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Chapter 3 - Back to square one

João raised his head and opened his eyes in a frightened and brutal way, but he felt something he couldn't express. After a long sigh, João broke into a long smile, raised his head to the sky and shouted: "I am alive!"

A beautiful field of flowers, a gigantic windmill and scattered houses, it was here that João was at that moment.

"Are you alive?" (Diana)

"I guess so." João replied as he got up.

"Well, what's the plan?" João asked when a light breeze hit his face.

"I do not know." Diana replies while cleaning her beautiful feather hat.

"Wait, did you throw me off a moving train with no plan?" Asked João, extremely surprised and a little angry.

"Exactly" Diana replied with a big smile on her face.

"Let´s go to Novo Porto, i think we can arrive if we follow the train line," says Diana, while picking up the rifle that was on the ground.

"I don't think it will take long, maybe 20 minutes at most, so let's go."

"The army was chasing me, but you still helped me." João asks as they walk to "Novo Porto"

"Why?" (João)

"You needed help and I helped you" (Diana)

"Got out of the way, asshole!" It was what João heard while disturbing the traffic, in the middle of large buildings, cars and people. Something he had never seen before, a really big city.

João looked from side to side marveling at a reality he had never seen before.

"You look like a child. Anyway, I rented a hotel room nearby, let's spend the night there, "said Diana, holding João's hand in fear of losing him.

When opening the doors of the room rented by Diana, João noticed an copper object on top of a small desk. "What is that?".

"A candlestick phone. Have you never seen one? (Diana)

"Of course I already saw a phone... I think" (João)

After throwing herself on the only bed in the room, Diana said, "You're going to sleep in the armchair, do you understand?"

"I don't think I can complain." (João)

"So good night." (Diana)

"Won't you play useless?" (unknown)

When João opens his eyes, encouraged by the voice he had heard, while with his head down, nothing is seen except a chessboard.

"Then?" (unknown)

When João raises his head and with his eyes wide open, he ends up seeing a completely black being, with a mouth and red eyes.

Joao, suddenly startled, gets up from the chair he was sitting on before, looking around him, you could see nothing but an infinite white. When João looks back at the scary figure. The figure looks at João with a smile and says calmly: "Bu".

With a loud and desperate cry, João falls from the armchair that was sleeping before, waking Diana who quickly grabbed the rifle that was beside her on the bed.

"What happened?" Diana said scared.

"I think I just had a nightmare." (João)

"Whatever it is, the sun has already risen, I will take you to a place" (Diana)

After going down the stairs of the hotel, in the main hall Diana staring at 2 men in black says to João: "Let's speed up the pace"

After passing through several strange paths, Diana and João end up in a small staircase.

"Where are we going?" (João)

Being ignored by Diana as soon as they go down the stairs, João notices a terrible sewer around him: drops falling from the ceiling, rats walking freely on the floor and a terrible stench.

Going deeper into that sewer guided by Diana, João was desperately thinking of getting out of there as soon as possible. But in the background, a small light beside a door was showing.

After minutes of silence when approaching the door Diana said: "We are here.".

Nothing more than a gigantic underground base. It was the vision that João had when Diana opened that mysterious door completely.

"Let's go?" (Diana)

While João followed Diana, the number of people in that place was remarkable. People who laughed non-stop, drunk and armed. Until, between the various doors of that place, Diana finally found the door she wanted.

"Darling! I'm back." Diana screamed as she jumped into a man's arms.

When the eyes of the mysterious man were fixed on João, all doubts about the man disappeared.

That man was Thomas Aníbal. It was the same man who accused him of terrorism, the same man João was trying to escape from.