Not Your Kind of Fairytale (English)

Part 14- Untamable spirit

I woke up to the sound of distant murmur. Although far away, I could hear it as if it was right behind me. Someone was coming, and I was not safe in here anymore.

I stood up and got out of my hiding place. As soon as I did that, pain embraced my entire body.  My wound had not fully recovered. It was not a matter of how it looked on the outside. The wound was more internal than external. It had been bothering me ever since I got it, but not as much as then. Shila's father told me that it was going to take time for it to fully recover, and that I was lucky it had not reached the brain. Nonetheless, it was so close to the brain that it could stop me from moving properly.

For that reason, as soon as I started to move, my right side could not move in an adequate way. The left hemisphere of the brain is in charge of the actions of the right side of your body. I had no painkillers and no medicine, so I had to keep moving. At a slower pace than normal, with my vision becoming a little blurry, and not being able to focus, I grabbed my bag and tried to think of something.

Making plans while being in pain and knowing that somebody is going to find out that you are there is nowhere near easy. That is why I could not come up with any good plan or strategy. But I remembered something. It took me some time, but I realised that I had the Noctanoc dust. I had gathered enough to fulfill both parts of the plan I was tracing in my mind. The only problem was that I had no idea of which combination made Noctanoc dust have healing qualities, and I was not going to stop and try to figure it out.

So I decided to carry out the other part of the plan: start planning my attack. I had not killed anyone yet. Only a few birds when we were short of food. I was determined to protect myself, but I did not know who or what was entering the cave. Plus, I was not in the best of the circumstances. It was not friendly, basically because nothing is friendly in Trepomo nowadays. They were probably some goblins, hoping to extract the precious rocks from the cave.

I decided to take advantage of the cave. I had had enough time to explore the caves, and he/ they did not. If he/they did, he/they would have come earlier. Why? because expert thieves never leave their money and precious jewels without protection.

There were some things that could not be seen unless you really payed attention to all of the details. My hiding place was one of them. But most importantly, the secret. The secret hidden in the cave. I calculated that it would take them 30 minutes to get to where I was. The cave was quite big. And if they chose the left path I would remain unnoticed. But I was not going to leave everything to chance.

I started to think on what I had found yesterday. Even though I could not think properly, the findings that I had made yesterday came to me in small flashes. The riddle and the clue. The clue had to be on the right side. I started looking everywhere, and no matter where I looked, all I could see where shiny rocks that made it hard for me to stay focused. Then I started to compare the left path with the right path. The right path was quite longer than the left one, which got me to think that the left path did not end where I thought it ended. But that could not be it. It had to end there, because you could clearly see how time had had an effect on the walls of the cave. The cave had eroded due to the air, and that indicated that it had been like that for quite a long time.

I started to get nervous because I could not figure out what I was supposed to find. It was longer, and full of precious rocks. I kept thinking, and even though more differences added up to the list, I was running out of time, and in the end, I only saw three clear differences: there were far more precious rocks, it was a lot longer, and it was not properly leveled. That was the most important one, in my opinion. It got me to think that what the riddle meant was that the floor not being leveled was like a clue. You could not find places like my "hiding spot" on the other side of the cave. That was the strange thing. How could all of the cave be worn out because of the erosion, but suddenly the floor on the end of the cave be smooth and even?