The door to Jaidylen (Eng. Version)

chapter 23.

Escape from an ugly monster

Sully's view

I breathed a sigh of relief when I saw the wooden cathedral, well finally, this shit's a long time coming! The walk was longer than I expected, my lungs were dead when we finally got there.

The roar of Menko attracted the attention of the followers, lights appeared in the dark night. I looked at the surroundings carefully, not wanting to be stabbed by some cultist freak... "Zoe, what do we do now? It's pitch black and there are Jaidyliners looking at us... What now?" Amari slid to her side and bit her lower lip, even princess can't think straight with a dilemma like this...

Chionelope, the damn god of snow and souls, a great deity of death in the land of Aquatas, has ordered our idiot squad to watch the Fricorìn for the remaining hours of our stay in Aquatas. I knew it from the start, there's something wrong with this Yvaine and her people.

I mean, the hag comes from the Hiândin, a sneaky place that creates sneaky people... Hmm, yeah no she's completely harmless, won't hurt a fly, is hollow to the core!

As if...

This woman could be part of something big and I might be a bit frightened of it, not scared because the big pickpocket Aquatas isn't scared!

The followers came closer when they saw us, I pushed them aside as we walked into the center of the village. I hated it when you couldn't see people's faces, a face reveals a lot about you.

Liars, for example, often twitch their eyes or eyebrows, facial expressions can change in seconds. You have to train yourself to recognize that. But if you're wearing one of those things on your head, you have a huge advantage against that. Maybe Yvaine just wants you to "convert" your eyes or ...

Very bad idea...

We were actually just trying to walk to our yurt, but suddenly a murmur went through the crowd. They all took a step backwards and held their noses. What... Do we smell something? Well, the whole thing with Wayan and Chionelope was stressful...

"We're back here... After sunrise we'll go to the next country, since we got the information we needed..." Zoe said and stood in front of us. They were emotionless and stood silently around us, almost creepy the way they said nothing.

Something... is different here... It's so quiet, before people would have been running around doing their stuff, but now it's desolate... I have a bad feeling about this....

I slowly looked over at Amari, who also looked a little nervous. She gave me a quick nod and I reached into my holster pockets, I've sharpened the sais so many times in the last few days that they could cut through an onyx smoothly. That should be enough...

to maybe kill a god...

No, I can't do that...

"Hello? We... We've come a long way and we'd like to... rest..."

A flash of light from the wooden cathedral made Zoe stop and the followers run towards us. Like a remote-controlled group, they came closer and closer, pushing us close to the cathedral. I was about to lunge when Zoe grabbed my wrist. She shook her head and my eyes rolled up. Okayy, let me have fun too!

The doors of the cathedral were open and a strange atmosphere settled over us. They pushed us into the center of the building and I realized the tables weren't there, it was darkened and quiet. I looked around with a pounding heart, they were definitely not as welcoming as before, we have to get out of here as quickly as possible...