Resonance

We were waiting for Alexander to fix the wheel from the carriage since it got stuck, we were down in the rain and the carriage started to break down a bit.

“You think it is time to change it?” —I asked.

“I think it would be the best option, I saw some of the merchants having deals with the carriage, but do we have enough money? Those models are expensive” —Alexander said.

“We have, don’t worry”

Once the wheel got unstuck we continued our travel, the horses weren’t even bothered by it, instead they were hesitant to run in the mud, it was our carriage that was falling for them.

After a few hours we got to our destination, this was a temple, we left the horses inside with food and we stood in front of the door, the place was dark but Beatrice cast a spell before so we had light.

I pushed the door but then Alexander helped me and we managed to get the door opened. Inside there was water and mold, Beatrice managed to lift the light up so it was light having a light bulb, we stepped inside the temple carefully, there were some places where our feet would get completely down.

As we went on we found less and less water, but it was like going to a labyrinth, we had our four cardinal points covered so we didn’t worry about an ambush, and we looked up from time to time to see the light.

When the path ended, we found a passage with stairs going up, we went up and in front of us was a very small hallway, we needed to stick ourselves against the wall and go through.

“Guys, I don’t think I can’t pass…”

“Why don’t you stay behind? I’ll be with you” —Elizabeth said.

“Are you sure, Liz?...”

“It’s okay, we can go back with the torch we had in our backpacks, besides, having Beatrice’s light will be more efficient”

“I’m sorry, guys…”

“It’s okay… come on, Beatrice”

“Understood”

We managed to get out of the hallway and we went out. There was a small bridge, if you can even call it a bridge, we needed to balance ourselves so we didn’t fall down. I went ahead first but when I turned around, I shouted.

“Why are you waiting?”

Beatrice was casting a spell and she started floating and then she recited the same spell on me.

“Ah… makes sense…”

“Are you… disappointed?”

“I… yeah… I wanted to walk like that until the end”

“I can bring you down if you want”

“No, no, it’s okay…”

We floated until we reached the other part of the bridge and we started walking around, the place was empty, but it could be assumed thanks to the mold around, we needed to still go up, finding just stairs up, Beatrice started to breathe heavily after a few minutes.

“Are you okay?”

“Yes… I… I just am not used to this…”

I got on my knees, showing my back to Beatrice and she refused.

“No, I can’t…”

“Come on, it will be only until we got to the top”

“Are you sure?...”

“Yeah, is no problem”

“Then…”

Beatrice hugged my back and I started going up.

“Am I not heavy?”

“Huh? Not really, you are really light”

It took me some time to reach the top but then there was nothing, I put down Beatrice and asked her to do the spell to know if anything was off in that room and it was, after she did the spell, she walked into a stone that activated a door behind us.

We went ahead, looking at everywhere but it was all the same, part of me was a bit disappointed but at the same time, I was with the guard up, it made me tense not to see anything at all, like if it was a ghost town, but it made sense, the temple must have been explored before us.

After going through the path, we find the obelisk of this place, but this was a totally different one from the previous ones.

“Begone of the evil and you shall know peace, get close to it and you will become a demon. Fight against the instinct and you shall rest, submit to it and you shall live eternally. Abraham 3.2.3”

“A classic obelisk?”

“What do you mean by classic?”

“Oh, nothing… sorry… but this one doesn’t seem like the ones we are searching for”

“That’s because it isn’t, this is a paragraph of the book and prays”

“Why is this here?”

“It’s because it was found in here, obelisk serve a purpose of save travelers stories or epithets, and then you can interpret them, for example, this one talks about the darkness that reigned in this temple, it made about the tricks that demons use, they could make you live for eternity but it wasn’t going to be one where you will live happy”

“Makes sense…”

I look at the obelisk and touch it.

“A ton of warriors risk their lives here… do they know?”

“Not really, it is one of the many adventures that people overlook, they prevent the evil to raise in here, but even if they failed, which they didn’t, another group would have been take-off”

“So, we are just in the same as these… brave warriors that are unknown to the public eye”

“They are not unknown among the people who read the true stories like me… but for the rest of the world… they just know the greatest hero, people pray and read but they don’t pay attention, they even had a story outside the prayer’s book”

For some reason, hearing that made me a bit sad, I wasn’t looking for any recognition and I didn’t even care for the people in here, I respect it, but… inside me I felt like we were… alike…

“I think there is no need to write this down, since it is part of the paragraph of a book that currently exists”

“Still, there is something weird”

“What do you mean?”

Beatrice got close to the wall and touched the Obelisk, she then hit it and the wall started to be translucid, I opened my eyes wide and we started to go inside it, where we found another obelisk.

“Do not be disrespectful to the ones that we fight in here, our journey has been quite well, we even had another two comrades, making us five now, even with the memories that I am making, they know I’ll be gone soon, but that doesn’t stop them in supporting me, and that made me feel a bit dumb”

There were other messages write it down in the obelisk, messages made by the party of the one that made the obelisk

“You better get that feeling off or I will kick it out of you, literally. Do not believe we are doing this just for you, we have our reasons. I do enjoy my time with you kidding I will be happy the day you are gone”

That last one was overwritten by another handwrite, I smiled and Beatrice was laughing.

“They sure were an odd group, don’t you think?”

“Yeah, but… I appreciate what they did, they respect the previous obelisk, even if this was made just for them to revisit, they respect people that didn’t even know… judging by the words they are saying it seems that the leader was suffering from something, maybe a terminal illness, what a sweet story”

“This may be part three or five, we still have something to tell find out”

“Is this the one we are searching for?”

“It isn’t, let me just write it down and we will go back with the others, I told you before, we are looking for a location”

We took some time to but when I finished copying, we went back with the group; we find them cooking meat and drinking tea.

“How did it go?” —Elizabeth asked.

I sat down next to her and passed the paper to her.

“Good, but it isn’t the one we are searching for”

I took a cup of tea and started drinking it while I sigh, I was looking at the ceiling while the sparks of the fire went up.

It is not the time yet…

“Again, thinking just for you?”

Elizabeth took my hand but I rested my head on her shoulders.

“No, I’m just enjoying the moment”

Alexander was writing down again the text that I passed him and I looked at him.

“Was my handwriting bad?”

“Oh, no, but I just want them to match”

“Is the meat ready? I am starving” —Beatrice said.

“It should be in a moment”

We spent the rest of the day in the cave, eating and sleeping, I couldn’t stop thinking about the passage. The words made me wonder, when would be the time to tell them already that I am from a different world.