She was unable to elucidate whether it was the reality or she was dreaming. Still one thing was fixed, if she took more time then her heart might stop beating.
All of sudden, She felt an unbearable pain in head. As her head started hurting, her legs started to lose their strength as well.
She fell on the ground. While sitting on her knees she grabbed her head with both of her hands.
'Ahhh..It's hurt! It's hurt like hell.' she screamed.
Some drops of water came out from her eyes as she closed them. The pain was intolerable.
'Child'
She heard a voice but she didn't pay attention because her head was killing her.
"Child!" again that mysterious voice echoed.
'Ahhh' In response, she screamed in pain again.
"Child? Are you alright."
"You fu**king idiot! You think I would exclaim if I were alright." Zoe wanted to yell at that person. Was he blind? Didn't he see her how miserable she was?
Zoe bit her lower lip as hard as it began bleeding.
For her it was the detested moment when someone got her feeble side. However, she was powerless right now and there was nothing she could do.
After some seconds, the pain was reduced and it became tolerable. She took a deep breath and dropped her hands weakly.
She turned her head right to left and left to right, then up to down. Her eyes were searching for the person who was calling her.
She provided enough time to look for him and, When she didn't find any trace about his presence she shrieked. "You! Where are you?"
Though her voice was loud enough to reach anyone's earhole but No one replied.
Zoe pressed her lips together. Maybe he could be the person from whom she could collect some information. But she lost him.
"Heh! A moment ago, you were screaming with so much care and heed when I was unable to do negotiation. Now when I'm ready to talk, you've turned mute. Are you playing with me?" She evoked him.
Even though he wasn't responding, still she could give one more chance. Who knew maybe it worked.
However, there was no reaction.
"Hey!" she shouted.
Still, she didn't get an answer.
Zoe also turned silent because her head was still hurting and her body was exhausted. It was as if she got a volumetric beating. She didn't really have energy to yell further.
She gritted her teeth. 'That asshole! He vanished.'
Zoe was burning in anger. He was an important clue yet he slipped from her hands. She wasn't hoping for a great aid from him. But, At least, he could inform her about this place. However, it was useless to cry for split milk. What's gone is gone.
She needed to think another way and for that it was essential to cool her head. Hence, she seated herself comfortably on the cold ground.
After a sufficient gape of silence, she heard his voice again. "Child!"
"So! You are alive." She scorned while suppressing the annoyance.
"Child!"
"You! Don't tell me, you don't know anything aside this stupid word 'child'. You fc*king asshole." Though she planned to be soft but her temper raised here again.
It was because she ignored his sound because of her headache before but now she could get it clearly and It was quite irritating to hear that word again and again. On the top of that, It became more vexing when the other person was repeating it with so much concern.
What actually his honey word was doing, it was scratching her old wounds.
"You are uncivilized, child" He complained.
"Really!"
"Yeah, child."
"For the fu*k sake stop calling me that" she roared.
"Do you hate it when I call you child."
"Are you pig-headed? Can't you read my tone or am I looking, a maniac person in your eyes who loves to shout for fun?"
"Okay, then How should I address you?" He asked, his voice was polite as usual.
"Zoe!"
"Zoe" He repeated.
She oversighted his tone and scrutinized everything around one more time then mumbled. "It's all fu*king black."
"I have to say it, you don't have tact and good manners. Zoe"
"Oh yeah I will care about those fuc*king manners and tacts when my life is on the line" She returned with her same audacious attitude.
And he responded with the same mildness. "Who told you that?"
'Well, here is no one with whom I do gossip. But Yeah, it was my bloody head which almost exploded a while ago."
That person: "_"
"Just how much foul mouth she is." He thought.
"So, who are you? Where am I?
"If you asked something from someone with so much haughtiness, no one would help you out. Child." He reminded her, an important part when one did conversation with others.
His statement gave her a break. She considered his advice. She should be a little modest. Then she notified him with a soft tone. "First of all, Don't call me by that word. I have already told my name. And second, I don't want help from anyone. It's you who will tell me where I am. Moreover it will not count as aid because there can be only two possibilities. One, it was you who brought me here. Or second, we both are trapped here. Either way, you are not helping me."
"You are not only uncivilized but you are also arrogant."
"Oh really! Then I will take this as a compliment. T.H.A.N.K Y.O.U" Not getting affected by his complaint She mockeried.
"_"
"Show yourself."
"You are too pretentious for that. Child!"
"Okay, I will control my tongue if you show yourself and don't call me by that word"