expressionless face, all I could think about was why I was here.

"Let go. No one's sending me here."I hiss suddenly.

"Shut up, little liar."As if his menacing voice had left a sizzling sound in my mind. I looked at him, filling my cheeks with air. His black eyes were targeting me again. He continued to look at my face with his black thick frowned eyebrows and his eyes.

"You're arguing that you're innocent, little liar, but you're not acting like an innocent person at all."he whispered gently in my ear, by putting his fingers through his hair.

This guy did not have a heart. It was like a stone surrounded by moss. After giving me a cautionary look, he said, "You have an hour. You'll tell me exactly what's going on." He rolled his eyes from my eyes and went to the black door behind him. His angry breath pierced my chest like a dagger. I've been meaninglessly watching this guy. The steps he took were shaking my body. Who was that guy? It was this

question that left my mind breathless that delivered me into the claws of pitch-dark.

It was dark. The only light that illuminated the inside was the orange light of the street light reflected inside. It made me clearly choose the room I was in. In front of me stood a large bed, complementing each other with a velvet, black headboard and a duvet cover of the same color. There were shelves on the walls, and the shelves were filled with thick books, candles, strange sculptures. I kept my eyes on the wall. I unwillingly closed my eyes, handing-over my exhausted body to this bed standing in front of me. The raindrops outside hit the glass and easily made me startled. For a few minutes, I quietly looked at the door standing in front of me, from the bed. I had to find a way out of this house. Instead of getting out of bed, I straightened up slightly and put my back on the velvet headboard. My thoughts were mixed like a ball. Although I caught the tip, I had trouble finding the end.

A few minutes later, the door opened. As the light lit in the corridor illuminated the inside, my gaze slowly slipped towards Adrushan.

He had a whiskey glass in his hand. A pair of pants compatible with his eyes underneath.

"Get out of that bed."he said, in a hard voice.

I rustled out of bed without answering him. He raised one eyebrow mockingly.. He was looking into my eyes. It was as if my heart was being crushed under my chest. This guy was proof that I was in a different world.

He took heavy steps towards the shelf that stood on the wall. He left the glass of whiskey in his hand on the table and reached for a book with shades of coffee on the shelf.

"Time to go, little liar. Fall in front of me."

"I do not want to come. Come on, I want to go home." He gave me such a look over his shoulder that I just shook my head helplessly. He approached me slowly. He grabbed me by my arm and pulled me towards him. I could feel the fire of hell mixed with anger in his eyes.

"We're going to disrupt the game of Ohannes The Wizard and you."

I could not understand what he was saying. Who was the Wizard Ohannes?

Why was he obsessed with this guy? I just followed him without understanding anything. We went down the narrow corridor to the outer door. Holding the handle of the outside door, he opened the door. It was a place I'd never seen or come to before.

Everything was stranger to me except the fear that surrounds me.I was spinning around like a mad, trying to figure out where I am. As if I was watching all my thoughts flutter and fly when my gaze met Adrushan.

"This is not Porto... Where am I? Why are the houses around us tree houses?"

This guy thought I was crazy. Blindfolds, who could not believe , surrounded me with sarcastic looks. As strange as what I said seemed, I was aware of everything.

Throwing his head back, he looked up at the sky. When his sun-drenched eyes found my eyes, his lips opened slowly. "You're crazy, little liar. Stop with the bullshit. There is no place called Porto, in Munzevi."

(Translated by Seyhan EREN❤️)