Upon arrival, Fayola found at least three hundred inmates, divided into various factions, living a lawless life. That is until the True nature of Ganjini was revealed.
Every beast and parasite is an embodiment of Ganjini, which has only one goal; to shorten the life of inmates. Fayola was currently amongst three if not, then, she was the only one to survive by the time David landed.
"Ganjini has a set of rules", said Fayola, she had calmed down after a while. "a year without night…", she paused, "and?", "two years of complete darkness", she concluded. David stared at her, his expression was vacant, nevertheless, a trillion things were calculating in his mind. "how many days left?", he finally asked. "twenty-two hours", smiled Fayola. Great, just what David needed.
David was not afraid of the dark, he was just afraid of not understanding anything, and that that moment, as an inmate in Ganjini, he knew that he understood nothing. Not knowing anything was something knew to David Kufu, perhaps a new fear as well. "well aren't you going to say something", she asked.
"were you able to get across there", David pointed at the dark void on the horizon, "your highness, there's no way of getting out", exclaimed Fayola. "yes there is, these machines are not real, look…", David pointed out the design flaws on the fried circuit board.
"so?", "so, there's inconsistency. In the real world, they would have never have operated", David explained as he traced the proper patterns with his hand across the circuit board. "okay…", Fayola was still puzzled. "how do we attract another one of those creatures?", David Asked. "Noise, lots of noise", she grimaced. "The creature moves only in one direction, from the beginning to the end, so we'll catch one or two of them and ride them to the end", David explained. "you do realise that you are crazy, right", Fayola sighed.
He wasn't sure what was on the other side. The probability of them dying was eminent, anything could have gone wrong. Fayola grimaced, clearly this was an insane idea, however, this is the first time anyone has come up with an escape plan. It's always a Kufu to come up with a crazy idea, she laughed at the thought. It was equally poetic. It was a Kufu that had the crazy idea to build a prison so inhumane that it would have reduced crime in United Kemet.
Thousands of years later, it was a kufu with a crazy escape plan from the very same prison his ancestors built. "You do know that your ancestors are responsible for building this place", she mocked David. "and it's because of them that United Kemet has achieved human perfection in discipline", David Corrected. "and yet, here you are", "and yet, here I am", David gave his usual dry smile.
"kid, smile a little. You too young to be so serious", chuckled Fayola. "I have been deprived of my birthright, I have nothing to smile about", David said solemnly, for one he wasn't sure where that came from. David was taught never to blame the world, to never take his anger out on the world. He never questioned why he couldn't smile, or, the emptiness that haunted him. For one he knew that the void in his heart was because of his parent's deaths.
"you mean your parents, they died", Fayola mattered. "I apologize, that came out wrong, let's start with the noises", he lied. David Kufu bottled too many things, emotions, secrets. No wonder he never smiles.
Suddenly, a thought came to mind, if this is all in mind then am still me, I am still in control of my state, he thought to himself. "I just had an update", "what?", bewildered Fayola. "can you still nature-shift?", David asked, "nope, not since that oaf a king forsook me", she replied tightly.
For a highly ranked military officer like Fayola to not be able to shift, meant that the allegiance between her and her king was broken. "why?", she asked. "it's time for the hunter to become the prey", she replied.
David began to nature-shift into an Odum, now dear reader, nature-shifting is not equivalent to shape-shifting, it's… well, equivalent to being gender-fluid, so, nature-fluid. The hair on his skin grew darker and heavier, his eyes began to flash gold. Before Fayola, stood a four-meter-tall Apex Tau, with black coated hair and mane, golden glowing eyes. "you are an Apex Tau?", bewildered Fayola, "well, that explains a lot", she added. "Now for the noise, "David didn't, well, verbalise the words. Fayola could hear, like, a voice inside her head.
David's roar reverberated throughout the plains of the Savanah, "you could have warned me to cover my ears", complained Fayola. "there, they come", David's vision was heightened, allowing him to pinpoint the beasts emerging from the horizon. "climb on", he said.
David kept biting and tearing as the beasts came at him, from all sides. The taste as the rotted corpse pressed against his tongue was nauseating. He had to remind himself that it wasn't real, that it was just another lucid dream. That, however, did not stop their bight from hurting. David was overwhelmed and losing energy. Fayola on top, pressed her body against his, for dear life.
For a split second, David thought he saw one of the Lamentus glitch. Instinctively, he roared, even louder than before, causing, Fayola to yelp. The three remaining Lamentus stood frozen as if they were being reprogramed, "Your Highness!", complained Fayola, "what are they doing", she fixed her eye on either Lamentus, equally perplexed.
"They must be reprogramming, look at that one glitch", David gestured with his head to the Lamentus in the middle. Suddenly, the Lamentus turned around, morphed into stallions and began to gallop. "brace yourself", David warned Fayola, already in motion.
The Lamentus were fast as stallions, fortunately, as large as David was, he knew how to decrease his body mass, just enough to tail them, particularly the glitching Lamentus. "hold tighter", David Advised Fayola as he felt her losing grip. The forced speed shearing past Fayola was menacing. "I can't. You'll have to go on without me", Fayola cried. "listen! No one is being left behind", he assured her. He wasn't going to leave anyone behind. The Ntoma Dynasty has already disappointed her; he was not going to be one.
David felt Fayola growing weaker on his back, he was also losing strength, and an Odum at his size couldn't run as long as he was, and he was determined; no one is being left behind. "Fayola?", "do it!", she anticipated his question.