Hours of travelling in the space later, Mina concludes that they'll get soon to Vera planet. So, she gets close to the padlock of the cage and calls the guard standing there. And when he approaches the cage, she catches him by his neck and strangles him, then she uses her other hand to take her blades gun and she shoots him. Finally, she drops him after being sure he's dead. The second guard finally notices some noise and strange moves in his friend's side so he goes to there and finds him lying in the ground. When he squats down to see what happened to his fellow, the princess shoots him with another blade. Some prisoners see her and they get surprised while she's opening the door of the cage, very carefully, and takes the dead guards inside the cage without taking the surprise, the fear and the anxiety of imprisons into consideration. She takes off one of guards' getup, closes the cage, wears it after she took off her brown coat and finally she hides the bag behind the cage, locks the door and gives the key to one of prisoners and orders him to open the cage to run away in the perfect moment. Finally she stands next to the cage as a guard, hoping that the luck accompanies her in this special and hard mission.
Suddenly, one of guards passes by the cage and he gets confused by seeing just one guard supervising the cage instead of two as usual. So, he asks Mina:
The guard: Where is your fellow? Who's supervising with you?
Mina: He had to go to the toilet.
The guard: (After he knew she's a woman) I see... Do I help you in supervising? Actually this is the best task!
Mina: No, thanks. My friend will come back soon.
The guard: What's his name?
Mina: ... Bobby...
The guard: Bobby... I haven't heard about this name before.
Mina: He's a new co-worker.
The guard: That seems weird... Cyrone rarely accept new guards... He's moody, isn't?
Mina: I totally see eye to eye with you.
The guard: Because you refused my help, I'll go to the cafeteria and drink my coffee; it's my break, and I'll come back to you.
Mina: Ok but... When will we arrive?
The guard: We'll arrive to Vera few minutes later... five minutes at maximum.
Mina: Thank you.
The guard: You're welcome. (Continuing his way) Wait for me here.
Mina: Ok, take your time!
The guard is gone while the princess gets stressed and nervous. She feels that the time passes very hardly and slowly and every second for her is a minute, and the minute for her is an hour...
Finally, our leader feels that some gravity is pulling the spaceship out. Its speed reduces slowly and finally the ship lands and shuts off. Later, the door opens and Mina rapidly takes her bag and runs out of the spaceship. She then gets a hide in a tight alley. She takes off the disguise. She wanted to wear her coat but the weather there is too hot as it's the summer, not the autumn like in London.
When she lies on the wall of the alley, she finds it so hot and burning that she moves away. And when she looks at the end of the alley, she sees "meteors" appearing and disappearing horizontally, rapidly and clearly in the middle of the day. She walks slowly and carefully toward the end until she finds a very clean street containing luxury houses, some people "flying by releasing fire from their legs", and they are the "meteors" Mina saw a minute ago. There are wheel-less cars and more advanced than ours. There are many types of people here besides the meteors: some people are walking on the sidewalks normally without any sign of tiredness and some of them are walking very tired, sweating and gasping, and finally some of them are flying in a low height on the sidewalks made of strong metal and maybe the same metal of Cyrone's spaceship. Black sees also many signs saying: "Burning trees and public property is prohibited".
Really the heat in Vera is unsupportable, especially for a normal human like Mina. Every time a flying person passes by her, she feels the increase of the heat.
Unfortunately, her water bottles are over; she has to buy some bottles. Luckily, she finds a store few meters away from her. She goes and stands in front of it. The owner - an old man with a big smile and huge white mustaches - says, greeting her:
The owner: Welcome miss! How can I help you?
Mina: A one water bottle, please.
The owner: Water bottle? You seem you're not one of us. Which planet are you from?
Mina: ... from Nitana planet...
The owner: The planet of the titan strength! (He picks a bottle) I've always asked myself how you control your super power.
Mina: It's a matter of learning, bearing and patience.
The owner: Rarely tourists come to here. Even the seas and oceans we had dried many centuries ago! I'm really surprised! Why did you come then?
Mina: I'm a ... journalist
The owner: Really?! So where is the camera?
Mina: In the bag. How much does the bottle cost?
The owner: Five Seaks, please.
Mina: Seaks?!
The owner: Yes, seaks, five seaks, it's not too expensive, especially for a journalist like you.
Mina: (turning right and muttering) Damn you Charles! Why didn't you tell me about the aliens' currency?! (Talking to the old man) I... I... I don't think I ... I mean... I...
The owner: If you don't have money, just say it! Don't get shy! Maybe you don't have money enough because you were hanging out and buying a lot of things for your next article or iced water bottles... Anyway, take this bottle as a gift, from me! I always welcome the tourists!
Mina: Thanks sir for your generosity.
The princess takes the bottle, surprised and shocked by the generous behavior of this alien man, one of aliens she had always hated. And while she's walking away, the old man yells in order to make her hears him:
The owner: Don't forget to mention us well in your next article, daughter!
Mina: I will and I'll mention your generous behavior!
After she drinks the whole bottle...
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