Mahnu, An Immortal's Journey

CHAPTER 17

It was a good change for Mahnu, from questioning why Eliza didn't care that Thelmos was there lazily slumping or sleeping in the same room that Eliza was 'busy' in. Having thought of having someone else in the room when she was like that with Richard, made her think that those times wouldn't haven't happened like that at all!

Jumping from rooftop to rooftop, she was surprised that it had taken so long to find them. It was already dark now as she came in through the window, near William, and searched for ink and parchment.

Mahnu wrote to Marcus and then woke William up, telling him to not give the letter to anyone else and to ride as fast as he could.

"I know you are probably hungry and in need of rest. But..."

"Understood, I will go. You can count on me." William nodded before picking up the bag, that was prepared earlier, and left. Luckily, he was able to get a couple of hours sleep...But he felt very tired still, unable to go quickly until he splashed cold water on his face when he got downstairs.

Wanting to read the letter, to find out the situation, William could only sigh and remember Mahnu's face and urgency in her voice. He had to ride now, and he had to ride as fast as he could!

Mahnu turned to the town, that now had so many mindless people, and knew that she was heading towards something that could result in torture...But she was resolved to try and talk things through first. She also needed some time to figure out what was going on...

If by chance she could find out if there was more God's or if they had found a way to open The Chest of the God's and anything else that was on the tablet, it was something only she could do. As...If they tortured her, she will heal and continue to try and find out as much as she could.

Not many times had she been thankful for her power of being able to read one's mind, but on this day, she was indeed thankful of it because she was sure they would not tell her what she wanted to know in words!

Their residence was quite unusual but Mahnu didn't care to waste time and continued through a window.

It had been over a thousand years, and now, she finally stood before two of her own kind...And they recognized her straight away.

"So...It was true...One of our own kin..." Eliza stuttered.

"Mahnu?" Was all Thelmos said, neither surprised or emotional. He yawned but did look and start to walk slowly towards her with a lazy, small smile.

Eliza stopped Thelmos walking towards her, and said, "Why are you here?"

"I want to ask you to stop using humans as slaves and live together with them as..."
"What? Friends?" Eliza interrupted Mahnu, and then spat on the floor. "We are their master's! They need to beg for mercy from us, their God's!"

Mahnu sighed in her head and continued, "Is there anything that will change your mind, sister?"

Eliza charged at her, "I'm not your sister!"

As Mahnu lost consciousness, due to her neck breaking, she heard Eliza spit again and say, "You...Betrayer!"

During the onslaughts of pain from her own kin, Mahnu stopped talking again. They tortured her to a point that humans would have died countless of times and that God's could not stop feeling an enormous, unstoppable amount of pain. Their thoughts and feelings went through her as well, making her wish that she wasn't immortal.

Thelmos didn't have many thoughts, but when she heard them, they did state what she feared that they would think. Why did Mahnu want to help the humans? What are we doing wrong?

But then, Eliza would bombard her with many questions, both inside her head and out...

How could you? To us!? With those puny humans! Break her for every God she betrayed! Break her for every human she saved! Make her hate the humans, that's right Mahnu, if you want to blame someone for the pain that you feel right now, it's the human's fault!