After everything that happened to him during that short period of time, Martin lay down in the tunnel and start to fall asleep.
His rest was of a short time. In the state where his arm was, each movement caused him great pain. He woke up completely went a kind of centipede try to climb on him and in a moment of panic he hit his arm on the wall of the tunnel.
" Aaaargghhh, it's hurt so bad !!" he said and the centipede as scared as he was hurt, fled back in the darkness.
After some time he started to look around him. And there wasn't much to see. Dirt and some roots all around him, he was basically in tunnel who go in a straight line on the ground and large enough to let him in.
" The mole that dug the hole must be huge
...
....
...I hope it was just a big mole that dug it and not some kind of big monster who try to kill me as soon as it's see me."
" But first I need to do something about this useless arm."
He rips his t-shirt with his teeth and wraps it around his neck and right arm to immobilize it as much as he can.
" What about now? Should I go outside or going deeper?"
...
"The light or the darkness, what to choose?"
The idea of crawling through this tunnel didn't really motivate him so he approached the exit and slowly stuck his head out but pulled it in quickly. The giant snake was still there waiting for him as he stroke the entrance just after Martin pulled his head back.
" Drop it man!! I have done nothing to you! " he shouted with anger.
Martin was left with just one option, turn back and start crawling. So that's what he did. With just one valid arm and a painful body. He did it for a long time. So long that he couldn't tell how long he was in there and how far he traveled.
Sometimes the tunnel gets narrower and he had to work harder to pull himself further. After a while no more light was reaching him. He saw and ear absolutely nothing and was guided only by touch.
All he came across was some insect and luckily no monster seemed to be chasing him. Just him, alone in the darkness not knowing where he was going.
Soon the thirst won him then the hunger but he didn't stop. He couldn't.
When he found himself in front of a junction he chose the path which seemed to go up. If he couldn't tell which one it's was, he took one randomly. It's was to late to go back he had to continue.
"There should be an exit. Come on! How long can it be?"
" I going to die of hunger or suffocation if it's going on."
" Please I don't want to die "
He started to cry. Despair was growing in his mind but it kept going on and on. At this time the tunnel was turning and finally after what he felt like days he saw light. Still distant but growing as he progressed. Despair gave way to hope. Martin used all his remaining strength to reach that light.
His prayers were heard and he finally finds himself facing a way out.
"Thanks, thanks..."
He didn't know who he thanked but he did. The poor guy took a deep breath and pulled himself out of the darkness.
The sun blinded him but as soon as he recovered his sight tears began to run down his cheeks. The forest was behind him and in front of him there was a golden field. Far away he saw smoke, then chimneys and finally a small village.
A hundred meters from him he saw a low stone wall that seemed to border a road. He saw a shadows, what he recognized as an horsemen.
"HHEEEEYYYYYY !!!!!!!!!!!!" He screamed as loud as possible before his legs left him followed by the rest of his body. He fall on the ground unable to make the slightest move and faints.
.....
-" Tse ec uq'li tse ne eiv?"
-" Essuop iot! Ut en soiv sap euq ej sius ne niart ed el rengios"
-"Prono a'l évuort xua drone ed al têrof Ed al trom dnauq emêm."
.....
"Where am I"
Martin woke up. He was lying in a bed. He found himself alone in a room with wooden walls. A desk with a chair and a few empty shelves for only furniture. Everything was made of wood. For only light a small window without glass on the top of one of the wall. He sat up and found that his head was bandaged and he was wearing a splint on his arm.
The door open and a little girl come inside. she has curly ginger hair almost red, green eyes, and freckles. She's holding a little pot filled with water. She's humming a little song. She walked to the desk and put the pot down.
'This girls should be no more than twelve years old' he tell to himself.'
" Hello!" Martin say
The surprised girl turned to him. She hadn't noticed he was awake.
"Ut tse elliever!" she shout and ran outside closing the door behind her.
"What did she say?"
Soon after the door open again.
A blond, blue-eyed young woman in her twenties, wearing a dark dress with long sleeves and gold symbols and necklace adorned with a safir entered. She was followed by the young girl and a very tall middle-aged man, bearded with graying hair and black eyes. He wore an apron over a black shirt.
"Cnod-sid sèrpa xued ruoj li ed ellievér nifne" the middle-aged man say.
"Snoyov tnemmoc tse nos taté" The woman answer him.
" Hello, are you the one who heal me? Thank you very much but can you tell me were I am ?" Martin tried to speak with them but y didn't get an answer.
The woman approached, took out a blue orb from her sleeves, held it above martin and opened her mouth.
" TIRPSE RUESSIÉUG TOIV EC ÉSSELB TE ETNOCAR IOM!"
As soon as she say that the orb start emitting light and a shining green mist began to surrounded Martin. But that wasn't all. The blue eyes of the woman turn purple, every part of her eyes turn purple. It was at this moment that Martin had confirmation, he was no longer on earth.
'She is using magic!'