A Myriad of Mysteries

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"Reyzenar..." she mananged to mutter his name before she too glowed and vanished. 

What is happening?

"You are being transported somewhere."

What happened to Reyzenar?

"He is also being transported."

How do you know all of this?

"I am not sure how, I just do." The dagger concluded.

She looses her grasp on her conciousness as her eyes started to feel heavy. When she reopened them, she saw a cave with other caves merged within it. It looked like an ant's colony.

"Where am I?" She quietly asked herself.

"I don't know," a small gentle emotionless voice spoke from behind her.

She bolted up and clasped her dagger but never revealed it. She found a child behind her. He was standing still like a statue. His hair was a shaggy black mess. His pupils were also pitch black like the starless night. It reflected her image. A girl who was alone and afraid.

"Who are you?" She asked him. Her grip slightly loosened.

"I don't know," he answered back as he shrugged his shoulders.

She let go of her dagger and slowly approached him. She noticed that his left eye had a giant straight scar.

"What happened to your face?" She interrogated as she stood up straight.

"I don't know," he answered again, as emotionless as before.

His eyes are black and so are his strands of hair. Is he a conjurer?

"No, he is not," the dagger answered. "But he is not a human either."

Then what is he?

"I do not know."

"What is your name?" She asked him again not hoping for a different answer. 

"I have no name," he answered.

Eirisinia was taken a back. She thought he would give her the same answer as before.

"How did you get here?" She asked as her eyes wandered the giant cave made of stone and mud.

"I made this place," he told her. His words were cold, blunt and short. Similar to his under developed physical stature. She glanced once more around the cave. It truly looked like a giant ant colony. It was full of tunnels within tunnels. Passages within passages.

"Do you know how I got here?" She aksed again fixing her eyes on his empty gaze.

"You fell," he paused and pointed a finger upwards, "from there..."

She glanced up and saw a swirling portal made of light high above her.

"Was anyone with me?" She pestered.

"I don't know," he answered.

A thought was forming in her head when she suddenly heard a scream from the distance.

"Heeeeeyyy!" A man's voice echoed across the semi-lit cave. "Are you there kiiiddd?!"

The boy behind Eirisinia started walking towards the screaming voice. He moved like a soldier heading towards his king. 

"Wait," she followed him. "Where are you going?" She strided to follow him. As she took a step, her foot felt a stabbing pain. It must have taken impact when she fell earlier.