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Chapter 13: Calm in the Storm

Grass green surrounded her for a brief moment. Then a desert of purple and gold.
She looked up to see who had grabbed her hand. Leon Oskaur's face happily greeted her. His hair was a light brown. She looked over to the group. They were all beginning to walk further into the desert. Senkina followed them. She knew when to lead and when to follow.
Jache was the leader. He was obviously the most experienced of the group. Senkina leaned toward Leon Oskaur.
"Who is actually the oldest earth person?" Senkina whispered to him.
Leon Oskaur looked down at her. "It is a boy by the name of Firtte." Leon Oskaur explained, "He looks like he is 13. He is considered the weakest of us because he's been here so long that he is basically a native."
"I was just curious, because he seems to know where he is going." Senkina responded, pointing to Jache.
"Well," Leon Oskaur sighed, "he is one of the older ones."
"Makes sense. How much of the planet have you seen?" Senkina asked, interested on the mysterious Leon Oskaur.
"Just as much as you have seen." Leon Oskaur answered, "Lyllan was very protective of all of us by the time that I came."
"Oh." That was all Senkina could say. She didn't realized how trapped they were here.
They continued to walk until Jache stopped. He turned to the group.
"All you have to do to enter is prove you are a earth person." Jache explained.
Senkina was kinda nervous, but she tried to let her not look phased. Leon Oskaur looked like he couldn't decide which to focus on. Senkina looked forward to see that everyone demonstrate their power, then disappear.
When they made it to the invisible field, Leon Oskaur motioned for her to go first. She looked at the field and asked some to say something in another language. Someone shouted something.
The words clicked in Senkina like pieces to a puzzle.
"You said 'she's crazy'" Senkina translated. She slowly stepped forward to find that the group was there.
She turned to see Leon Oskaur. He must have decided anger was his strongest emotion, because anger filled his face and cause his hands and hair to combust into fire.
The wall allowed him in and he cooled down. Senkina's turned back to the group. They were all relieved and tired, even though they were asleep not too long ago.
They began to walk through the village. The villagers all went to greet the newcomers. Most hugged in greeting. All were teenagers.
"Where are we?" Senkina asked Leon Oskaur.
"This is the earth people's sanctuary. Lyllan had been making this for hundreds of years. She must have finished." Leon Oskaur explained.
He walked through the crowd. Greeting many different people like they were old friends. Senkina wasn't sure what to do. She just decided to explore the village.
She found that a hut was big enough for four people and there were about twenty to thirty huts. She walked further down and found a washing area for the girls and one on the other side for the boys. There were walls around both and Senkina couldn't go in the boys. She was glad there were spells against that.
She went back to the reunion. To see that Leon Oskaur was addressing the whole crowd. 
"...is the reason that we are all together. So I want to have a feast in her honor," Leon Oskaur proclaimed to the crowd, "but I also want to do it another girl that you were not aware even existed. This girl also helped save the group that was captured and was willing to get caught to save everyone else. So I say we do a feast in Lyllan's and Senkina's honor."
Senkina felt her cheeks blush in embarrassment. She heard someone yell in a loud thick British accent,
"I want to meet this girl."
The crowd roared in agreement. Leon Oskaur gestured at Senkina. She understood the gesture and walked up next to Leon Oskaur. The crowd cheered for her all the way. Some tried to shake her hand like a fan to a celebrity. Others bowed to her. When she stood next to Leon Oskaur they all fell silent. Leon Oskaur took her hand and held it up like a winner of a boxing match.
"I want to officially introduce you to Senkina. The unofficial savior of the earth people." Leon Oskaur shouted.
The crowd went wild. They all swarmed Senkina. They all wanted to meet the person that escaped a unit on her own and created the escape plan.
Senkina felt very flattered by all the attention she was getting. This flattery was overwhelming feeling that something was wrong. Senkina couldn't quite place it.
She tried to ignore the feeling. She thought that her anxiety was just working on overdrive because of the escape from Our Leader's castle.
She went on to the feast in her honor. The food was the green meat she had been eating, some weirdly colored fruits and vegetables, and a blue juice of some sort. Senkina ate happily. Stuffing herself on the brown fruits and blue vegetables.
The nagging feeling would not go away no matter how much she pushed it away or drank to forget. It would not go away. She turned to Leon Oskaur who was happy as a clam, his hair a bright pink.
"How many earth people are there supposed to be?" Senkina asked over the crowd of chitchat.
"There is one hundred of us. Well including you one hundred and one." Leon Oskaur explained.
Senkina looked out to the crowd trying to figure out how many people were there.
She started to count, but with everyone moving around, Senkina kept losing count. She then looked at faces.
She saw Harta talking to a few boys. Then, Senkina saw Jache talking to a group of five boys and two girls, two of the boys she recognized. There was the boy with the scars and Tante.
The nagging feeling made her keep searching. Then it dawned on her. She turned to Leon Oskaur.
Panic filled her voice as she shouted, "Where's Jickallyn?"