Through the portal

XXXIV

JEWELRY

I hide the strings of almost white light blue of hair that want to scape from my attire, as try to not look suspicious and mix with the crowd.

I pretend looking at some fabrics and put my hand under the clothing the covers half of my face and start removing the gold rings and piercings that give me away, only leaving the golden ring in the side of lower lip.

"Looking something on specific, merchant?" Asks the owner of the store.

"Do you have glass fabric?" I ask.

"Of course. I'll bring it to you." He says and enters in his house.

I look around and walk away.

Villagers stalk me with their glance and the people who walk by next to me hit me on the shoulder as I walk, but I try to maintain my posture.

Smells bad, dirty, sweaty, like a battlefield. I hear screams and laughter, everywhere. I see faces full of bitterness, hatred and evil. Everything in this place is old, destroyed and neglected. The walls have mud, perforations from bullets, knives, lasers, gems, spears, arrows, and other types of weapons. Graffiti decorate the streets, retelling stories.

I had never been in this city before.

Why Zion let his city become this bad?

Suddenly I feel a hand on my shoulder and I am pull towards a wall. My head hits the wall and I wince, to then smash my fist in his face.

Due to the impact of the blow I closed my eyes, but when I open them again everything looks blurry. I close my eyes again and when I open them again my vision is no longer blurred.

The man release me and I clean my nose, as he fixes his jaw.

"Where do you come from so clean, kiddo? You smell clean, you smell like a prince." He says internally I frown.

What do princes smell like? They don't always smell the same, sometimes they smell like luxurious perfumes, sometimes they smell like sweat, sometimes they smell like blood, like their rooms, dirt, and sometimes they just smell like expensive soap or lotion.

"It's none of your business, leave me alone." I say and someone next to me pulls out a diamond knife and I feel the tip of the knife brush against my mate mark. I stopped breathing and swallowed hard.

Fuck.

He let go out a laugh.

"Did you think it would be so easy?" he says putting his hands on me.

"I will break that beautiful mark that you wear on your face and I will make necklaces with the crystals from it." He says and hide my hand inside my sleeve.

I take the man's knife and I turn him to the other side. I stabbed the man with the gold knife I created, and punched the other man in the face.

People started noticing what was happening, and started to get closer, so I run away.

My hand starts dripping blood from the knife, and rip part of my cloak and wrap it around my hand.

Suddenly I hear voices getting louder from more inside the long and dark building, and follow the crowd that pushes me.

When I was about to enter the depths of it, a woman stopped me.

"Where do you think you're going? You cannot enter here without an invitation." A girl with pink hair, green eyes like southern Indigo and a scar on her lips, say.

"I'm a merchant, I'm heard Apatite has the best glass fabrics in Rune. " I say and she looks at me confused.

The girl let out a laugh and hit me in my back, and I look at her with a serious face.