The Wood Between Worlds

Chapter זעקס

          I groggily open my eyes, and look around. Or at least TRY and look around. I can't move my head at all. I can't move ANYTHING at all. I frantically look around, trying to find my friends. "Frayah! Fredryk! Es-" a hand clamps over my mouth as someone yells something in a strange language. Suddenly, everything is a buzz, I get hoisted up over someone's shoulder and brought to a dark room. I know better than to talk this time, so I just sit there in silence counting the seconds for about an hour. FINALLY, the door opens, flooding me with light and almost blinds me, someone walks in and looks at me for a while, before finally starting to speak. 

"what are you doing here?" He says to me.

"ask you're people, they brought me here." I retort.

"They only brought you here because you trespassed. how did you get here. To Zakassa. you aren't from here."

"Well obviously." I said, I didn't look that different from them all, but everyone here was more beautiful, more unique, just like the place. 

"how did you get here then?" he asks me.

"you wouldn't believe me if I told you."

"we will see. you can start with your name please."

"I'm Maggie Tillings, and well, I came here using these." i hold out the rings, careful not to touch them with my bare skin.

"These???" he says, snatching them from me.

"NO WAIT! YOU CAN'T-" but it's too late, he is already gone. It takes a few moments for the reality to sink in. If he can't figure out how to get back, or decides not to, I will be stuck here. Forever. I start hyperventilating. Someone comes rushing in and screams when they see that my interrogator has disappeared. I try to protest and explain what happened, but no one listens to me. They bring over one of their darts and prick me. "Not again," I think before I black out.

Someone starts shaking, me and I wake up. I almost start crying, it's my interrogator! I'm Saved! Or not... he doesn't look very happy with me. 

"Maggie, what exactly were you trying to do to me." He says.

"I WAS SHOWING YOU HOW I GOT HERE! I DIDN'T THINK YOU WOULD TOUCH THEM!" I yell at him, extremely annoyed.

"Do you know how unbelievable this sounds, it almost seems as if you DIDN'T know that i was the keeper of the tower."

"The w-what?" I say, shocked.

"People have been after this for centuries, ever since we sent out the call. I must say, no one has started off this cleverly yet. Unfortunately for you, I made those rings."

I gasped, "What..."

"You amuse me Maggie, I think I will be sorry to watch you and your friends die. but unfortunately, there is no preventing that. All of the others are by far more equipped than you. You simply don't stand a chance out there. Goodbye Miss Maggie Tillings."

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(זעקס is yiddish for 6)