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Anastasia	Yesterday, 9:37 PM
Posts: 84 Group: BattleWriters Member #6 Joined: Apr 24, 2011	(OOC: Continued from Chapter 3 and still rough-ish.) Chapter 4: A Welcoming Hand Eknara sniffled and wiped away at her wet face. “Okay. I can’t,” she paused and looked at her unclothed body. “Can’t stay here like this. We need to find clothes, Aicatul. And then see if we could...” her thoughts started trailing. She hadn’t memorized the spells from the scroll. She had understood how they worked and could possibly reconstruct them that way, but she really doubted that she’d actually be able to. “... if we could construct another portal to get back after we gather some materials.” She got up and began to walk in a random direction. Some hours after walking into a forest, she was able to construct a makeshift set of clothing from some leaves and a few samples of tree bark. She had yet to meet any sentient beings; just some animals here and there. Luckily, none had yet tried to attack her. But just to be careful, Aicatul was flying overhead and keeping a lookout for any approaching dangers. Aicatul suddenly started quickly flying back to Eknara before she heard a loud cheer from what sounded like a male voice. Her daemon landed on her shoulder and spoke quietly into her ear. “I saw what looked like two human males. They’re dressed kinda strangely, but more disturbingly, I didn’t notice any daemons attached to them.” The thought terrified Eknara. In Aerillia, only ghouls or zombies had no daemons attached to them. “They looked perfectly normal though,” Aicatul added. “Not like any ghouls or zombies.” “Maybe,” she trailed off. “Maybe this world is different like that?” “Perhaps,” Aicatul answered. “Their daemons may be hidden within them somehow.” “That’s a lonely prospect,” Eknara wondered. She certainly wouldn’t wish to go through life without her Aicatul. Not for a second. Another, and closer cheer reached their ears. Eknara certainly didn’t want to meet any strange men, even if they seemed to act normal. She quickly started walking away from the voice. She took a few steps before a man jumped literally jumped out of a bush to her right. Startled, she jumped back. “Woah,” he said. “Why hello there.” He smiled, but his smile didn’t manage to put Eknara anymore at ease. He looked to be probably a few years older than Eknara, but light-skinned and with short curly auburn hair. Eknara shook a little before quickly turning around to start running in the other direction. “Hey, wait up!” Eknara had no intention of doing anything of the sort. Her heart beat wildly as she continued running. “Why can I understand him, Aicatul? I actually understood everything he said.” Having no answers for her, Aicatul remained quiet as he remained perched on her shoulder. Eknara noticed that the man was running right beside her before he overtook her to block her path. “Slow down,” he said raising up his hands. “I’m not gonna hurt you.” Eknara turned around to run in the other direction, only to the see the same man just a few steps in front of her. She turned back around. The same man was still in front of her. She was now starting to feel a little faint. “And neither will my brother,” he added. Eknara took a few steps to her left and confirmed that there indeed were two men that looked exactly alike and were even wearing nearly the same clothing standing by her left and right. “Let me guess,” the man to her left said. “You’re new here? As in you just walked into this world?” Eknara tried to take a few steps backwards, but a tree trunk was in her way. She whimpered as her hands tried desperately to dig into the bark. “She seems to be easily scared and of the fidgety sort,” the man to her right said. He turned now to talk to her. “I assure you, miss. My twin brother and I will not hurt you. As for having just entered this world we have an idea of what you may be going through, for my brother and I went through the exact same thing. Like you, we are not originally from here.” Eknara dug her nails even harder into the tree behind her. “How do I...” she started quietly. “How do I get back? To my world?” The man to her right looked stoically at his brother. The man to his left had a sorry look on his face as his hand reached to the back of his head. “Umm... this is kind of a world that people end up in by mistake somehow. And as far as we know, no one has been able to leave it. I’m really sorry to have to tell you this, but please stay calm. I know this can be sort of a shock, especially at first, but we’ll help you. You’ve landed in Khaotics territory, and just like the Khaotics that took my brother and I in, we’ll welcome you with open arms. We’re like a family, you see. We’ll make sure you’ll have a very nice an happy home.’” “Perhaps it may be best not to try to be too familiar with her,” the man to Eknara’s right chimed in. “Oh, come on, Malek. She’s clearly scared. We need to prove to her that she’s safe.” “Agreed, but I do not believe you’re taking the best approach. Then again, you do have a longer record with women than I do,” Malek said. “Hey!” The yet unnamed twin was clearly offended by something that his brother said. He turned to Eknara and gave her a warm smile. “Ignore him. My name’s Ethan. There are a lot of scary animals around here,” he reached out his hand to her. “We’ll take you back to headquarters and get you some nice food and clothing and get you all settled in. Okay?” Ethan waited for Eknara to accept his hand. She looked turned down to look at it then looked back up at his face. “I will find a way,” she said quietly. “What’s that? Sorry, I didn’t catch what you said.” Ethan asked. “I said I will find a way back home,” she spoke a little louder this time and gritted her teeth. Ethan gave her a pitiful look. “We won’t stop you from trying. But first, let’s get you some food and some decent clothing.” He pointed to Aicatul. “That bird on your shoulder, did it cross over with you?” Eknara said nothing as she brought Aicatul to her chest and hugged him. Aicatul turned his head around to eye Ethan before a high-pitched cry escaped his throat. Ethan got the messaged and jumped back. Eknara thought over what the men told her. ‘Some food and decent clothing would be nice..’ she thought. ‘Just for now. Until I can gather everything I’d need to go back.’ Eknara nodded. “Okay.” “Ah. Follow us then. Ethan and I have to pick up the spoils from our hunt first, mind you, but we’ll make sure to take the shortest safest route to headquarters after. We will guarantee your safety from here on out.” Eknara nodded again and followed behind Malek. Ethan followed closely to her side. It took a considerable amount of courage on her part to speak up to Ethan and ask, “what is ‘Khaotics’?” He beamed and did his best to explain everything to Eknara.


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