Fly Until You See The Light

Wastelands - Chapter 8

Sentinekka walked across the Battlfìefield and, now, she is trying to activate the gate of the temple. 

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When the Darkness won the last war, the Elder Tsadi told to his assistants - probably to his Lightseeker too, but it's not much likely. Maybe just assistants? - to build an entire gate made of the most resistant metals that could protect future explorers from the Creatures of the Darkness, the Krills. They obeyed, and now here it is, the gate and the temple, the place that I'll reach after two days.

I wonder if the Elder is fine: the last time I saw him he just told me to say hi to Lamed for him and disappeared into the unknown like the Elders always do. Why do they do this? They never talk much. Ayin is the one who is the most talkative, but he often sleeps.

Do they want to look more mysterious? Or dramatic? Well, who knows, diary. Who knows. 

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Sentinekka fiddles with her stone of the Vault and, suddenly, beads are created on both sides of it. By aligning themselves, they give rise to a type of necklace.

She gasps, amazed. Should she... Wear it? Maybe it's helpful, so the stone won't get lost.

Sentinekka puts the new jewel around her neck and, then, she smiles. It looks so pretty!

Meanwhile, the jem of the mechanism of the temple begins to shine: the gate is opening. If she doesn't walk inside of it, Krills will start to come and haunt for her.

The young girl fastly walks inside of the temple. She did it, she can finally rest.

The sparlkes from a Winged Light that she already took during her first time in the temple look warm.

Sentinekka reaches them, leans against a column and lets the Light make her feel safe. She smiles, glad that she's already feeling better. A Winged Light's power always helps, no matter where or when!

The temple is large and big, and it's greenish and dark colors seem to be made just to scare the little ones who cross the Kingdom just to go in the Eden, but she knows that, in the past, that place used to be different. Does the Elder of the Wastelands miss it? He probably does, after all... This was and still is his home... And it got corrupted. She feels sad for Tsadi, if he doesn't.

There's pollutted water in there too, but it's not much. It's ignoreable.

And, after all, she just saw a whole realm made of dead water. She's used to it.

Usually, when someone reaches the Golden Wastelands, they realize that something went wrong, that this journey isn't a "funny thing". It's nice for sure: you meet new people, you see many different enviroments, you greet the dead people of the past and they treat you as a friend... But you see and understand too much, now. You start to think that staying at home was actually a good idea and that you shoulnd't have started the adventure... But that's what most of the people think. Sentinekka doesn't. She loves the Kingdom, even thought her real home will always be her favorite place.

She never believed the others when they said that the journey was a "trap made by the Elders to make people give their Light". She never wanted to believe to them.

But what if they're right?

What if they know more?

She is going to discover it. She won't ask anything to Tsadi or Lamed. She needs to listen to another version, the one of someone who people don't like anymore.