Chapter 9

Once I closed my eyes, I felt myself sinking into a long, endless sleep. 

The dream was so real and infinite, it also seemed to be part of me. Once I opened my eyes I found myself in what looks like a dense forest animated by animals and lots of trees, the colors are so radiant.

I could not help but smile with joy in having a little of my sight in a dream.

Looking around I noticed that there were paths to follow, so I followed one until I came to what appears to be a very ancient civilization.

Women's robes are like tunics, their feet have sandals, while most men have armor on them, axes and bows, ready for any upcoming battle.

Children are everywhere, some playing hide and seek and others chasing each other, I continued to look around until a little girl with blue eyes and hair like the sun, was greeting me with a smile.

I couldn't notice our resemblance.

I noticed that one of them was taking her somewhere, she was not at all afraid indeed she seemed at ease in the arms of the hunter Yautjia.

I wanted to follow them to see where I was going, but something caught me from underground and grabbed me by the legs, it seemed to be like a hand, black and demonic, pulling me to itself.

The hand that pulled me from my foot dragged me and plunged into total nothingness, until, opening my eyes, I realized that I was in a place that was gloomy and cold, looking around I noticed that there were bars on a wall, there was the right to let in some fresh air and the rays of the moon.

Getting up I went towards the direction of the bigger bars, just put my face close and looked in all directions, but this place I don't know why it scared me more than anything, it was so bare, the smell was disgusting, I could feel my stomach twisting around itself.

I was lost in looking at the details of this cold place until you feel the chains, I was afraid to turn around, but I had to do it, here nothing could hurt me, so I turned around and found the same little girl, but this time more grown and in more conditions critical and horrible.

I looked at her like this for a few minutes in silence and when she looked up in my direction she seemed to notice me, we looked at each other like that for a while, and as I looked at her motionless, I noticed that her eyes no longer had that light of joy when she was a child, now they were so tired and sad, then there were the chains, around the neck, on the wrists and on the ankles, there are bruises that have never been healed and the chains seem to give way a little at a time.

Poor girl ... she must have been here a long time ... I can't imagine her suffering and hatred for this place.

Something caught the girl's attention, she was saying something but I couldn't understand anything, I was about to turn around, to see who was behind the bars, but in a moment, again, time and space change, I pushed again, until I find myself in front of a large door with a long corridor behind it.

I couldn't understand what was happening until other people in the distance could hear their screams and their quick footsteps.

I turned to them who were running in my direction, I noticed that they too had marks on their necks like bruises and their faces were dirty with earth, but their expressions made it clear that they were about to be free.

They were mostly women and with them the hunters were at their side too, they too had bruises and others had been maimed and tortured, but what kind of place was this?

As they opened the doors to the escape route, a girl stopped waiting for something, another girl pulled her to her and told to move that Argentea would make it.

Argentea… what a strange name.

I could not help but wait with them for her arrival, the minutes pass and her nothing yet, I was about to take one step at a time, to get closer, but as always a strong and ferocious air made me overturn from the structure up to find me out in the desert.

The structure that I now see is like a castle, black and with nothing around it, only desert and black clouds that blow over it, shortly after I found myself outside the castle, in the distance I see the girl who was sitting in the cell coming, she is running too, but what she did next, I couldn't believe it.

She pushed away the two girls who were waiting for her, they cried and begged her to run away with them, but nothing, Argentea with her hunter beside her, closed the doors of the castle and shortly after there was only a huge bang.

Everything was shattered, nothing was standing, only flames blazing and ash raining from the sky.

As everything caught fire, the dream changed again, I found myself in what is now my forest, for a moment I thought I woke up, but I knew it wasn't.

What broke the silence were gunshots, roars and screams, I immediately went to Arok, I knew it was him, his hunt had to continue, but like every damn dream it ends with him being killed and I never get to save him in time .

Damn ... I'm running, faster and faster and arriving at the same point where I heard the shots arrive, he is there himself on his stomach, without a mask and with a huge hole in his abdomen and still alive and I would love to save him, but I don't know how to do it, I don't have that same willpower that Argentea had.

At his last breaths I approached him and I called him to me, I tried to wake him up, but nothing, I felt like I was dying, panic and fear were getting the better of my emotions and in the meantime I face his death again.

What the heck do I have to do for the course of history to change?

Fuck !!!

I'm fainting little by little, maybe this time I won't wake up anymore, I close my eyes and in a moment I feel myself being pulled out of the water.

Once I resurfaced, I began to take in a huge breath of air and before my eyes became sightless again, I met my savior.

Crying from the joy of being able to see him for a little longer, I hugged him and hugged him tightly until I lost consciousness.

What a strange dream, but I promised myself to find a way to change the course of history, one way or another, but for now I would have enjoyed his touch and his presence and when I wake up it will be time for a long chat .

Once I opened my eyes again, I noticed that it was perhaps morning and that my vision was once again the same as always, that is, the cosmic nothingness, what a bummer.

In the meantime I vented my frustration against the pillows of the bed, I froze almost immediately, I was in bed and still completely naked, I come to the conclusion that it was Arok who brought me here. 

At the very thought I feel my body temperature rise and my heartbeat increase, until from the heat I felt I move to being cold and immobile, because I felt the presence of him, in my own room.

And now what do I do? 

How I explain what I know about him and his species or what happened that night in the tub... I was biting my lip and I couldn't have the courage to look at him or start talking and while I was thinking about how to start my speech, it was Arok who spoke first.

" I don't think we need to start our meeting with you provoking me, so start talking ooman, I don't have much time to waste."

His voice was so calm, but in the same way he wanted to intimidate and now it was my turn to answer him, even if I wanted to put something on first since I was still naked. 

For God's sake!!!

I turned to him with an angry air and with a confident voice in my turn I answer him.  "First of all get out of my room and let me get dressed and then we'll talk about it. Oh ..and make yourself comfortable because there will be a lot to talk about."

In response from him there were only clicks, I think he didn't like the way I talked to him, but he left my room anyway.

Now that I took a quick shower and got dressed I was ready to face the long day.