Hmm ??
Where am I?
I woke up in a city engulfed in flames?
Even though the houses around me are engulfed in flames, I don't feel any heat.
And the city is completely different from mine, the houses are made only of wood, on the streets and among the buildings are many trees much taller than the houses.
I try to look at the sky, but I can't see it because of the flaming leaves.
Maybe I can find someone here.
"Hey! Is anyone around? Hey!"
I shouted for a few minutes but no one answered, I also checked some houses but still without luck.
I still have a hesitation to go into houses engulfed in flames, even though I don't feel anything when I stand in the fire.
I keep walking down the alley and reach the main road, there are no more trees and houses along the road, finally, I can stay away from the flames.
I run out of the alley and stop in the middle of the road, I look around but I still can't find a single person.
If I keep going forward I'll get to the exit of the city, but I'm not interested in getting out of the city, so I'd rather go to the castle, maybe I'll find something more important.
I turn 180 degrees, my eyes stay blocked at the thing that is in the middle of town.
I look higher and higher until I can see the peak of that thing.
A tree?!
Are you kidding me!? That thing have more than 100 meters!
Not to mention it has buildings all over its stem.
I really need to see this, especially since it's the only 'building?' what's not on fire, I'll probably find someone there.
-15 minutes later-
I finally arrive in front of the tree, I take a look left and right but I can't find any entrance, I'll probably find one if I go around it.
It's much more reassuring to walk by the tree, the houses are over 20 meters away from it, probably that's why the fire didn't spread to the tree.
But still, it's incredible how the houses are attached to the tree stem, now that I'm closer I can see the bridge made of rope that connects certain houses.
But how to get there in the first place?
I walk a little further and come across a double door as big as the one in my castle, it has a very strange pattern on it, a huge circle and each door has half on it, the handles are placed inside the circle, in the places where they are attached to the door several threads are carved that do not come out from the inside of the circle.
I put my hands on the handles and start to pull, but nothing happens, the doors don't even click.
I struggle to open the door but to no avail, I leaning my head on the door handles and gasping a little bit.
The door starts to shake, a blue light shines through the wires and the door begins to open on the outside, I step back and wait to see who opens the door, it opened but no one is inside.
"Hey...! Is someone here?"
No answer.
I take a look inside the room before entering, it looks like a library, shelves full of books, so high that they touch the ceiling, a staircase leading to the next floor located in the middle of the room and tables full of documents.
I go inside and walk towards the table that has several sheets spread out on it.
The sheets are arranged in such a way that they form a map of the world, it has areas drawn with blue and brown.
On the map are written quite short words, probably the names of the towns.
I pull a chair out from under the table, sit down and start looking more closely at the map.
"I can't believe it." The characters used to write on the map are identical to the ones in the books that are in the secret room.
Does that mean, this is how our world has looked like?
That's incredible!!
No, it's no good jumping straight to conclusions, this map is completely different from ours, not to mention, in all the books I've read I've never heard of a tree as big as this one.
So many questions I don't know the answer.
"Ahh..." I put my elbows on the table, the face on palms and begin to sink into my thoughts.
"Aaaa...!!"
What was that? A scream?
So there are people here! I get up from the chair and run to the stairs.
Step by step, I climb faster and faster, floor by floor, but I still don't hear any voice.
Did I imagined? There's no way, the tree is very tall, probably if I climb a few more floors I'll reach it.
-5 minutes later-
"Ha, ha, ha, ha, haaa! REVENGE! REVENGE! REVENGEEEEE!"
"Noo! Forgive me! Please! Aaaa!"
I'm close to them, I'll be there soon.
I climb 2 more steps and enter a corridor where I cannot see the end of it.
I can't hear anything. It doesn't matter, in one of the rooms it must find it.
I open the first door on the corridor, nothing, second one, nothing, third one, nothing, fourth!!!