《The pink wizard》 Prologue 1 After the explosion, caused by the violent reaction of the malachite Ophelia was on the ground, completely surrendered, she felt a burning all over her face, tingling all over her body and her hands were so bad that she did not feel the multiple cuts caused by the remains of the containers, in such a bad condition, her eyesight was not very good because she had been wearing glasses for as long as she can remember, but with the lamp equally broken (due to the explosion), it was completely dark in the test basement. When suddenly the communicator in her pocket began to glow, indicating that Caspian and the Captain were about to arrive at the laboratory, Ophelia suddenly stopped ignoring her discomfort, staggering and still groping the stairs and climbed the steps with strides so large that she climbed the steps two by two, one on the surface Ophelia closed the basement door with a scourge so strong that all the jars on the tables and counters vibrated with the rumble and continued to vibrate even after Ophelia finished changing and cleaning her wounds. Ophelia quickly took a look at all the windows, doors and loopholes, to make sure they were well sealed with the solid foam, since the experiment they were about to do required the greatest of secrecy. Even so, Ophelia had not yet finished preparing things for the return of her companions, so she ran to the central table and from the drawers under the table, she got out flasks, beakers, silk scrolls, linen and wool, magic ink and many empty bottles, from the upper shelves she took many bottles with substances, brown, gray, translucent, black, green and blue that she was sure they would use in a late phase of the experiments. When suddenly she hear a scream in the distance. Ophelia ran until the large arch doors, as soon as Ophelia opened the left door, she had to leave all her weight to be able to drag a single door, since the thick metal of the entrance did not let the hinges do the heavy work, then she had to repeat the process alone because her companion Caspian and Captain Lucian could not help her, because they had the package in their hands and could not release it, once the two doors Caspian and Lucia opened they entered with a heavy and firm step, since both measure almost the same, the package remained as straight as possible and during the wagon''s journey to the laboratory. While Lucia and Caspian slowly lowered the package, at the speed of a turtle, they bent down, then got on their knees and finally hunched their backs until they felt that the base of the package touched the tile, and at that moment everyone could relax for a while since Ophelia at the same time as Caspian and Lucia released the package and threw themselves on the floor, she had finished closing the doors, and everyone on the floor. "Caspian... go down to the basement... and... bring me... the goat''s foot please," said Lucian choppy "Please... wait a moment... as I recover... captain..." Caspian said as slowly as Luc¨ªan "Captain, it would not be better to rest a moment before starting the experiments, I do not think it is safe to experiment with whatever is in the box in our current state," Ophelia said with a slightly agitated breath and on the ground still "Nonsense, we will rest until we have isolated the specimens in the jars and with the corresponding materials to start the experiment, and don''t worry, those things can''t do anything as long as we don''t remove the main packaging," Lu¨ªan said as he stood up At that moment Caspian also stood up and almost instinctively, before going down to the basement through the tool he went to the employee room, whose entrance is located at the back of the laboratory, with arch doors in the middle of some Doric columns, on the other side was his robe and uniform that he uses to investigate, which are always clean due to his constant diligence with hygiene in the laboratory, and this would not be the exception, he entered and dried all the sweat as well as removed his overalls and changed it for his uniform, and then he left the room and went to the basement. At the same time Captain Lucian followed Caspian in his steps and also went to the employee room and cleaned himself as best he could, before putting on his pajama-like uniform, but with a thicker cloth and the robe on top, as he left the employee room, Captain Lucian went through the entire laboratory with such a leisurely pace that Ophelia had time to fully recover from all the physical exertion she had made before and during her arrival, since he finished inspecting the tables, counters and windows on the left side of the laboratory, the captain touched every glass, flask, jar, tap of water, gas, or surface that was on the table, as well as carefully observing the cracks of each window, now filled with solid foam in search of any cracks or imperfections, all the while walking so slow, so slow, that as soon as he arrived at the basement door and at that moment Caspian abruptly interrupted him with his return.Stolen from Royal Road, this story should be reported if encountered on Amazon. OPHELIA: "... Were you experimenting in the basement while we were traveling to pick up the package? ¨C said Caspian annoyed "yes it was my fault, I was trying to extract magic from the Malachite, but the spell of contamination with an excess of magic ink without me noticing, coupled with that, the silk parchment enhanced the reaction which caused a small explosion that destroyed the focus and sent me flying," Ophelia said, as she raised her hands to show the bandages on her hands. "Next time replace the lantern before we get there or if you don''t let me know before entering the basement I had to fumble for the goat''s foot in the dark, plus my shoes were damaged by the glass on the floor," Caspian said as he lowered his tone. "Okay, I promise that next time I will be more cautious with those things," Ophelia said as she bowed her head in gratitude. "Calm down both of you, it''s fine as long as Ophelia replaces the lantern, we are also magicians in charge of experimenting, making mistakes is part of the job," the captain said with a smile on his lips. ¡°Promise Ophelia won''t happen again,¡± Caspian said. "I promise, this will not happen again, it was an oversight of mine, due to fatigue, I have been working for about 40 hours in a row, all due to this urgent government order," Ophelia said, raising her voice more and more. "We all have days here without returning home or seeing our families, but I promise you that as soon as all this is over the reward will be juicy for the three of us, I understand how you both feel, seriously!" but this is important, so please try a little harder, "the captain said, lying towards an sign to be followed". Caspian and Ophelia followed Lucia through the entire laboratory, until they reached the entrance (where the box was) and putting Caspian and Lucia one on each side, supported by Ophelia who was behind the box all together pushed her through the hallway to the testing area, just like a turtle at birth that comes out of the sand and runs to the sea trying to avoid the danger of being hunted before reaching the sea, Ophelia felt the same, due to all the secrecy of this matter added to the fact that she did not know what was in the box made her feel the same nerves, as if at any moment a large bird could pass and snatch her life. Once they arrived at the test area, Ophelia released the box and Caspian and Lucia reloaded the box and took it to the center of the esplanade where the sun was streaming into the building, mainly due to the reinforced glass dome that was used as a roof, the rays of light bounced against the pastel brown of the wood, only the box in the middle of the esplanade was very noticeably opposed to the ash gray of the floor and the walls of the laboratory. Everyone wiped their sweat for the last time and cleaned themselves well before starting work, when suddenly the captain remembered that he had to tell his superiors when they would start with the experiments in addition to giving them a travel log, so he postponed the start of the project until all the paperwork was ready. "Hey Caspian and how''s your research going?" "Didn''t you have to pause her because of all this?" - "Ophelia said while looking at the Captain''s office" "Well, I guess this is like a break, since I don''t know what''s in the box so I can relax a little more, not knowing the importance of the project" ¨C "Caspian replied with some disinterest" "Seriously!" "Aren''t you nervous to know what nerves to know what''s in the box, what if it''s something dangerous?" " I do not think it is something really dangerous, if it were, they would have sent it to a laboratory more capable in this type of matter" ¨C "Caspian replied with the same disinterest" ''But this is a government commission, you know that for them there is not much difference between this type of thing'' ¨C ''answered Ophelia nervous'' "No, but when we got to the island on the other side of the storm haze, there were already many experts on the island advising all the politicians there, so you can trust the experts," Caspian said with a small smile. "True, although since magic allowed us to reinforce our boats and boats enough to pass the stormy mist without destroying them, we magicians have been full of work, since all the new discoveries that are made like this are entrusted to us, did they give you a new plant to investigate it?" " Ophelia said tiredly " "If that was the investigation that I had to pause for this that they say is more urgent, even classified, but you know that I don''t care what the government says, I will only investigate what they gave me and that''s it." At the end of his sentence Caspian advanced with an accelerated step and entered Captain Lucian''s office Ophelia saw him incredulous, since the captain used to always have a good temper, but when it came to work and especially serious things, he was not very willing to joke, and to be interrupted like that was a serious lack of respect. Ophelia approached and stuck her ear to the door to hear their conversation, but I only heard whispers and footsteps, sometimes louder and sometimes weaker, and suddenly there was silence the laboratory seemed dead because the voices on the other side of the door stopped being heard for a moment, followed by a pause of all that indiscreet action in the office, when suddenly I heard footsteps getting closer and closer to it, and Ophelia hurried to return to her place before Caspian entered Lucian''s office. "Ophelia hand me a drawer knife of the tools, and also the goat''s foot," Caspian said in an annoyed tone. "Okay, but what do you want them for?" Ophelia said as she went and picked up the tools "I talked to the captain, he didn''t take kindly to me interrupting him, but I didn''t take kindly to him interrupting my investigation either, so I talked to him," Caspian said with a tone of satisfaction. "And what did he say?" "He gave us permission to start without him, let''s start unpacking," Caspian said with a smile that crossed his face. Prologue 2 Ophelia and Caspian were in front of the large box, observing the yellow and orange seals with black letters on the edges of the box that warned about the danger of its contents, as well as its misuse, "Careful, biological material", "Toxic to human beings", they were both tense, because their posture was rigid and they had been immobile, only standing, in front of the box for a while, like children who witness magic for the first time with the same astonishment on their faces and a touch of disbelief and a half was what could be noticed, until Caspian stepped forward and began to cut the seals that he thought would make it difficult to unpack the box, Ophelia, seeing the action of her partner, followed his actions and after a while they finished cutting all the seals in half. Ophelia moved away and Caspian took the goat''s foot and with a small push back, he jammed the goat''s foot at the junction of the front boards and the upper boards of the box, but when Caspian made the lever movement, the board out, it creaked, resisted with all its strength to separate, the wood split in half and thanks to that the fact that there was a large block of solid foam as a solid armor that protected the main packaging was exhibited. The piece of wood, nailed to the foam, ensured military-grade packaging or even greater, since it was a block as heavy as cement, which explained its difficulty in moving it. Caspian, confused by the unusual packaging that had been found, remained motionless for a moment, but then he continued with his task without hesitation, the boards squealed and twisted, begging not to be separated from the foam, but Caspian continued and continued ignoring all the moans with a steel soul until he could no longer and his arms gave up due to fatigue, and Ophelia who until now only limited to cleaning the debris, gave him the relay in the unpacking of the box, took the goat''s foot and started with the task, but his short stature, coupled with his little strength and physical dexterity made him gradually begin to give in and be in the same situation as Caspian with just removing three wooden planks from the foam. '' Hey...'' ''Caspian... you¡äre sure it''s nothing dangerous... the packaging is more difficult to remove... than we thought, we should have waited for the captain'' she gasped. "The package is fragile and apparently of extreme importance to the government, seeing as its packaging the package must be very small the solid foam walls look very thick so we''re fine for now," he said a little less panting. "And if it''s not dangerous, why don''t they tell us what''s in the box? Why does the government want to keep all this secret?" "Don''t be impatient, we are already unpacking the package, we will find out in a few hours and we will ask the captain for explanations" "What if he doesn''t want to give it to us?" he said in a worried tone ''Then he will have to work with others and we will return to our old investigations, calm...'' ''While I was on the island I heard that its effect on humans is terrifying by some soldiers, but they never said anything about it being deadly, this must be special, either because of its properties or its wealth in magic, the government is so interested that they spent on us, to investigate this box thoroughly.'' "You think Caspian is like that." "If not, I don''t understand why?" ''were to send him to a magical laboratory.'' "Okay, guys, I''ll finish the break," the captain said with a cheerful tone. The captain had left his office with a smile and his renewed energy, he went with Caspian and Ophelia, he took the goat''s foot and with an enormous force he moved his arms back, and snatched against the remaining planks and in less than five minutes he tore off all the faces that were left with wooden planks, it was so fast that the squeaks were barely perceptible, the planks did not have time to react, to complain about the movement, compared to Caspian that his movements were slow and the squeaks of the high and slow planks that sometimes hurt the ear, once the work was done, the captain released the goat''s leg and went to sit on the nearest bench on the laboratory tables while Caspian and Ophelia collected and arranged the remains of the shattered wood. Once they finished cleaning the esplanade of the laboratory, the captain got up from his seat and went to the basement, down and the noise of the footsteps on the pieces of glass was heard and how he threw whole boxes by groping around the basement, until there was a small silence, all the noise was repeated again until the captain left the basement with a pickaxe in his hands, walked and stood in front of the block of solid foam and with several firm thrusts managed to tear a piece of foam from the block that looked like concrete, but due to the force of the impact the block moved and had to relocate in the center, the process was repeated again but with Ophelia and Caspian holding the block, but still the block continued to move, and so they were until dawn arrived and prevented them from continuing to bite and tear the large block. "Captain, I just crossed the block with a needle and I could notice that there are still 50 centimeters thick before reaching the third packaging layer, I propose that Ophelia use one of her spells to make an acid that can pass through the foam." "That sounds good, the truth is after stinging for hours my arms don''t give anymore, let Ophelia know about her new task as soon as she gets out of the bathroom."Taken from Royal Road, this narrative should be reported if found on Amazon. "Understood, Captain." Caspian walked to the other side of the lab and knocked on the bathroom door. "Ophelia, as soon as you finish, the captain says to prepare a spell to generate acid, that way we will advance faster with unpacking." "Okay, but couldn''t you wait for her to come out to tell me?" "I want to finish this as soon as possible." ''Okay as soon as I get out I prepare everything for the spell.'' "Well, I''ll clean up all the debris and dust made by the foam in the laboratory." Ophelia went out and put the linen parchment on the table, her pastel brown tone so contrary to the cold gray, and gloomy of the table and the involuntary tremor in her movements, it denoted the little experience she had with this tool, unlike the inkwell, almost empty, the pen with the worn tip, it betrayed that the practical part was not her strong, given that she spent a lot of ink, Ophelia felt very nervous, the last experiment had gone very wrong, but this time she was more confident since Caspian supervised everything, despite not being able to help her Caspian is a diligent man who knows all the magical processes and theories, so at first there should be no problems. Ophelia in front of the burnt adobe bottom, on the unevenness of the field and with the white light lamp in the corner of the table, Ophelia trembling with nerves due to the risk was her first time so nervous, usually she is very carefree and although the practices are bad for her she always ends up doing everything over and over again until she gets it, but this time it was not like that, her hands trembled, her feet felt weak, the sweat on her forehead, her clumsiness when moving added to her very poor pulse, plus the importance of the task made her overthink, she did not have a second chance, the package is unique in its class, if she spoils it she ruined her career, being a recent graduate and at 24 years old, her clumsiness could not beat her, her throat dried up and she felt a great terror, she did not want to make the acid. Ophelia took a deep breath, with subtle strokes, but firm she began to draw the pentagram and symbols necessary to start the extraction ritual, she moved her hand to the right, upwards, diagonally in a straight line everything with a continuous speed and without removing her hand from the parchment she made the drawing in a single stroke, but the drawing went wrong, Ophelia has always been bad at this and it did not help her pulse, the lines always come out crooked, that always harms the process, and that is why accidents occur in the laboratory and the result is never as expected. " Make it again, we can''t start the extraction process with a stuff like that," Caspian said as he looked at the symbol ''I know!'' you think I don''t know what we would ruin everything if we used the pentagram like that. Ophelia thought with a certain exasperation. Ophelia since childhood has always been bad at crafts and that cost her a lot while she was in school, she did not get along with the teachers in the laboratory and always ended up cleaning as punishment for her clumsiness, practices were what she hates most, she tried hard to improve and get her subjects through (with the minimum passing grade), that was her most important achievement in school, after finishing her career as a witch, her confidence and self-esteem were so high that she felt that if her self-esteem were a ladder she could reach the confines of heaven and space. But when she graduated and got her job in the workshop, she felt like she was about to lose her job multiple times because she could not keep up with Caspian or Captain Lucia, despite everything she had tried, it was still not enough, the competition was very strong and many times the laboratory supervisor wanted to replace her with someone who in his eyes was more capable, but the captain never left him, Ophelia knows that if she fails now she could be thrown out without problems, and this situation made her feel as powerless as if she were in school again. ''It will take me a long time to get the drawing right, do you have the other material ready?'' Ophelia said slowly. "Clean the parchment and try it until it comes out, I''ll put things in order inside the laboratory and prepare some food, keep trying" Caspian said as he walked away. Ophelia spent the whole night awake, making and remaking the pentagram and the surrounding ideograms, but due to the fatigue of the hours of work followed, coupled with her clumsiness, they made the task of drawing the ideograms more complex than necessary, and when she felt that the drawing was well done, she left her pencil and with heavy steps, her back hunched and her gaze lost on the way back to the house by the light of dawn. After a short but well-deserved rest everyone was still tired, Caspian had prepared everything, and the Captain did all the paperwork and spoke to the laboratory supervisor who had not been able to be in the laboratory yet, due to all the matters related to this experiment and the government. Despite the commitment and energy shown a moment ago, the pace of work made them all taciturn in a matter of days, even Captain Lu¨ªan who was popular for his always jovial attitude towards others, was serious, he was very emaciated by the lack of sleep and continuous work, which would end up affecting them all in the end, since when a person who has more than 48 hours without sleep, with intermittent small breaks, the brain begins to forget memories that happened within that period of time, the body experiences fatigue and pain everywhere in addition to the brain suffering from a loss of attention span, and movements are further hindered. The accident happened as soon as the acid stopped sprouting directly from the parchment and Caspian and Ophelia threw the water, because they reacted very late to both fatigued and as soon as they threw the water, the acid had already pierced the foam, and the metal mesh the third and last packaging was in the process of undoing the thick glass box that protected the thing that was inside, the captain realizing what happened pale of the face ordered them vehemently to stop, but it was too late, submerged in water up to the ankles, the worms had escaped through the cracks made by the acid, which caused the water worms pushed by the jet of water to fall to the ground and escape through the drain, making the drainage. Prologue Final The captain ran to cover the sinks with a foam spell, after he made sure that the four sinks were covered and there were no leaks, on the way back to the concourse and stopped at the side of the box, a moment to think, he felt panic, he put his hands to his head, clenched his fists, clenched his teeth and with a choking scream with his elbow, as if sneezing, he knelt for a moment, while kneeling he seemed to think of many things, I do not stop mumbling all the time, I mumble so faintly that Ophelia worried, turned to see Caspian, but her face full of doubt, immediately gave Ophelia to understand that he did not know what to do either, the always cheerful and jovial captain had never shown himself like this before them, even in difficult moments he maintained a relaxed attitude, it was the first time they both saw the captain in that state and that was truly terrifying, especially Caspian felt a huge disconsolation when he account of the magnitude of the mistake he had made and the idiocy with which he handled the entire assignment. Ophelia felt sad for the captain and partly for herself, she had always resorted to the captain in her moments of greatest need within the laboratory, every time the major wanted to replace her or threatened to replace her due to her clumsy work, the captain always defended her, looked after her and talked to the major so that did not happen, when she first arrived at the laboratory, the captain helped her by answering all her doubts, as well as advising her so that she could get along with Caspian, due to the very diligent nature of Caspian, he was not very open to making new friends at work, in addition to the fact that their attitudes clashed by nature, directly against each other, Ophelia naturally so carefree and clumsy, on the other hand nature would be and responsible for Caspian. They did not get along well at first, but as if it were a lubricant, the captain helped to reduce tension at work, and to always have a good work environment. "Hey captain, what do we do now?" said Caspian. "Ophelia, you stay here with me, we will find large containers to store all the contaminated water that is on the floor, your Caspian goes to the town hall and finds out where the wastewater" said Lucian, rejoining and with a serious tone. Ophelia under running to the basement in search of some containers large enough to store all the water with worms, while the captain searched for containers on the surface, despite not remembering that there was something like that in the lower basement in the vague hope of finding something like that in the dark room that had given them so much trouble in recent days, under as fast as he could and once down, standing in front of infinite dark emptiness of the basement, Ophelia could discern the silhouette of the empty jars stacked in a protruding way from some boxes, hopefully taking out of one of the pockets of her robe a parchment with white phosphorus paste, like a ray of light that announces the dawn and a new beginning, the dark and empty basement of the laboratory was filled with light again. Ophelia''s heavy stride up the stairs with her hands full, the jingling of the crashing glass, the cracking of the steps, the vibrations of the glass, all felt so palpable in that solitude, like the water wetting his pants, the feeling of coldness in her legs intensified, and the idea came to her mind, the feeling that this time perhaps they could not overcome the calamity. The captain with his knees submerged in such dangerous water, hunted the small worms, like a bear in the river in search of food, waiting for the fish to jump in order to ensure their survival one more day. With a calmer expression, the sensibility returned to him the moment he was left alone with his thoughts, he remembered that he had not learned everything he knew, sailing through a calm sea, tragedy and conflict, the pressure had made him calm in the face of calamity, he had been marked in the forever, his first storm in the middle of the sea, he was so young that he did not have a beard even, when suddenly the water reached the bow, and the ship moved next to the outbursts of the sea, a young Lucia overwhelmed, simply stopped thinking, and in the middle of the storm he looked for the mast and with the strength that remained he held onto the mast until the storm passed, he managed to survive safely, although too exhausted, in the end the calamity passed. Now that an even greater calamity occurred he felt small again for a few moments, he felt that his effort was useless, unless they managed to locate the worms that had gone down the drain. Now these cups were his mast to which he was fastened, but did he not know when the storm would last? how long would you have to hold on to them? this storm was different, it would chase him, until it ruined his life and his career, this catastrophe would go on and on until they managed to solve his disaster, Ophelia''s heavy step going up the stairs with her hands full of hope of being able to repair things, Ophelia''s expression of satisfaction when leaving the basement with jars in hand, was what encouraged him to follow the captain. "Ophelia, help me with your magic, evaporate the water so that we can collect the worms faster, and as soon as there are only puddles of water left, we collect everything," Captain Luc¨ªan said as he stood up and showed a smile. "Captain, it is necessary to wear gloves when picking up these worms" he said as he took out the parchment and prepared a piece of coal, phosphorus, and many rocks. "They told me that worms do not affect people through touch, but anyway use them as a precaution, we need to study them even more" he said as he removed himself from the esplanade to leave the space free. Ophelia knew how to enhance her fire with the help of phosphorus and other materials to be able to maintain the fire, that the water evaporated was simple, but they did not know the effect it would have on the worms, could they withstand the heat? but their critical situation did not allow them to spend more time outside, they preferred to kill the worms than to be outside wreaking havoc, so Ophelia set fire with her parchment and threw it into the water, which could not extinguish the fire despite being completely submerged, the water began to boil little by little and at that moment they realized that the steam could not escape due to the tightness with which they sealed the laboratory, the water evaporated, the steam gradually filled the place with a thick, hot and suffocating mist, since it was not pure water that was evaporating, (it had mixed with the acid), the feeling of suffocation was so much that Ophelia and the Captain had to leave the laboratory and wait with the doors open, for an hour for the steam to disperse completely, as soon as they entered, everything was wet by the steam and in the test area only a few immobile charcoal that used to be the parchment remained, scattered all over the floor of the test area the worms twisted like fish out of the water with such ferocity that they managed to advance on the solid ground, but it did them no good, as soon as Ophelia and Captain Luc¨ªa collected them, they managed to observe that some still twisted even inside the jars with water, while others remained motionless even before being captured, so they separated the worms that they left for dead from those that were not. As soon as they finished, the captain went into his office to report what had happened, and two hours later Caspian returned from the town hall. "Ophelia, where the captain is? I have something important to tell him" he said agitatedly. "He''s in his office, he hasn''t left there since we just..." she was interrupted by a great noise coming from the office. "Apparently the captain is very angry, angry and in trouble, he said he would tell his superiors what happened," ophelia said, head down. "And it will get even worse, they did not give me good news at the city hall as soon as I ask about the flow of wastewater," Caspian said just as head down. "Now if we spoil everything" said ophelia discouraged "Hey Captain!" "Why are you screaming?" Caspian said annoyed. "He asked me to let him know of your arrival." Luc¨ªan opened the door of his office and I invite you both to enter. "So tell me Caspian, they told you at the town hall?" he said in a calm tone even though there were files and ballots lying all over the floor. Support the author by searching for the original publication of this novel. "I was told that all the wastewater passes through magic filters and then they are given a second ecological filter, made with roots of magic plants that clean any impurities, and then the water is used for cultivation and feeding livestock. "Those worms are very elusive, those filters are not for human consumption directly they are usually given less maintenance, in addition the worms also have their own magic so they will be able to pass all the filters without problem, but they will not be able to enter the plants, so it will be a matter of collecting them on the surface of the crop fields, but if the animals take the water they will be infected and because they are animals we will not be able to identify those infected from the clean ones unless we do an examination of each one." "Hey captain, since I was exposed to those worms when collecting them from the ground, and Caspian will also help solve the problem, I think we deserve to know what those worms are and what they can do" Ophelia said in a confrontational tone and with her head held high. "I think it is fair, I love you both so I will tell you what we know about them, but you have to promise that you will keep it secret, because I have orders not to reveal anything to you, I do this because I trusted both of you, you understood!" "Got it!" they both said out loud. "It all began when one of the explorers, arrived on an island on the other side of the stormy mist, at first I did not notice anything strange, but while spending the days on the coast, he ran into some natives, he managed to communicate with them through drawings, and as soon as he gained their trust, the natives invited him to participate in a welcoming ritual, they offered him sacred water to drink, and the explorer when taking it, describes that he lost control of himself and he began to act on impulse, the distrust he still felt towards the natives was what led him to take a sample of the water and run away "I guess he did it out of fear", due to the involuntary reaction and the lack of verbal communication, these violent actions were taken badly by the natives of the island, which initiated a persecution, which we now know ended in the capture and death of our explorer, since he managed to send a distress signal before his capture, we learned that something strange was happening on the island, some time later 5 other explorers arrived in their search, they say that they followed the same familiarization process as the old explorer, and there were 3 explorers who took that sacred water, they say that they experienced the same bodily outbursts so unconscious, they describe that they felt as if someone else controlled their body, they were still scared and reacted violently, but their companions were there to immobilize them and prevent another tragedy, so the natives of the island let them go." "After the effect passed, the adventurers sent a report of what happened to the plant, later the government was interested in their testimony and sent them military and scientific help to find out what was happening, after a long time investigating and observing the natives they realized that the sacred water was made by mixing the juice of worms with water, although sometimes they also ate whole worms, their consumption is what causes that powerful effect on the human body, at first it was suspected that the worms were magical and took control of their predator, but investigations revealed that when eaten by humans, they for some reason die inside the stomach and their remains are absorbed by the body which causes a reaction in the body that translates into that feeling of being possessed, scientists can not yet explain why? of any of these things, even natives have been shown to be immune to the effect of worms. " "But as soon as the government learned of this effect, they immediately thought that, with enough research, they could develop a weapon with which the human body could be controlled, so they ordered that this discovery be classified and treated as a state secret, the government wanted to establish a base of operations on that island, to see how to cultivate the worms that grow and live in bodies of water for large-scale exploitation." "And what happened to the natives of the island" Ophelia said sadly, anticipating the worst "They naturally opposed, those worms are sacred to them, first they hid the worms and when they could not do it anymore because of the number of people who arrived on the island and the constant sieges by the army, the natives had no choice but to defend themselves using weapons, that is why when Caspian and I arrived on the island, the army was there on the island." "But if they had everything under control why would they need the help of an external laboratory like ours?" Caspian asked. "Although it seemed that they had everything under control the natives, they turned out to be formidable warriors, which made the army major nervous, since the natives with their unusual war tactics managed to cause great damage to the camp so the major made the request to transfer the investigations to the other side of the stormy haze, at first the government refused, because they wanted to keep everything secret, but as soon as the major exposed the risks of those warriors and the fragile position of the government in their investigations as well as losing all information, the government ended up giving in, and they transferred the investigations to safe land for them." "And why did they choose our magical laboratory out of so many in the area?" Ophelia asked curiously. "Finally, the reason why they chose our laboratory as part of the project is due to my history in the army and the quality of our research in magic, that is why the assignment of the work came in an emergency and I could not refuse it, nor could I tell them what was happening, and to avoid fraud, the major came to see me at the laboratory last week and to gain the trust of the high command of the government, he asked us to go and pick up the package in person, that was the reason why Caspian and I made the trip to the island of the Caxao tribe." "The Caxao tribe?" Ophelia asked strangely. "That''s what I call that tribe since their language is different and the sound they have heard most often is Caxao, the worms that alter all our behavior were also called that way, because they come from the island." "But moving on to the most important thing, I just notified the headquarters of the incident that, occurred here in the laboratory, they are obviously angry, and they will give us a punishment as soon as all this ends. For now I managed to negotiate with them so that they would let us solve this matter for ourselves and get them to accept, it cost me a lot of work and I had to ask for favors from old acquaintances in the army. They want us to round up or exterminate all the worms and make it as unobtrusive as possible, as it''s something classified, it has to be as soon as possible, so I have an important job for you." At that moment everyone got up, got on the wagon and once the wagon was full of jars of water, the horses pulled it and went in the direction of the village field, the field that had been indicated to Caspian at the town hall. Once they arrived they waited for the night and posed as pest control and with a magic lantern they managed to collect and isolate all the Caxao worms from the field. Once dawn came, Ophelia turned to see him and with the sun hitting him in the face, for a few moments she felt peace for the first time in such crazy days, she forgot for a moment the stress of being stuck in her investigation, the urgency of the work, the fights with her sister, they even stopped weighing the days she had been without returning home and without seeing her mother, when suddenly, Captain Luc¨ªan took her out of her trance state. In the distance you could see a wagon with bars, empty inside, with two armed men in front and horses at full speed advancing with the dawn, like a god who brings the sun with him to illuminate everything and burn the unworthy, as soon as Captain Luc¨¢n saw how far the wagon was heading towards where they were, he immediately knew the major had betrayed him and ran towards where Ophelia and Caspian were and warned them to flee, he would stay. Caspian insisted on staying with the captain, but as soon as the wagon started firing fireballs at them the three of them had to flee. Caspian and Ophelia kept running, at that moment many things went through Ophelia''s mind she thought about her mother and her sister in her friendship with Caspian, what she wanted to do after this, since, although she loved magic she did not see herself doing it all her life and now that the real possibility of dying is in front of her, only at that moment could she realize. But it looked like they were about to be caught anyway since Caspian was running faster than her and was leaving her behind, but suddenly a couple of men came out of an alley and knocked Caspian down right in front of Ophelia. Caspian recovered quickly while the men still blinded by the flash lay on the ground, immediately after Caspian headed towards Ophelia gave him his suitcase and pointed out that he should go to the outskirts of the village and flee while he distracted the men of the village. Ophelia followed his advice and ran and ran and ran until she reached the open field, where she found a carriage full of fruits on the road outside and taking care that no one saw her got inside and hid between the boxes in lying down, behind all the boxes. At that moment Ophelia felt that she could finally relax for a long time, she remained motionless hidden for a long time, and little by little her body began to demand what she needed and wanted so much. And finally Ophelia fell asleep. The HIghway The movement of the wagon caused by the cracks in the narrow river of land, in the middle of an immense sea of green grass, like a boat that stops its course due to a storm that prevents it from sailing, the horses stopped from one moment to the next, the owner hit them with his whip to keep them moving forward, but for more pain and whining that the horses released they did not want to move, in owner I try to force them in all ways, I try to convince them with food, I cause them pain trying to flee from it, but the horses with a strong determination, very rare to see in animals, remained in place, so the owner of the wagon decided to stay camping on the side of the road, due to the late that had been made because of the delay of the horses. The owner wanted to move the horses to the side of the road, but they did not want to either, and in order not to lose them, they camped in the middle of the road, and as soon as he was about to get his things off the wagon, he suddenly began to feel dizzy and fell asleep in the middle of the road. As soon as Ophelia woke up, she raised her head and saw that they were in the middle of the road, she took her head out of the back door and saw nothing but grass and a purple sunset, she turned her head to see the sides of the wagon and also saw nothing, under the wagon she felt the dry earth on her face, along with the wind gusts that occasionally occur in the field, she stained her hand with the dust accumulated on the outer walls of the wagon, while walking in front of the wagon looking for someone, but she only found a few horses resting, on the ground, she turned around the whole wagon but did not find anyone, nor did she see anyone in the distance in the field, she sat on the bank of the back of the wagon, grabbed and ate a starry fruit from one of the boxes she was carrying in the back. While eating, Ophelia noticed something strange in the distance, a large black bird that flew in circles, Ophelia looked at him, took his briefcase backpack and went to him with the vague hope of finding something, as soon as she reached, she ralized that was circling around nothing, as soon as Ophelia walked and stood in the center of the circle that the bird made with its flaps, the bird began to squawk, broke the circle it made and flew in the direction of the carriage, but as soon as Ophelia turned to see him, she did not see the carriage, but her village, the village from whom she had fled. It was completely empty, Ophelia could not believe it, she knew it was an illusion, that she did not know why, maybe it was an attack, an accident, she was dead maybe, Ophelia could not move, she did not want to move, she did not have the courage to move towards there, she did not know what was going to happen and she did not want to find out either, she stood still, thinking about what was happening, and she stood there in the middle of the road, at first she thought about waiting for someone else to pass and help them, but seeing the illusion that felt so real in her eyes, she realized that no one would come. Ophelia listened, but did not answer, she was afraid , she felt powerless with fear, listening to those screams in the distance scared her even more. Ophelia became demotivated from one moment to the next and frustration and anger took hold of her. This content has been unlawfully taken from Royal Road; report any instances of this story if found elsewhere. Then Ophelia bent down and took off her briefcase bag and saw him for the first time since she escaped from those soldiers. I take out a couple of linen scrolls, three empty jars, a few sachets with marble-like capsules of different types of rocks, and many, many dried herbs and flowers. And in a pocket adjacent to the general compartment was a jar of water containing the Caxao worms. BOOM it was heard that a loud noise came from the town, but not a voice was heard. Ophelia was frightened, the hope of being able to do something had made her momentarily forget her situation, but as soon as she heard the loud rumble she regained consciousness of her situation and the fear returned covered her body and her mind, like a shadow that returns whenever the sun goes down. Ophelia felt all her muscles tighten and the cold of the current of air enveloped her, but between the illusion and the time in the real world she did not know how much had happened so with long steps she began to advance slowly towards the town. And she walked and walked and continued walking, she felt the stony surface, every step she took she felt it, the indentations and the reliefs on the way caused by the rocks on the way, the subtle, but perceptible breezes of wind she could feel all over her skin, each time she breathed the throat and mouth they became drier because the air thinned with dust entered her, her nerves were at its maximum, it seemed as if her eyes had been blindfolded and all her senses had suddenly sharpened, and with each step they became more and more sensitive, at the same time that her step became heavier, because her fear did not disappear, and it seemed a kind of unconscious resistance of the body that kept her alert to everything. Until she finally get to the entrance. "I''m already here back home, YEE ¨C HAW." she said discouragedly. "It''s sad that my return home after five whole days of work is like this" she said discouragedly. " This is not the time to be sad, I have to find the owner of the wagon!" she said resolutely and with her eyes on the front. Ophelia walked along the first street and everything was empty, the houses with nothing, windows doors, roofed everything disappeared except for the structure the moment she entered the border between the countryside and the purple sunset and the illusion. She continued walking along three more streets until the rest of the town disappeared, roads, and houses, and nothing more in the center was a small jungle that lay hidden by the facade of houses, the whole jungle was of a single purple color, and now Ophelia thought about what to do while contemplating the monochromatic jungle in shock. Purple Forest Ophelia still in shock took a step back, two steps back, three steps back and stopped. "This is bad that I''m supposed to do, this is definitely caused by a plant, do we contaminate ourselves with pollen?" Are they spores of any fungus? "Stupid, that''s why the sunset was purple from the beginning, and you didn''t realize it, all kinds of plants and accidents had to touch us with the worst color of all" she said scared. "Calm down, Ophelia, remember what Caspian said that rock magic and plant magic are very similar in their properties, but not in their treatment." "What do I do?" "i only know about magic rocks." PUM another big rumble was heard, coming from the forest. At that moment Ophelia closed her eyes and with a great leap, entered the territory of the forest. She opened her eyes and nothing had attacked her yet, so determined, she went into the forest in search of the owner. She walked with a slight tremor in her legs, she could not hide her fear and was attentive to every plant of an intense violet, the light purple grass, the trunks of the trees of an almost bluish violet, the dust that the wind of a reddish violet lifted, all that did nothing but confuse her and in a moment she realized that she was lost, she turned in all directions, but I can not see anything that anchored her or gave her a sense of orientation only purple everywhere. She continued walking, hoping to reach the other side of the forest, which should be the same size as the town where she came from, until her backpack got stuck with the branch of a small bush, Ophelia pulled her backpack hard by the nerves, splitting the branch in two at once, which caused the bush to open one of the small cocoons it had and expel as a jet of water, orange spores, which dyed the air an orange color, Ophelia closed her eyes and backed up, but a burning in her nose was present. Ophelia with her eyes closed turned around and tried to run, but she stumbled right away and suddenly I hear BOOM, so loud that it hurt her ears, she opened her eyes and the air was so contaminated with spores that it seemed that there was now an orange filter through her eyes. Her pupils were painted a reddish color that was diluted by the water in her eyes, the veins inside her swollen, at the same time that she felt her throat close, and the burning, became present overloaded all her senses, she felt so many things at the same time, pain, regret, doubt, anger, sadness that paradoxically she felt nothing, a feeling of apathy dominated her at that moment. "Just hold on to the pain and keep going" Ophelia said to herself. She continued walking, it seemed as if from one moment to another the forest came to life, the plants and trees reacted to her presence, because near her every so often they expelled new spores, as if they tried to drown her with their own air, the air had become contaminated, the slow breathing, but heavy made so much noise that Ophelia numbed her own ear, which was bad news when you walked with your eyes almost closed and on the ground. The heavy air, constant with spores so light that only a few had fallen to the ground since they were first released, the spores in the air were so many that they seemed like a constant rain that they painted the hair and skin of the protagonist like drops of paint all over her body. Until in an outburst Ophelia screamed. Ophelia stood still, closed her eyes and just listened to everything around her, but her still-closed throat made her keep forcing her breath and numbing herself. Stolen from its original source, this story is not meant to be on Amazon; report any sightings. "Sir, I will also advance towards your position, please keep making noise." Ophelia shouted. Ophelia walked and the rustling of the leaves she stepped on could be heard. "Excuse me sir, are you the owner of a wagon that was driving towards the city?" asked Ophelia. "Yes I was carrying food and towards the neighboring city, but suddenly the horses began to behave strangely and in a matter of a blink I appeared in the sunset in this field with the purple sunset." "Don''t you know if something strange happened before?" Ophelia said. "Because this is a magical mishap, I don''t notice anything strange in sight." As Ophelia said this she got down on her knees and started crawling to try to avoid the spores as much as possible. "Magic? That''s impossible, I''m not a magician and I don''t have enemies who are magicians either" the lord exclaimed. A burst of spores could be heard in the distance, while the voice for Ophelia was getting closer and closer. "Listen, you must pay more attention along the way," Ophelia exclaimed. "Caspian told me that, although the crops of magical plants are controlled by the government, sometimes magical plants grow out of nowhere in new places, and since their effects are not naturally controlled, they end up bewitching people who pass near them." She kept walking until he stopped feeling the grass and started feeling dirt in his hands, which was a good sign. "Who is Caspian?" said the lord aloud. "And if we were bewitched by accidents, how did we break free?" The lord''s voice was slowly moving away. "Sir I hear your voice farther I tried to go in the opposite direction!" shout. "Caspian said that the effects vary depending on the way the magical toxin enters the body in talking about plant life, how we breathe it, maybe the effects have even reached the brain." "But there is a way to counteract it, with other plants, but I don''t know how to do it, I specialize in minerals and rocks," she said somewhat discouraged. PUM was heard so close and suddenly the man stopped responding. Ophelia with the calmest breath, opened her backpack, took out the dehydrated rose and with her eyes still half closed hit a nearby bush to cause another shower of spores, put the rose at the height of her face and like ash falling from the sky, the spores covered one by one the petals of the rose. And little by little it began to recover its color until it reacts with its environment in a violent way, causing an explosion of petals that, when extended through the small forest, ended up rendering all the surrounding vegetation unarmed. Ophelia on the ground, with her hand numbed, got up and with her deteriorated vision, walked a couple of steps, until she found the man fainted from the excess of spores and with orange skin, due to his overexposure to them. Ophelia carried the lord by one arm and took him out of the forest, they crossed the dirt roads, the empty houses, the potholes in the road. Everything looked avoided seemed to want to prevent his departure, but Ophelia remained firm and slowly managed to escape and return to the field. Where suddenly a rain began from one moment to the next, causing all the spores that were still seen in the air to fall to the ground, the illusion of the town and the forest disappeared, the rain cleaned the skin of Ophelia and her companion, and forced the black bird that was still flying everywhere to land on the ground. The bird approached Ophelia in search of shelter, she taking advantage of the fact that she could not fly, kicked it and stomped on its head, leaving a red spot on the ground. Ophelia was shocked, she did not know why there was one, it was as if her body had revealed itself before her mind and by a unilateral decision she decided to do what she did. But then the purple sunset began to gradually disappear, just as the lord on her right side evaporated and she gradually regained her strength, until she closed her eyes and when she opened them again she was again lying in the wagon. He got up in a hurry, jumping low from the wagon and regardless of whether it was raining Ophelia looked everywhere for the flower, held his glasses and moved his head from side to side desperately, until he located the purple fungus hidden in the grass, less than five meters from the carriage. Ophelia ran at full speed, towards the mushroom and with a jump she crushed it, putting her two feet together. I turned to see the carriage again and with the tearful view of the water in his eyes he saw how the man got up again, stained with his clothes stained with mud from the rain and the road. Lord Eamon In the land of Gh¨¢ishan a tall man, brown hair, light yellow eyes and a white complexion, got up from his bed, and went to take a shower, the shower of his room, spacious with a jacuzzi, and silver shower and water knobs, as well as the sink were of a matte gold, the walls and the floor of a white marble, which reflected all the light that passed through the large black frame window, to the side of the shower, the wall of his dressing room and closet covered by a large glass, he took off his trousers and observed himself for a while in the mirror, before taking off the top of his pajamas, he opened the knob and while he continued to observe the water fall, for a few seconds before going for a bath. With his blue shirt, under his velvety sack, bright red and deep as blood, low with his shoes and his black dress pants, he sat in the dining room and waited for his servants to bring breakfast, suddenly two porters opened the large golden doors of the dining room with breakfast carts, his servants with their cloth in hand and their blue livery with red tinsel, began to serve the dishes on the table. Beige porcelain plates, finely served and all the same size, the colorful glass jars in the background, with black tea, chamomile, mint, white tea, behind these jars, the clay pots with coffee, and cold milk awaited him, as well as the dishes with fruit of all colors, grapes, orange, chopped papaya with honey on top, dishes with turkey, chops, minced meat and vegetables, noodles and soups, was what I had to have breakfast. Once he had finished eating breakfast, while his servants were cleaning and picking up the leftover, one of them spoke to him. Eamon still sat at the large thick glass table, leaned over the back of the dark wooden chair and capitulated cushions, took the letter from his subordinate''s hands, broke the wax seal, and began to read the letter. At night Eamon, with the help of his servants, changed his house suit for his gala suit, a three-button suit with blue stripes on the black fabric, gummed his hair back and shaved his beard and mustache. If you spot this story on Amazon, know that it has been stolen. Report the violation. "Did you get the gift I asked for?" Eamon asked another of his servants. "If this is all as requested," replied this one. Eamon finished getting dressed and went down all over the castle, to the entrance, where his driver was waiting for him with his carriage, with his work suit as black as the night that was approaching. Once inside his wagon Eamon took out the little box lined with white velour, upholstered with black snowflakes on its outside, he opened the box and on a small cushion capitulated in the center lay a pink gold necklace with snowflake embellishments all along the necklace, Eamon put on some suede gloves and took the necklace by the center of its main adornment a black flower with white embellishments on each petal, and observed it, carefully for a few moments and said. He did not have the habit of talking to himself, he very rarely did, but he let it go, he assumed that it was because of the stress of working all day, since the morning, coupled with the stress caused by going to a party of people, with whom he did not feel comfortable. Suddenly he felt a small dizziness and a desire to vomit suddenly attacked him, which was strange, since he had been traveling in a wagon since he was a child, even shortly after eating, and he had never felt dizzy from the movement of the wagon. Eamon continued to stare at the ground for a few minutes, because the feeling in his stomach did not give him the security, to put his head back in and risk staining the entire interior. So I passed a stretch of the way, until the tingling sensation in his stomach lightened a little and when Eamon was sure that he would not vomit, he put his head back in and still with his suede gloves on he took the necklace out of his right pocket and put it back into his box carefully. He could not help feeling a certain mysticism towards that necklace, since he had begun to feel bad, as soon as he took it out of its box, for the first time. Unaware of the mental and physical odyssey that his lord lived on the way to the party, the driver in his black velvet silk suit, which was confused with the growing gloom of dusk, opened the wagon door, Eamon immediately came down with a serious expression that quickly passed to a relaxed and cheerful expression, more in line with the occasion. And full of nerves Eamon stopped for a few seconds, took a deep breath and turned the carriage around and went up the stairs in the direction of the mansion, which from the outside you could see all the lights on, you could hear the noise of the party from the stairs, which took Eamon out of his thoughts, and they returned him to reality, Eamon advanced, without expecting that his symptoms in the carriage would make this an unforgettable night. The accident in the bathroom Lord Eamon walked at a steady but slow pace, as slow as he could, stopped constantly to accommodate his suit, checked the cuffs of his white shirt, unbuttoned and re-buttoned his suit, checked his ankles of his suit, bent down to check his shoes, black as charcoal, with the microfiber of his front pocket. All this he did at different times, as he climbed the stairs. Well, the confidence he showed since he got off his wagon was false, his instinct told him that something was wrong, very wrong but it was too late to step back, he just had to move forward and get to the party that made him feel so bad, he did everything in his power to delay the moment of his arrival, but his wagon had already left with the others and at the top of the stairs was Mrs. Amara greeting him, him and the guests behind him. Eamon reached the large door with black frames and blue crystals, the color of the sky. "Good night, young Eamon, I''m glad that you attended the party," Amara said, greeting him cordially. "Yes, since..." Eamon said bitterly, which quickly changed his mind to a more cheerful one. "Excuse me..." Mrs. Amara turn to see him surprised. "Nothing!" Eamon said almost shouting. "you don''t care," Eamon continued in such a low tone that he got lost in the noise of the party. "Excuse me, Lord Eamon, I''m already old and my ear must be failing," Amara said as she apologized. Eamon tilted his body and nodded, while showing a kind smile, entered the hallway of the mansion and continued walking towards the party hall. Eamon continued walking, walking through the large corridor adorned with large and voluptuous dark wood furniture, which contrasted with the white walls and golden ornaments embedded in them, the white marble floor, completely clean, gave the feeling of walking on ice, the enormous height of the corridors, the lantern chandeliers and the presence of paintings and paintings in the parts, where there should be windows, made Eamon feel like he was locked up. But not because of the corridor, but because of something else that he did not know and was not going to leave him alone for a while, nerves seized him with every step he took and he felt like it was increasingly difficult for him to pretend to laugh. Until I reach the entrance of the living room. And for a few moments they both saw each other''s faces directly, Mohama saw Eamon''s face with surprise, and then with curiosity, as if he didn''t understand what was going on, and Eamon saw Mohama''s face with the same nervous smile, the whole time that their faces and then their gazes collided. And suddenly. At that moment a great relief ran through his body and Eamon laughed, it was the first genuine laugh in a long time, and it was a laugh of relief, although at the same time nervous. And Eamon laughed along with his other chat mates, and suddenly Eamon abruptly turned around and walked away from there without stopping laughing, and without saying anything to anyone he went to the bathroom and ran to lock himself. Once in the bathroom, Lord Eamon stood in front of the large mirror with a golden frame on the porcelain sink with inlays of different and colorful stones that simulated a rainbow, Eamon opened the faucet and made water on his face repeatedly, until he struck with both hands on the edge of the sink at the same time. Vomit in the sink, at first his vomit was thick, well formed and with yellow spots and browns throughout the yellow mass that he regurgitated, but his instinct told him that the problem had not been solved, and with his hand still stained by vomit he put it back into his mouth and vomit was provoked again, but this time transparent vomit, it looked like a kind of slime, it was the only thing he had expelled, his body no longer had any matter to expel and this time he had only expelled liquid. And suddenly, someone knocked on the door. "It is busy," said Lord Eamon, gasping for the effort previously made. This narrative has been purloined without the author''s approval. Report any appearances on Amazon. "Will it take long?" said a female voice on the other side of the door. "If I''m going to be late, you can stop bothering me!" Eamon shouted. "Sorry..." he replied. "I''m very sorry, miss, I don''t know what''s wrong with me lately, it wasn''t on purpose," he answered in a voice still weak from mental exhaustion. "Excuse me! I could apologize to the lady," a male voice answered now, as he knocked on the door vehemently. "I already apologized her, you could shut up now!" Eamon shouted. "Damn idiot, what kind of people Mrs. Amara invites to her party." They said on the other side of the door with a calmer tone. "Well, she invites people more important than you and your wife on trumped-up charges," Eamon shouted in a burlesque tone, while again covering his mouth. "What the fuck did he say?" exclaimed the man on the other side of the door. But at the same time there were whispers coming from a girl, (probably his companion) that seemed to calm him, suddenly the gentleman answered him with an equally low tone and the voices became fainter to the point of becoming incomprehensible to Eamon, who was still covering his mouth. Until suddenly silence took over the room again and Eamon knew that the couple had left. Eamon gave a choking scream with the forearm of his suit, and gave another scream, and scream again, and he did it again, to vent the frustration he felt about his situation, every scream coming from his mouth dying on his forearm immediately preventing the noise from spreading beyond the bathroom. Until at one point Eamon stopped screaming, he felt better now with all his helplessness and anger released. After the incident, Eamon knew that he could not just stay and wait for the next accident, he could not talk to anyone until he knew what happened to him, so he proposed that as soon as he left the bathroom, he would flee the party and go home to see his family''s doctor. But before leaving, Eamon''s manners did not let him leave without first cleaning the entire sink and the mirror, rearranging his suit for the last time. When Eamon finished cleaning his suit, still alert, he hurried to open the door and accidentally knocked and knocked down Rosa, Amara''s youngest daughter, with the golden doorknob, who saw everything in the distance. "Listen to me Lord Eamon, what''s wrong with him? that''s no way to behave when you''re invited to a party." she said excitedly "Excuse me, but how could I know that she was behind the door," Eamon said with a calmer tone and bowing his head in apology. At that moment the girl began to cry and rub her forehead for the blow. Amara took a deep breath as she put her hand to her chest and put on a face of indignation at the words of apathy that Lord Eamon directed towards her. At that moment, the guards arrived in the corridor and as soon as Amara saw them she told them. "Get this unwanted man out of my house, but not in the main room, I don''t want you to ruin my party," Amara said a little calmer. "Shall we throw it out the window? Ma''am, you have no other secondary exits, this part of the house," a guard replied. "Do what you want, but I want him out," Amara answered, still annoyed. "Let''s go, Rosa." At that moment, the girl stood up and ran to her mother''s arms and as soon as Amara held her in her arms, Amara grabbed her hand and together they left the hallway towards the party hall. At that moment, the guards formed a wall across the corridor and left Eamon unable to escape, so the desperate man ran down the corridor and jumped, trying to knock down the guards, but they stopped him between everyone, they held him by his legs, arms, hips, neck, and between all the guards they arrogated him through a window, previous to the wall that the guards made with their bodies, and Lord Eamon fell from a distance of 2 meters high towards the mainland, giving a dry blow, since his fall sounded, even though the grass slightly dampened his fall. Eamon raised his head for a moment and saw his carriage in the distance parked, he tried to shout at him, but a shout from a guard was heard first, warning his colleagues outside about Eamon, which caused the outside guards to hold and arrest his driver, who was behind the wagon relaxing a little. Eamon, seeing this, with his face full of earth, got up and decided to flee on foot, and then return for his driver, but as soon as he went around the garden in search of an exit, he ran into more guards who were waiting for him, Eamon cornered, turned around and continued running throughout the field, while the guards seemed to be bullfighting him. Until he ran into a wall covered with roses, he turned to see his pursuers, seeing them so close, Eamon held onto the large stems of the rosebush and began to climb it, his hands were bleeding and his suit was tearing with every second he was in contact with the thorns of the rosebush, and so with a titanic effort on his part and cursing everything loudly as he screamed, Eamon climbed the wall and when he was on the other side, his hands gave way and let go, leaving Eamon to fall on the other side on the pavement. Eamon writhed in pain for a moment, which he felt eternal, and then rose with remarkable weariness in his face, turned to look at the wall, and hearing nothing, knew that they would no longer pursue him, for the guards had accomplished their task, and with slow steps, and limping on his left foot, he crossed the street and headed back to his mansion in the middle of the dark night, his suit torn to pieces, his hands injured, his face dirty and his body wounded. Highway Conversation "Hey, how long until the next city?" Ophelia said. The man, taking out of his coat a notebook of green leaves, and yellow seams, opened it and closed it multiple times, as if wanting to turn it on with sudden movements, it seemed an outburst of anger from a small child, but the face of the serene man seemed to have everything calculated and suddenly closed the notebook and on the cover appeared a black line, which occupied only a quarter of the length of the cover of this, the transporter saw it for a moment and said. "We will reach the next city, city at dusk, there are no more towns in the middle of the walk so we should have no more delays." said the man while he kept his notebook and took out a map. "Excuse me, what did you say the next city was called?" I ask Ophelia with some regret. "Ga¨ªshan, it is a very beautiful city, known for its tall buildings, I am surprised that you do not know it if it is very famous" said the carrier, while looking at his map. "To be frank, I only know it by name, I spent most of my childhood and adolescence studying magic and I have ignored everything else, I think I will have its her name on occasion, but I do not remember well" said Ophelia with a tired face. "It is clear to me that you have not traveled much truth, Miss Witch, but I am sure that you sorcerers, you traveled often," said the lord, as he put away his map and paid attention again on the way. "Please! i already told him not to call me that way is embarrassing ¨C said Ophelia "In the previous town everyone called her that, and you didn''t complain," said the man with a smile and a mocking tone. "Yes, but I''m sorry to be called that, when we stopped to rest in the town in the middle of the road, everyone was excited when they knew I am a witch and I couldn''t do anything to get rid of them, it makes me feel more important than I really am, and they make me feel like a fraud." I exclaim Ophelia. "I''m really traveling for work, and to correct a mistake of mine and my colleagues, so I don''t feel like the person who deserves all that attention, and I don''t know if i am up to my assigned task," Ophelia said in a tired voice. "You saved me from that illusion on the way, the truth is I do not know what would have happened to me, if you had not appeared, so I think you will be able to do that task that now seems so difficult." "It was nothing, actually, the spores of the fungus caught me too. And I had to find a way out." Ophelia said while thinking that the carrier had not noticed that she sneaked into her wagon. "I never thought that roads could be this dangerous, if they are not maintained, since I was a child my mother told me not to enter the forest alone, because all forests are enchanted by nature, but, I never imagined that magic could reach the fields and roads." "Usually there is always a magician who walks the roads through every city and town, looking for magical plants that could grow spontaneously on the roads. Since in nature plants and rocks almost never control their magic, so they tend to react with everything." Ophelia said with the seriousness of a magician. "That did scare me, the illusion felt very real, besides I can''t realize at what moment, I transmigrated from realities, when I realized I was already in the middle of that cursed forest," said the transporter, while his body experienced small involuntary spasms, when remembering that moment. "If to our bad luck we got the worst kind of color and living thing we could have found, on a road, but fortunately, we didn''t waste as much time in real life as it might seem," Ophelia said. "My body is still alert even though that happened several hours ago, although it relaxes me a little knowing that a worse experience than that, I can''t live." "If that fungus was very full of magic, the effect it had on us shows it, and as confirmation we had its purple color, what bad luck we had," Ophelia said as she looked at the sky. "Are all purple plants so bad?" asked the carrier with a tone of disbelief. "It''s not that they are bad on their own, what happens is that they are volatile due to their great magical charge and that makes them very volatile and therefore dangerous for us and other creatures," Ophelia said. "I''m going to give you a survival tip that can help you prevent this from happening again, magic is divided into spectrums of light that we can see, starting from the safest one that is red magic, to the most volatile one that is Purple magic, if you see a purple plant on the road again move away from it, and as soon as you arrive go to the city or town, let the magician know that he is living in that place, even if it is not a fungus, we do not know how he can react to you," Ophelia said, resuming her straight posture and clear and strong voice. If you stumble upon this tale on Amazon, it''s taken without the author''s consent. Report it. "So magic is classified by its properties or colors, right?" "Yes, both flowers and plants absorb the energy that comes from the sun and the atmosphere and transform it into magic, the color of their petals and stem serve to identify how much magic a plant has accumulated, from there we base ourselves to know its utilities in the world of magic, if its flowers are red, that means that the accumulated magic is very little so they are very stable flowers, but the more magic the flower absorbs, the color of its petals changes and over time, the being becomes less able to store all that magic, so seek to release part of that magic, with whatever it allows." "And they end up becoming plants, very reactive with their environment, which is a potential danger, since the effects of magic vary depending on the living being that releases that magic and the conditions in which it is released, that magic, that''s why when she takes out the rose in the middle of the magical forest and bathes in spores, it reactivates and reacts violently." Ophelia said while seeing her travel companion. "And why don''t magicians look for these plants, if they grow anywhere?" "When the roads were built, places were chosen where plants did not grow actively, only grass, but even then there were cases like ours and a charge was created that consists of wizards wandering the road in search of magical flowers, and collecting the flowers, or failing that they eliminate them if they are very dangerous, but it is kept secret so that people continue to use the roads normally, and avoid entering the forests." "Then yes, all the plants have magic, right, but then how come the grass doesn''t do anything to us?" said the man, turning to see Ophelia and staring at her as he asked the question, demonstrating his great interest in the subject. "It''s easy, what happens is that all living beings need magic to survive, and green is the color of life, of their life, the color of flesh shows it, that is also due to the amount of magic we need to survive, so as soon as we die the human body, it turns gray, since it lost its magic, its life support." Ophelia said a little uncomfortable by the look of the Lord. "Although there are still many things that we magicians do not know about rocks and plants and their magical processes, we are not as able to understand one hundred percent the processes behind rocks and plants, their process of transformation of magic, or why? Humans cannot use magic naturally, and we must look for it outside." Ophelia said with a forced smile that betrayed her feeling of discomfort, because she had never liked being the center of attention. "I guess after all magicians aren''t all powerful yet." he said with a small smile, as the carrier''s satisfied face returned to see the road. Suddenly their conversation was interrupted by the noise of a very large camp, which took the transporter by surprise, as it was very close to the city of Ga¨ªshan, so much so that the entrance to the city could be seen in the distance, if you stood on the roof of the wagon. "you did not say that there were no more villages in the middle of the road, in the last village we lost many hours because of the people and I could not rest well, because of the people." Ophelia said strangely. "That''s not a town, that looks more like a camp, they''re giving us a sign, I''m going to stop," said the transport man. The man made a movement with his whip and the horses gradually slowed down, until they were completely standing next to the camp and a man in a gray suit and golden ornaments approached them. Ophelia and the carrier, thanked the officers with a gesture of gratitude and with a movement of their whip, the horses resumed their pace, leaving Ophelia very thoughtful about what the officers behind said. And so with a small delay and more determined than ever to fulfill her duty as a magician, Ophelia kept silent the rest of the way, while mentally preparing herself for what might be found in the city of Ga¨ªshan, and with a small delay they arrived with dawn at the great entrance to the city. A hunch Ophelia, thoughtful about the restaurant fight, it was just a drunken fight, so the officer described it, but something did not leave her alone, the grinding of the wheels invaded her thoughts, the feeling of restlessness followed her, no matter how far they would go from that place, no matter if they turned left or right, and no matter how hard she would try, Ophelia could not think clearly, something inside her warned her about the restaurant. "Stop!" Ophelia suddenly shouted. "What''s wrong?" the frightened driver replied. "I don''t know" Ophelia said with her face wrapped in surprise "but... something doesn''t leave me calm, that restaurant in ruins, somehow it gives me a familiar feeling" and she was silent for a moment while she bowed her head "And I have to find out what it is, that feeling, I feel that I get disoriented, the farther I get from there" She said in a firm voice, while raising her head. "Okay, I guess we say goodbye here, I must continue with my work, good luck, miss magician" said the driver with a smile. "Thank you very much for your help," Ophelia said as she replied with a smile. Even with her hands on the wagon, Ophelia felt as she resumed her step, and forced her to let go of the railing she was holding, letting it go. She took a few steps back until she reached the sidewalk, and turned in the opposite direction of the wagon, determined to silence her anguish. A faint smell of burnt pine and cedar perfumed the atmosphere near the ruins of the restaurant, producing joy in those who were there, after the tragedy, which made the work of the policeman in charge of monitoring the area heavier, because people constantly approached with the intention of obtaining, even if it was, a small moment of enjoyment in the midst of all the chaos that is living in the city, in addition to running to prying eyes, which some even asked the policeman for details, which of course he did not give to anyone outside the police. Ophelia arrived at the place after asking for instructions, from the inhabitants of the place, she was so focused on herself, that she did not pay attention to the road, and when she got out of the wagon excited, her feelings of confidence and anguish mixed, obscuring the reality of her situation, and she only regained clarity when she realized that she did not know where in the city she was. Once in front of the ruins of the restaurant, the sweet and fresh aroma encircles it instantly. Ophelia closed her eyes for a moment and let herself be carried away for a moment by that sensation, she concentrated on her breathing and feeling how that soft aroma that caressed her nose, a concentration technique that she learned in her student years, she felt that in this way she put a funnel to all that stream of thoughts that came to her constantly. Slowly serenity returned, however, someone took her out of her affair with herself. Reading on Amazon or a pirate site? This novel is from Royal Road. Support the author by reading it there. Ophelia, only let herself be carried away, lied to be able to access the ruins of the restaurant, but the truth is that as a recent graduate and a small town girl she did not know what the dynamics between policemen and sorcerers were like, well, she was locked in the laboratory all the time, and from the laboratory she went home with her parents, and repeated the routine until the day she fled. He prayed inside that the officer would not notice his farce, at least until he could find something that would be useful. Ophelia bent down to better examine the debris, while the officer followed her closely, his gaze still fixed on the identification. "Could you tell me what happened here?" Ophelia asked with a serious tone. While contemplating the disaster, Ophelia turned to see the officer, to recover her identification, and his back could see another sorcerer walking in the distance, who was heading towards where they were. The officer was thoughtful for a moment, before accepting his offer with a nod. And instantly being dragged by the arm by Ophelia through a few streets, at a very hurried pace, until Ophelia put enough distance between them and the wizard, did not let go of the officer, while they ran in the opposite direction, now independent of each other, they did not know where they were going, Ophelia just ran aimlessly, and the officer followed her without hesitation, but that was the least of it, the witch already had a local to guide her through the city, so the most important thing for her right now was to stay safe and out of the radar of the authorities.