What came out of the shadows wasn't something that Ezra expected, it was a big serpent albino snake. It's eyes were clear white, it was blind, it slithered and hissed then looked at Ezra straight in his face.
"Nāḥāš?" Ezra kinda feeling a bit relieved.
"No I'm not Nāḥāš, I'm Nāḥ. Nāḥāš is my brother I see he's the one who sent you here"Nāḥ said.
"Well he wasn't really that useful, but what can I say a giant serpent it's my fault for expecting a lot. No offense" Ezra said.
"None taken boy, you ain't afraid of me?" Nāḥ hissed.
"No honestly unlike your brother your beautiful white skin makes me wanna play fetch with you" Ezra teased.
"I see you are funny, now if you don't mind state your business here in Babylon?" Nāḥ circles Ezra.
"I'm here to see the angel who's sit was empty in the Hall of Angels, the one who will bless me" Ezra replied.
Nāḥ raised her head over Ezra, who for his own good was really beginning to get comfortable with these creatures. She hissed at him like a cobra in a defense potion her tongue was a little shorter for a snake's tongue and she swallowed him.
Nāḥ moved around with Ezra in her stomach, she glides with him over rocky rough places. Slithering into different wholes far from the entrance. She swims with him in brown water but under the eclipse, looks like it's black.
Nāḥ comes out of the water and spits Ezra out who was now covered in icky saliva.
"Yuck" Ezra tries to clean himself.
Ezra was now standing in a place called the place of sinners, it was a place with so many entrance doors. Of course he didn't see it at first because it was all behind him.
"Where are we?" Ezra noticed he was in a different place.
"You are standing in the Place of Sinners" Nāḥ told him
Ezra turned around to look something about those entrances doors gave him kind of discomfort, he gulps.
"What is it?" Nāḥ asked.
"Uhm it's just that I don't really have a good relationship with scary black doors" Ezra feeling a bit hot.
"In order to get the audience with the one who will bless you, you have to play a few games" Nāḥ explained.
"Okay so will you tell me what to do?" Ezra asked nicely.
"First you must choose the door you think it's right for you after you enter that door" Nāḥ informs him.
"And?" Ezra waiting for her to finish.
"Choose the right door and good luck to you" Nāḥ swims back into the water then goes underwater.
"Okay, I guess riddles also run in the family" Ezra gets ready to take the games.
He looks at the five doors and can't make up his mind on which door to take, he keeps on moving his legs to each door. Then stops again.
He takes a deep breath then convinces himself that he's going to do it this time, but when he has to move his legs forward he can't. He gets paralyzed.
"Okay okay I can do this" Ezra warms up.
Nothing happens because he doesn't move at all, minutes pass and if he isn't careful just as Silas has told him. Minutes in here are days, Ezra keeps backing up every time he makes a move.
"You are afraid?" A voice echoes in the whole place.
"You got that right" Ezra not realizing that there's no on with him.
"Come let me guide you" another voice calls up to him.
"Come on don't be afraid Bringer, are we doing this or what?" Valkyria's voice called him out.
For a second he almost buys into it then walks to Valkyria's voice direction but something else snaps him out of it.
"Ezra sweetie come to mommy" a hand reaches out from one of the doors, it was shimmering.
"Enough!!!" Ezra shouts.
The voices go silent within a matter of seconds again murmurs echo all the doors, Ezra covers his ears the voices are getting too loud for his own good. He looks at each door hears the sound, all the doors had voices except for one. The middle door... No sound or any kind of noise was coming out of it. It was silent.
Ezra takes a deep breath then goes in that door, inside it's dark he can't see a thing there are no lights to light the way for him. He doesn't have much of a choice he just follows the trail that seem so endless, without expecting it he made it out.
He found himself standing over the edge when he looks down all he saw was a dark endless pit, he looks up again and he saw another entrance in another edge. But there wasn't a bridge he can cross.
"Jump come join use" murmurs call out from the pit.
He looks around hoping that maybe he might find a rock long enough to reach the other side, but nothing. To make things even worse than they already are, the edge he was standing in starts to crumble piece by piece.
"You gotta be kidding me!" He gets out of the way.
All the pieces fall now he was standing on a small piece that wasn't going to hold him any longer it keeps on sliding, Ezra reverses to the entrance. He comes running just in the knick of time just when the last piece falls off. He leaps over to the other side, he makes it then the ledge crumbles. Falling with him.
He hangs in balance and hangs over the edge he tries to rise but keeps on sliding, his fingers let go one by one.
"Come on Err you can do this" he talks himself.
One hand lets go now hanging with one hand which wasn't doing him any favors or good, because it started to cramp straining him. He hears a sound when he checks it's the sound of the door closing.
"Ahhh!!!" Ezra pushes himself up and makes it just in time for the closing door, the last piece of the ledge crumbles and he has made it inside the door.
Then out of nowhere someone pushes him off the ledge.