"Are you ready to go." asked Henry who is my senior and not the kind of person you would prefer to talk as his mannerism really lacks.
I replied "Do I have a choice"
"Yes, you can run and throw all your efforts in a dumpster" replied Henry in a totally normal way. This man really has no sense of humour.
"You two can stop your chit chat, Let's begin the procedure now." Miss Angelica warned us. Her name only sounds similar to an angel but her personality is of a devil. She likes me though and I don't know why.
"What procedure mam, I just have to go through this portal and I will be in that damned land." I replied uncaringly and Miss Angelica gave me a scary look.
Miss Angelica stared at my eyes and I stared at hers while uttering the words which make the hair on my neck stand in fear."When are you going to realise the difficulty of this mission. One mistake will get you killed and only if you are lucky. They will torture you in unimaginable ways until you beg them for an easy death. And no, they will not give you that death instead they will show you the death of everyone you love. So for your sake, take this mission as the most important mission of your life."
"Okay" She seems more scared than me. My parents left me on an orphanage. I had no boyfriends till date and no friends who would miss me as much to cry. In short, I'm a loner. That is one of the reasons I took on this mission because no one sane enough who has a family would go to Ardem. A hell for humans. And because Im poor as hell.
We were silent after that and only broke the silence when the portal started appearing.
"It will be opened for another twenty minutes"
I looked at the portal and for the first time saw the magic that the other part of the continent experiences every second. Blue flames like I have never seen before. And after these flames lies a world full with all kinds of magic this world has to offer and from that our kings have saved us for a very long time.
In these twenty minutes, I thought of everything I have experienced in my twenty of life. It has been good and bad but not entirely fulfilling. I always thought it lack something. And now I will never be able to find it. I regret my decision. I should have seen more and lived my life a little more. I started to take my steps back. Maybe I should run.
"What are you doing", said Henry.
"Go in now, are you trying to run after all the money we have spend on this experiment. Catch her and throw her in this portal now, Henry". Miss Angelica signalled towards me.
I backed away but he caught me. I shook in fear seeing the portal and tried to bite his hands. He slapped me and threw me inside.
As I was being thrown, thoughts rushed into my brain. She did not care about me, but for the mission. She wants me to get Intel. It does not matter if I die or live. It's the Intel and she knows that I have no one but the government to save me now. Who am I kidding, they would not care a bit of I am torn to pieces in this piece of hell.
I waited for a long time and I kept thinking that how insignificant I am. How I'm nothing but I want to be something and I will survive for that. I will survive no matter how hellish this place is, no matter the circumstances. I will come back and maybe even find my parents to ask them if they really despised me that much to throw me away like that.
I felt pain rushing in my body like it is being pierced by needles. I feel cold like I'm on snowy mountain with no sun to warm me. I have never felt so much pain in my entire life. Then it stopped. Everything stopped. I opened my eyes and I am in the shade of trees. My surrounding is peaceful and green, so green with sunlight dancing on the greenery.