"Can you smell it? Can you not? Why? How?"
As the numbers of questions stacked quicker than ever, the young lad was baffled by the very first question but he still picked his nose deep and tried smelling the stranger thing right in front of his nose once again.
"Its....its....its brexylopokosorus! I am sure of it!"
As his eyes lit up with excitement he looked at the man with unusually long and sturdy nose with unusually coloured hair. The man was emotionless and his straight face and cold stare could freeze an entire ocean, in short it was more than obvious that the young lad had answered wrong.
"Brexylopopop? The fuck is that? Are you even trying? Its the seventeenth time already you dumbnuts! Wake up! You bastard!"
The man with the unusual hair and nose shouted in a angerfilled tone while constantly cursing him out but strangely he was not angry because of the wrong answer but was because the young lad refused to wake up?
"Wake up? Am i not already awake? Wait! Who are you? And why am i even doing this smelling contest or whatever? Where am i?"
His own answers from before didn't make sense to him as he could not figure out what was going on around him. Besides him and the man with unusual nose, there was nobody nearby, there was nothing....nearby.
"Young lad! Are ya confused? Sure you are! Nothing unusual, I know you are very confused right now but don't worry! Its time to wake up now. I will keep seeing you around because this is definitely not the first and last time we will see each other."
The man spoke those words, with each word that came out of his mouth, his existence started to fade away like a pile of sand getting blown away by swift gust of wind. As his words stopped so did his existence and the young guy who was witnessing all this could still not make a sense out of it.
"What...was that? Who was that? Wait! Who? Who am I thinking about? Was there anyone else besides me here in this....place? Speaking of this place, where am i? Its so dark but i can see so clearly? Why is that?"
Once again the questions kept piling up but no one was there to answer them, all he could see, all he could feel and all he could do was....wait and he did so too. He could feel the ground below his feet but he could not step on it as if nothing was there. It was like an endless dark void that stretched as far as his eyes could see. The wait felt as if it was eternal as each second passed. He could feel that his exit was close enough but didn't know exactly where it was. He kept trying to grab on to something or at least anything but it was all in vain, swinging his arms around like a newborn child.
"How long has it been already? A month? I can't tell because i lost count after 1346 seconds. Ahh shit! Just when the fuck will i get out of this shit place! It feels as if i have been trapped in this place for eternity.... trapped? Why? Am i trapped? It doesn't feel like it though? Huh? Why did I just question myself? I am pretty sure i am trapped here but the moment i try to mention myself being trapped its as if i am trying to convince myself the things that are not true. Question? What question? Wait what was I just thinking about?"
The deep slumber, darkness that could bring comfort paired with unending questions. His existence itself was a question at this point as he couldn't figure out who he was. He questioned everything and anything that he could think of but it was endless pile of questions with no answers paired with them.
All the questioning, all the hassle to at least figure out one, at least one answer to the unending questions resulted with his mind itself giving up. He questioned no more, the young guy didn't bother swinging his arms around nor did he even think of anything, literally anything. At the exact moment was the moment of his freedom.
Just like the what happened previously with the man with unusual nose and hair, he too slowly got blown away like a pile of sand by quick gust of wind.
He could smell, it was the sharp smell of brexylopokosorus that he had mentioned just before but this time it was different even though the smell was same as before it was still different from before.
His sense of smell was faster awaken than his consciousness itself but following the sense of smell, his consciousness too slowly started to regain itself. He slowly started to open his eyes even though he was having a hard time doing so, indicating if he had not opened his eyes for a very long time. As his eyes opened to greet the light after potentially "very long time" he saw the scenery that was presented in front of him.
"Who is that? She's beautiful but why does she have that sharp blade pointed towards me? Sharp...sharp blade!?"
He admiration for her beauty quickly turned into fear after the lady in front of him swung her blade towards him, in a very strong and fast motion. His body acted before he could fully figure out what was going on, he avoided the a ttack swiftly surprising even himself.
"Z! Are you! Are you awake? You just dogged my sword! That means you are awake right?"
The young lady called out his name with tear filled eyes that spoke themselves. Her fingers let go of the sword that she had grabbed tightly as she slowly walked towards him.
"Obviously i am awake! Do you expect me to dodge that scary attack unconsciously? And wait! Rakia, did you attack me while i was unconscious?"
His tone of voice was carefree and comfortable as if he had known her for a very long time but he had no recollection of any memories with her but surprisingly enough he knew her name too.
"Wait! How do i know your name? Rakia? Who are you?"
His confusion struck him once again even after exiting the previous "place" where he was in, he still could not make a sense out of what was going on. In the middle of figuring out the situation, he felt a sharp pain directly in his brain as if someone was piercing through his brain with a sharp and long needle. He grabbed his head hard while moaning in pain.
"Z! It seems that the recollection has started, please don't lose consciousness! Please! Do not give up to the pain! The pain will be brief but what you will gain after this pain will be extraordinary so, don't give up! Hang in there! Zailos!"
The young lady said while trying her best to comfort his pain.