Crimson's Prophecy

The owners of the secrets

They still didn't know what happened to Crimson which is why they came to the conclusion it wouldn't help to worry about it all the time. That was easier said than done of course, but they gave their best to forget about him.

There was no way they could find him with the raffler just as Deric and Fiona had done for the first time to meet him in the Kathrenian universe. It was a mystery to them why that didn't work, but no matter how hard they tried, they couldn't find out why the raffler didn't work for finding Crimson once again.

Sheila in those cases didn't want to keep people in her mind who probably had died because she didn't want to spread the sadness in her soul all the time which grew with each memory of the loss of a companion of hers. If others called that selfish, she could live with that; she just listened to her own needs so that she wouldn't turn into a cold-blooded psychopath.

Sheila, Deric and Fiona spent their time observing Yndrianum quite often. That was the place where the headquarters lay and there obviously were thousands of creatures. Each day they got a chance to see new ones because of the binocular Fiona had taken along with her as the last treasure she currently had found; getting too close to all the creatures would have been way too dangerous although there were some of them who didn't look like they could do them any pain: One of the creatures for example only had legs attached to its body like the ones of a spider. It was bigger than that of course, but the problem for it with the legs seemed to be that they were pointing below its body and therefore it had its difficulties to move fast.

Fiona guessed that the headquarters at Yndrianum not only were the place where some of the humans working for the Cult steered the world, but also where they experimented on new creatures. After all, maybe the creatures didn't even enjoy their existence, Fiona thought. They couldn't talk, so they had no way to express themselves, but everything they brought was destruction, so they had to be defeated no matter what was going on in their brains.

Scarlet and Hether meanwhile worked on finding every corner where slaves were kept to see how they behaved and how to possibly approach them while avoiding them attacking Scarlet and Hether right away. If they said they were objectors, that would be one piece of information too much and the slaves would kill them. Just standing there peacefully didn't make the two girls look all that dangerous which is why the slaves kept their distance from the two of them. That was exactly the opposite of what they had expected and they had brought all their weapons along they could bear to carry around on their trips, but that hadn't been necessary.

They found and went to three of those slave lodgings in only a few weeks - one with about fifty miles of distance to the other. The places looked almost like industrial livestock farming for humans as they ran around all the time on their narrow bridges. Their lodgings mostly consisted of bridges and underneath of them was this typical transparent substance which was nothing but the souls of the dead. When a slave fell off of the bridge that was one loss for the system of the Cult, but at least its soul was immediately there where it was supposed to be.

Scarlet and Hether stood on a few platforms when they watched the slaves doing their job. Sometimes they disappeared without any signs for it before it happened. The two girls knew that they went to planet earth to spread the idea of the Cult on the other side of the whole world which wasn't the Kathrenian universe. Scarlet and Hether only came to this place to observe for now; they had to be patient because it would take them months to prepare the destruction of the underworld - and a few more months if they as a group wanted to follow Scarlet's plan to also completely annihilate the purpose of the Cult by killing everyone who was already brainwashed by it and whose mind you couldnt change anymore.

There were at least a dozen lodgings to come which they planned to inspect in the near future. At the fifth of them, on their way back Scarlet made a halt when they had walked only two hundred feet away from the lodging. She turned to Hether. "There's something I have to tell you," she said.