I walk hallway on hallway back to the vast room. I open the door but the room is empty. Now where do i go? I start walking through the hallway, the oil lamps making the only sound. I keep my ears on alert waiting for any sound. I cannot open the doors, what if i see something i shouldn't.
As i turn hallway to hallway they become rougher, with moss on the corners.
A few meters away there is an open door, tall almost three meters, i get near and peek inside.
The room is made entirely of wood, long 20 meters, it has pews and metal wings at the end, large as a human. In the first pew is sited a person, i can see only his scattered brown hairs, loosing their luster. Phew, finally a person.
I start walking towards him.
"Sorry, am i bothering you?" i ask walking infront of him, he has dark eyes, long brownish hair falling into his shoulders, very thin, a short beard and a few patches of black around his neck. His eyes uncomfortably not closing.
He has a black jerking and brown trousers.
"I was praying, can i help you?" His voice low and comforting. I thought he would be more imposing.
I put a hand behind my head and smile "i lost my way, I don't where i am, i was looking for anyone that could help me"
He looks at me without making an expression "so you really lost your memory"
"Did you know me?" I point at myself.
He nods "you can say that" he points to the bench "come sit and pray with me".
I sit down beside him, the smell of something burning comes out of his body. "So who are you?" I say to him, he has his eyes closed.
He does not respond for a few minutes. I stay there in silence waiting.
"Im a believer" he finally says. Yeah i can see that.
"I meant what do you do? Do you do the same job as me?"
"I mostly do the paperworks, what comes in and what comes out, and to keep our organization standing and some researchs for a better understanding of our life" he slightly lowers his head "but i help wherever is needed, i don't close any path infront of me"
I put my arms on the back of the pew "so you are the boss, at least of the money and organization" he dosen't seem like it.
He chuckles "im no boss, I'm just a servant, and i do not make decisions, i just report"
Someone that does the dirty work. Is it a church or a mob organization?
"You should pray, i see that you've become very unbalanced, a little less than before but still are"
Before i was more unbalanced? I have two cores now.
"what is your name?" I forgot to ask.
"I'm Rumolus Ven" he says with his eyes attached to the wings. "You weren't close to our god before, and you don't seem so even now, be careful, the path of a wanderer isn't a good one"
"Wanderer?" I ask on reflex.
"Someone who has lost his way" so someone who doesn't believe in your god.
"I'll be careful, can you help me find the way?"
"I always help out someone who is in need of the right path" i smirk. I did put it in the right way.
"I have to find Bridge William" not that i really want too...
"I don't where he is but i can bring you to my place, from there i can send someone to search for him" he gets up and stays still for a second infront of the wings then looks at me.
"Works for me" i get up and follow behind.
We turn many hallways when we reach a open space on the right of a hallway, in it there is a guy of my age sitted infront of a table, on his left a door.
The guy has no hair, green eyes, a prominent jaw and sharp eyes.
He sees Romolus and gets up "mr. Ven"
Diligent. "Rick do me a favor, search for Bridge William and tell him that Tomh is searching for him then report to me what he says" he puts his hand up while going towards the door.
"Yessir" he brushes his shoulder with mine, he gives me a quick look and moves away.
Romolus opens the door.
A living room appears infront of my eyes, with chairs and table, with paintings of people of any kind hanged on the wall and a bookshelf, on the left there is a metal door and on the right a little corridor with two doors for wall.
"This is my little apartment" he goes towards some shelfes on the left and looks at every paper inside of it, he takes one out and gives it to me.
"This is the map of this place, it will help you navigate it" he opens the metal door "it dosen't show everything but wherever you need is there, you can keep it"
"Thank you" i put it in my pocket and follow him behind. This guy is useful.
Inside the metal door there are many side tables and in it scattered books and papers fill the room, on the right there are glass jars filled with red and purple stuff.
"What is all of this?" I ask him stepping slowly.
"My experiments" he moves a purple jar "i want to find out why we got these abilities, our first messangers ordered this for us" he says with a fervant look.
Scientific method eh, Henry you really layed some good bases.
"Did you find out something interesting?" I ask him while looking through some jars.
"Yes, the castle"
I slowly move my eyes towards his direction "what did you say?" He looks at me back.
"That castle, it has a weird smell, it always did have one" his eyes not blinking. "You have that smell"