This was worse than the time I got me and my friends stuck under the Mtendere Mansion underground secret maze. It was specially made to be used as an escape route just in case the village was attacked and was made like a maze to confuse the enemies. But we barely used it during the attack since the attackers had come from there. People in the village suspected that the forest security had more odds of being penetrated than that of the mountain and the chances of an attack coming from the mountain was near zero.
The no escape problem was not the only problem there was in the room, there oxygen in the room was decreasing in fact their was a spoon of oxygen from the start. I had to find a way out before suffocating to death. The only way that came into my mind was to utilize my own shadow to get away through it. I went to the corner and faced away from the lights. Using my own shadow was not as easy as I had expected, if I tried to insert a hand or a leg, I moved a little and the lights got in the way and offset the shadow. I turned around to face the lights, I thought that way I could use my ambient shadow. The shadow was one or two millimeters smaller and I was not able to fit through.
I was running out of breath, I had less than two minutes to escape. I persisted to use my own shadow but everytime it was the same two things. I used the tools box's shadow to get anything helpful from outside the room. All I could reach were just tree branches, that only proved that I was still inside the forest.
I believed that I did not teleport myself there, the invaders must have found me in the forest and darted me before I could teleport then left me in a vault to die. That was the only possible scenario that really made sense in my head.
I could hear an invisible clock ticking, my breathing rate slowly decreasing and my confusion decreasing. It was had to imagine that I was going to end that way without even getting the chance to at least confess to my little sister. Before falling to complete despair a bright idea approached me. I reach out into the tool box to find anything that would work as a nail, screw and a hammer. I found two screw drivers and a hammer not what I expected but it was still going to work. I put my shirt off, with one of the screw drivers and the hammer I pinned one corner of it to the rubber wall the the other corner. I rotated the box so that it's length could become a height and make it taller. I placed the unpinned corners on the top on the box and placed the hammer on them. This blocked the lights and casted a large shadow under the shirt. I did not waste time to jump into it to get back to the place I was before and reached there from from a tree.
After making my last minute escape, I inhaled a lot of oxygen like I wanted to store the rest for future usage. I still did not have an idea of what was the actual location of the room. My prediction then was that it was an underground laboratory which carried experiments that did not need oxygen. The rubber wall must have been the results of the experiments and was the room was cut off from the rest of the laboratory.
I had made a mistake while practicing to end up in a place I would never want to go in my whole life. My practice focused on how I pop out of the shadows but the location. I redid my practice which I nailed after twenty four trials. The last four was were to ensure I had the hang of it. It was harder than the first practice since I had to concentrate harder to connect with the shadow I wanted to come out of. I run out of enough Enerflux doing the twenty fifth trial and couldn't make it to twenty six. I was so excited that I kept going without relaxing, after I run out of Enerflux I sat down to relax. My body was burning and I could not very well feel some parts of it.
I had to find food for myself inorder to replenish my energy. The important thing I had forgotten was to use my teleportation and get fruits from the trees. Now that was impossible to do and I could not climb them since they were way tall. I could not go to the village exhausted and weak that was sacrificing myself to the invaders. The remaining place that had food and was close to me was the QUALIMART. The market was given a special name appreciating the good raw ingredients that were found there. Ofcoarse the invaders were there, so were the Hands. Since the market was established the Hands were coming everyday to get raw materials and to secure the area. They were working hand in hand with the Balanor to maintain order at the market.
The market was close to me that I could hear noises coming from there. With what was remaining of my stamina I begun a journey to the market. I took a lot of minutes to get to the market than I normally could, I was stopping a lot to sit down along the way to rest. Activities at the market were going on as they always did. The village was attacked yet supplies were still coming to the market. I could have thought that I had really managed to get back to the village before the attack if I had not seen men who were dressing the dark grey tactical nylon Balanor uniform but with unfamiliar faces and the guns that belonged to the invaders. They must have had Floramancers among them that kept making the raw ingredients.
"What else do they have prepared."