The 3 of them decided to investigate the cave to seek their own answers, will they find it?
The woman invited me to a market, since i'm all bandaged she helped me walk across the desert towards an inhabitable town called Hidea.
"...." She said.
"I'm sorry what did you say?"
"✖️🔊🔇❔" She replied
"H-huh what?" As she was waving her hands around making signs i could not understand.
Is she trying to imply that she can't speak?
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As we straddled through the desert in silence, since we don't understand each other's language. We found a stall with red fabric covering a man from the sun, he was selling jewelries. I reached out my hand to touch the product and
*Slap. He slapped my hand, i look at him a bit confused.
"No slaves, not for slaves, go, go." He said
I'm a bit angry but decided to walk away.
The woman grabbed my hand and replied to the man "✖️" while shaking her head, implying i'm not her slave.
The man looked back at me a bit puzzled. Maybe the bandage and wounds on me made me look like a slave, especially the way i've been walking as if my feet were chained.
He hands the jewelry for the woman to see. I looked at her, and noticed that the clothes she wore were a 'Saree', it's in the books of 'Lost continent'. No wonder it feels like i saw this figure before, she looks straight out of the books, brown eyes with earrings and red gold dress.
The man handed the product and put it inside a black plastic. It seems plastic were common commodity here, I could find nearly none back in Oceania. This continet sure is weird to me.
The woman drag me to a market where there were many people wearing turbans. 'Turban' were also written inside the books of 'Lost continent' series 2. This place feels straight out of a book.
The book portals who the prophet burned the library for. I wonder if that was true at all. Because at this point this place just felt a bit too true for me to understand. Lost continent and the books i read before were mostly a fictional series. So how come is it real?
Were it prohibited for the people of Ocenia to document some information outside of the continent? Did the writers wrote those books as an attempt to spread information of what's going on outside the continent of Belugia?
Come to think of it, Oceania was always a bit secluded place, there were only 15 people in a 200 km square land. It does not make sense. Did they limit the outsider who try to enter the state? There haven't been any babies born in the past 150 years too. Was there a curse that was cast by the prophet so a child could not be born in the land of Oceania?
I mean that prophet lost her child in the storm right? could it be her envy towards others who might have lived safely unlike her child.. i don't know anymore.
My brain is starting to melt from the desert heat. As the woman continued to buy from the market, i looked around and found the face of aman who sold the jewelries earlier.
"H-How could you be here?" I asked
"Portals. Jewel portals." He answered
I backed off and ran as hard as i could with my two bandaged legs.
I bump to a woman who wore a green black saree, she screamed "AAAAAAA- AAAA"
I PANICKED I RAN OFF THE MARKET.
The mute woman who bandaged me came and ask why i ran. I could barely understand what she meant and i answered that the woman who screamed earlier freaked me out
The mute woman replied "🟢⚫=🧹🧙♀️"
I looked at her puzzled.
She continues, "🔴🟡=🤬🤕"
I'm trying my best to understand her language... did she meant green black dressed meant witches while red and gold dressed meant people who were cursed?
She nods. As we talked and sit, someone from the market came towards us. It was a man wearing a blue and black clothes. The clothes were patterned the same. I asked her "what about him?"
She stood up immediately and bow her head down. The man patted her head and ask her "who is he?"
I point my hand at my chest asking if he meant me, he then looked a bit annoyed as to ask "who else is here? Ghouls? No, right?"
I chuckled nervously and answered "i'm someone she happened to save". Then they talked in a language i cannot understand. They were throwing signs like '🔳❕❔📕🌐🌌'
I'm trying to make out what the discussion was about.
"So you not from here? Where you from?"
He asked with his accented voice.
"Oceania" with small voice i replied to him.
"Black sea Oceania?" He asked concernly
"Yes that's right" i replied again
He stomped his feet on the sand and dragged the woman away, a few meters further away from me.
they whispered to each other, Again, in a language i cannot comprehend. Those books never taught me this language neither did the college Tom and Jimmy went to ever taught anything about this nation. This place feels very out of the book type of thing.
Come to think of it, where could Tom and Jimmy be right now? I wonder if they both landed safely back home or were they swept ashore just like this poor not so lucky Orlen here. They both could swim so i doubt they'd drown that easily but the waves that swallowed us was far too big to swim without any equipment, Did they brought any lifejackets? i was worried for them.
The man and woman finished chit-chatting and faced me asking if i'd like to visit the cave together with them.
I nodded, knowing i'd have nowhere to go if i rejected them anyways, i might not know them, but the woman helped me and fed me some food across the way here, i could at least do this for her.
We straddled towards the cave. It took a long journey to arrive from morning til dawn. There were some camel milk seller and food stalls. We rode a camel back to the cave.
As he tug the rope of the camel to a tree, we walked in the cave.. i knew this man was off since he looked so shocked when i said i'm from Oceania as if he looked like an extinct creature of some sort, this man also seemed a bit wary when we first met, This person is finding for something that's what i thought, but what is it that he's searching for?
The woman and the man put their palms on the wall as if admiring it, then the man stopped. He pointed a carving of letters.
This the the letter, which i tried to read yesterday, i could not understand what it meant. I hurriedly asked him "what's this?"
"Portals" he answered.
This again this again. Portals everywhere portals, if portals were so common here why doesn't one open in our continent. Oh the Belugia continent, is it so behind in advancement that we didn't knew anything about this?
"You know how to open it?" I asked
"Yes.." he replied
Come to think of it, if green and black meant witches, red and gold meant cursed people, what does blue and black means?
"W-what are you? You were blue and black w-what does it means?" I asked nervously, afraid that he might curse me and i'll be mute as well.
The woman, stepped one foot towards me and said "🔵⚫=📕🌐..."
This time however, i don't understand what she's trying to imply.
"What?" I asked again
She took one step backwards and looked around. The man suddenly said "i can open portals, which make me a portal opener"
I legitimately thought this man was joking when he said that, but this time he looked so serious i don't think he is joking at all. "So how to open it?"
"By reciting a curse.." he said.
"You mean by casting a curse on someone? We can't do that, please don't put a curse on me.."
This time i'm genuinely afraid of this man, i knew it he was off, why didn't i noticed earlier, i shouldn't have agreed when he said he want me to show them the cave i was swept ashore to.
"This, is connected to the black sea, the middle ocean." He said with a calm tone
"So it means i can go back?" With a happy tone i asked him, hoping i could go back without having to sail to go back.
"Yes you will, you will go back to the middle ocean." He replied.
"You can swim or no?"
"No.. not very well but i will swim if i can go back home"
"Very well, let me open this portal for you"
"What about the curse? Who will you put it on, what is the curse about? I'd like to be able to still speak and hear and also do not cut off my legs, though they are weak, i wouldn't be able to farm without my legs.." i whimpered.
"Noisy."
"..."
Now what should i do..
"I'll cast it on you, you want to go back to Oceania right? So i'll cast it on you, i'm learning a new spell let me try it on you."
This b- i know i'm not in a position to curse, let's just be grateful he's willing to send me back home, he's using me as a testing product but if it help me go back home i'll take the risk. Let's just hope he doesn't fail.
He pulled my shirt up and wrote a symbol with his index finger. The finger which he spit saliva on before touching my chest. This feels nasty i will not lie.
"🌐🌌🌐🌌🌐"
"📕📕📕📕📕"
"💧🩸💧"
Then he tore my skin a bit with his nails and it bled. He smeared the blood with his thumb and stare at it.
At this point i'm a bit disgusted. and confused. yet still hopeful that this will work. "Will it work?" I asked.
The woman in red and gold finally speak "🤫🤐"
Basically she told me to stay quiet.
That off-looking man then spat on his thumb. First he spat on my chest, tore my skin take my blood and now spat on the blood. This bizzare head of his is what a portal opener is like?
This behavior could be written in the 50 shades of grey kinky limited edition.
After reciting some words which he muttered in a small voice, he smeared the blood saliva mixed thumb on the letters carved on the wall. And...