The Wizard

Chapter 12 part 1

"Missing is what makes things freeze in Time."

Mário Quintana (Brasilian poet).

It had been three months since Igor tried to understand how to create the temporal field in the middle of a portal, still without success.

Ailin, very smart, did not miss the opportunity to help him and stayed close, being a pleasant and always present company. She not only helped him, but was a partner and took care of him who, because of the resemblance to his fiancee, ended up accepting and even liking that attention, which caused him some confusion about what he felt.

Sometimes, in the height of despair, Igor came to think that he would end up being stuck in that time and would fulfill the promise of living with her. He looked at the girl and concluded that it would not be such a big sacrifice, but living without his great love yes, it would be very painful. He ended up having an idea and asked the dragon bird:

"Do you want to take a walk, Gwydion?"

"Let's go," he replied.

"Where are they going?" asked Ailin, who approached them and heard the invitation because Igor used to speak in Celtic except if he wanted to keep something secret.

"I'm going to another world to do some research, Ailin," explained the wizard. "Do you want to come along?"

"Of course!" She clapped her hands, smiling. "Imagine if I didn't want to know another world!"

The wizard opened the portal and then crossed to the fourth plane, in that strange and empty world that Ezequiel showed him, or would show him in a thousand and eight hundred years.

Ailin was dazzled by what she saw. At first, she found the desolate and reddish landscape of the place strange, not to mention that the unusual silence due to the lack of a larger fauna was felt intensely. Despite not being cold, she felt a slight shiver and clung to her friend's arm, who hugged her gently.

It didn't take long and the girl felt that she was transported to another place. The only sensation that said that was the radical change of the landscape because, otherwise, she felt nothing. Now they were in a very large place and with a huge construction, which impressed her a lot, especially the statue of three eyes.

"What is this?" she asked, curious. "Where are we?"

"We are in a city inside a mountain," he explained, looking at the statue. "The people of this world were a little different from us and disappeared thousands of years ago, but they left this strange legacy for the travelers."

Igor put his hand on the statue, feeling the strange information again while explaining about that people and concluded:

"They defeated something they considered absolute evil and the being that I must face in the future is so bad that there may be a relation in the two events," He commented. Then he thought, very focused. "Ezequiel told me something, I think in this world, something that is a key, but I can't remember!"

Curious, Ailin imitated Igor, feeling a slight tingling in her hands. She looked at her friend and quickly took her hand away, with wide eyes.

"Funny, I feel a strong vibration, like in successive waves and it comes from two directions—"

"That's it, my Goddess," exclaimed Igor, laughing and giving his companion a fright. Waves: "well, son, what is television but electromagnetic waves—" Ezequiel's voice vibrated in his head. Excited, he kissed the girl, laughing again. "You hit the nail on the head."

"What did I hit?" asked the girl, happy. "I didn't understand anything!"

"Waves, Ailin, electromagnetic waves. This place is impregnated with them. Now I just need to make the right device for that."