Initium novum [Completed - being edited/rewritten]

Chapter 12

I was sitting by Valeria's bed, watching is she wasn't about to throw up. Fortunately, she was not. She was just sleeping, very deeply but I was still watching her, just is the case.

When after a couple of hours of watching her, I decided to go to get some water for Valeria.

When I returned, she was already awaked and standing by the window, looking outside.

She saw noticed that I came and with a smile of her face said:

"Hey, I must have had a lot of ale, haven't I?"

"Yeah, you had a lot of it, and it wasn't only ale, to be honest. How are you feeling now?"

"Well, my head hurts like hell, I can barely stand on my feet and I remember only pieces of what happened some hours ago but otherwise I am totally okay." She answered.

"Very well, funny girl, I brought you something to eat and drink. Here, take it."

"Isn't it more alcohol, right?"

"No, don't worry. It is just water and some bread with ham. I swear."

I gave her bread and water, we sat on a bed and started toSS talk. Valeria was asking if she hadn't done anything stupid, or something like that and then she was asking how she even got into a bed in such state. I was telling her everything that happened and when I finished with it we were laughing at how great time we had.

Valeria was looking out of a window and had a very focused-like look. I came to her and said,

"What are you thinking about, honey?"

"Come to me, do you see that, outside?" She said.

"Yes, I see green lands and fields with crops."

„And more, what more do you see?"

"I don't know, for me, there is nothing more to see at least nothing what I would want to think about." I answered.

I knew what she wanted me to say, she wanted me to say that I am aware of those hundreds, even thousands of slaves on fields like this one. I was and I am aware of them but is much better for me not to think about them. For her it was difficult, she couldn't to think of them.

"Yes Valeria, I know what is your point and I know what you want me to say. I am aware of them and I swear that I see their situation as you do."

My answer satisfied her enough, so she went from the window, took a book of Story of Odyssey and started to read it from the beginning again.

I was just sitting there, watching her.

She wasn't reading the book for much longer, because the train started to slow down ten minutes after she took the book.

We both looked outside and saw a great concrete wall in front of us, we were at the first continental checkpoint.

The train slowly entered a great tunnel in the wall and then stopped. The scanning process started.

The scanning process took a couple of minutes, we were very nervous because we didn't know, what would they do, if they would find anything dangerous onboard.

Fortunately, they didn't find anything, at least we thought so.

The scanning ended and soldiers entered wagons, I ran to the door and looked out, There was a group of five soldiers, one of them was much older then the others and by insignias on the uniform, he was sergeant of the unit. He was very big, I would say 5.9 feet tall, his body was cover with muscles, I could see that from under the uniform, on his head he had sergeant cap and under it a shaved hair, his face there was strong little bit whiter beard. He was a military type of person with everything included.