Beyond The Realms

Chapter 6

I don't have any experience getting kidnapped, but according to movies, the captor  tosses you into the back seat of some shady-looking car with dark tainted windows and drives off to some creepy location.

But this guy walks.

At least that's what he does for a while as hanging upside down from his shoulder suddenly I'm not seeing the tall lockers of the boys changing room anymore but trees,lots and lots of them. Their size is so huge the barks are like unshakable pillars that seem to stretch into sky and  form a dense canopy of green overhead. I can only see patches of the blue sky from between the gaps. "Are we ...in a forest ?" I ask bewildered.

" I suppose you can see for yourself  " Comes a clipped reply in his deep voice.

"  How did we get here? I swear we were in the locker room just now and then---"

Putting me back on my feet my captor  says a single word that blows away what few  functioning cells in my brain were clinging to sanity " Teleportation "

" What do you mean ?" " How is this possible ?" " Are you crazy ?" I touch a hand to my forehead  " Wait! Am I crazy ?" I squeeze my eyes shut and count from one to ten hoping this strange forest will vanish when I open them again.

 No luck, the forest is very much present   " Am I still hallucinating ?"

He doesn't once answer me, forget him trying to calm me down or help me out of my freak out session. Instead, he begins moving deeper into the forest.

His pace is steady with silent power and natural grace despite the uneven ground full of tangled roots and bushes that look like something I would effortlessly trip over even in my gym shoes.

" Follow me if you value your life" He doesn't even look over his shoulder to make sure I'm doing as I've been told. He seems like a person who is used to giving orders and having them followed without any questions. 

I stand  glaring at his broad back that is covered in a rich purple cape which despite the dirt-covered forest floor is spotless and think about making an escape while he is ahead and not looking at me.

But where will I run?
I'm in the middle of a freaking forest.

The soil beneath my feet seems real so do the trees around me and the  growls of animals and chittering of insects  that I haven't seen any signs of yet , since I'm  motivated to keep it that way I follow my steadily moving captor ." Look,  I figured out you are not a fan of talking but can you at least tell me where we are ?"

" The Djinn realm "

"The what realm ?"

His face is  inscrutable  as he keeps his eyes ahead " Djinn, the race your father belonged to"

Rather than making things easy for me, his answer had made me even more confused.

I don't know much about my father but this is a huge shocker.
If there is ever a machine made to measure the size of shock I'm sure this one will be no lesser than a freaking Dinosaur!

" You mean my father isn't a human? "

" Wasn't " He replies " He isn't alive anymore"

Despite myself, I feel something in my chest  clench  " He is dead ?"

" Murdered " He replies his eyes flicker to my face for a second before they are back in the forest.

Too stunned with shock I can't bring myself to even ask him more about it.