It spoke in this nasally voice, “Sorry… But that fruit is poisonous. I know those flowers smell so pleasant, but be smarter than that, Yink.”.

I did not like what it just worded. I demand, “Stand up, animal.”.

The Blue Yink push itself up with a confused look at its face, it gave me a strong eye contact, it questions, “Why did you called me… animal? That sounded… odd?”.

I get up, stood strong, kept myself under control, I announce my position, “I am Rit, daughter of the king, Donzou the Second of the Golden Keep. I am of the position of natural physics.”.

The blue Yink laughed out, “Bruh ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.”.

Then it utters, “You cannot be serious? Stop playing with me.”.

Sadness was getting to me, there was no way to prove the truth at this moment, but this isn’t important, I need to get back home.

I threaten the foul beast, “Look, just stay out of my way or the guards of the golden kingdom will make of you.”.

The blue Yink said, “What guards? Do you really think that the Onens will believe you?”.

As I start walking away, I said, “My father the king will believe me.”.

The Yink hop in front of me and said, “Look, you are clearly delusional. I know that the recent events may have caused some of us to go crazy, but we gotta stick together in this crisis.”.

I shout, “I am not one of you contemptable, disgusting… putrid… ugh!”.

The blue Yink pled, “Don’t do this.”.

I could care less.

I lost my sense of direction, but I think I’m still going south. I was running straight so I should have just run south.

Going slightly east which is my left, I continue. My aching stomach growls, my mouth dries as I start to dehydrate, my whole body weakening as I go on.

As I keep my senses keen for monsters, my ears… they are so… useful, being able to move them. When I tighten them, I can zoom in on the sounds, its strange but so… useful. I tighten my fists, this is not okay.

A large stomp came from the back right of me, I quickly run to my left forward. After a sprint, I got angry, but know, I must… continue on.

I move east south, then I reach a dirt road going north to south with a rocky mountain range at the east side. I smile, teared a bit as I am relieved that I am standing at civilization once again.

With that I continue south road to reach the gates.

After a couple of minutes, I hear wheels rolling the road service from the south direction from where I am heading. It could be travelers or guards. They can help me get home, but will they believe me? Surely, they will as they will recognize my high-class vocabulary and can answer any question of me.

Continuing, my fears fade away, but not my embarrassment as they will have to endure my disgusted form.

Then, a four-wheel storage cart for delivering goods, with two Endor guard knights armed with polearms at the seats as a sepia Gummus, a four-legged beast with a long head and horns, heavy duty they are perfect for carrying the weights of the golden kingdom.

I run up and call them in great joy, “Guard knights, guard knights of the golden kingdom, I am alive. Me, Rit.”.

The guards look back, one said in a high pitch voice, “Who spoke of that?”.

Catching up, I go to their right and look up, which felt odd as they are adult Onens such as I.

I request, “Slow down, for the daughter of the king.”.

The other guard with a slightly deeper voice said, “Rit? Where are you?”.

The cart slows down, and I reach to its right, I clutch my behind, so they make no attention to my shameful display. I told them, “Look down.”.

The lighter tone one, who was at the right of the cart, said, “Down?”.

They look around, then the right one looks down to me, she said, “Dammit, stupid sub-one, get out.”.

I pled, “No it’s me.”.

The guard points its polearm to me!

The other guard ask, “What is it?”.

The lighter tone answers, “It’s a Yink.”

I pled, “No, it is me, Rit, ad daughter of the king, Donzou the Second of the Golden Keep, I need assistance as I…”.

The guard shouts, “They are pretending to be like our royalties!”.

I defended, “No, no, it’s really me. I was turned into this. I need help.”.

The guard said, “You disgust us, foul beast!”.

They strike me with the polearm’s head, pushing me back and damaging my shameful chest. The guards then mount off the cart.

Despise just getting hurt, I warn of them, “Don’t do this. The king will make of you if I get injured.”.

The guards surround me, the deeper tone chuckling, “He he.”.

I request, “Give me any question that only I… I mean Rit can answer. Please, I can prove myself. I don’t want to inflict harm.”.

The deeper tone said, “These sub-ones are starting to creep me out with their excuse of spoken literature.”.

The light tone asks, “Alright, what line of species cannot be eaten under the law of the king?”.

Its question perplexed me, but I answer, “Onen, Cokrokin and Deponlorian.”.

The light voiced guard asks with a smirking tone, “Good, you stole a law book or got word of mouth and are Yinks in that list?”.

I utter, “N-no.”.

The light tone one said, “Exactly.”.

The deep tone one said, “Are you thinking of eating this one?”.

The light tone one said, “Yeah, it still a long way and I don’t feel like having wapper fruits, I need some protein.”.

I shout, “I am right here! Don’t eat the daughter!”.

The light tone guard kicks my face and knock me over, then stomps on my chest.

The deep one said, “Alright, I’ll start the fire.”.

I try to get the foot off me, but they were so heavy, I plead, “No it’s me… Rit. Please, I beg with my life at hand.”.

The light one hit my face with the bottom of the polearm.

They say, “Just shut up.”.

The deep one got logs out of the cart and place them at the road, then they took a match and emit a fire.

I spout as I tear up, “Please, no, I am an Onen, I am an Onen, I swear, I swear.”.

The light tone laughed, “Ha ha ha ha ha.”.

I went slight, I am going to be eaten by my own people. I am completely strip of my confidence, I can’t command them, I can’t reason with them, I can’t do anything.

I try to sliver out, but they press even harder, I mutter, “Stop. Please.”.

The light toned one ask the other guard, “Well anyway, have you been to the new Red Dile festival? They got some great Chi Chis.”.

The deep toned one said, “Meh, don’t like huge crowds. I just like doing the security and courier work while getting to know people on a personal level.”.

The light toned one said, “Yeah, I can understand that, especially they it is great working with you.”.

The deep toned said, “Thanks, you been a great employee to work with too.”.

The light toned said, “Yeah, yeah, no problem.”.

They then look at the cart, then said, “Hmm, we don’t have any seasoning.”.

The deep toned said, “That’s okay, I never had a Yink before so I guess we will get an idea for next time.”.

The fact that they are ignoring me like I am nothing when they should be looking up to me, I was sad, but a sadness I’ve never felt this low, this defeat, this empty.

The light toned asks, “Hey, do you…”. Then a spear with a teal runic at its head lops from the forest and impales the road in the middle, right of the cart.

The light toned on readies their polearm and demand, “Who’s dare? Reveal yourself aggressor!”.

The runic spear vibrates as it releases a pulse of teal arcane, making a dinging sound, its emanation reaches the woods.

The deep toned one spout, “I’ve never seen arcane like that.”.

The light toned looked around, then mocked, “Well whatever it is, it failed. Ha, it was most likely sub…”.

Then a pack of various animals with runic arcane of the same color of the spear surround us, looking at the guards with ferocious intend. I fade in dread, the light tone guard lay off their foot on my chest, but I just... curl up and close my eyes.

As I shake in fear of what to come, the beast attacks the guards. Yelling, mauling and slashes is all what I hear. I cling to myself, fearing to get bitten.

After some time, the sounds of the fight fade away, various footsteps go back to the woods and shortly after, there is only the wind.

Still curling like a ball, a familiar voice spoke, “You are such a Boi Wat.”. I didn’t know what that even mean, but it seems like an offense. I open my eyes and look up, it was the blue Yink again.

I ask, “D-did you did that. How!?”.

The Yink said, “How!? It was just a regular signal pylon.”.

I said, “I’ve never seen anything like that. I didn’t know you control the filthy animals.”.

The blue Yink bark at me, “Oh stop playing dumb, every Yink knows this technology.”.

I tear up, just realizing just how doomed I am, I burst out in pure hopelessness.

The blue Yink compliment, “Well, you got their weird accent right, but I still don’t understand why you are doing this?”.

I mutter words that felt so new to me, “I give up!”.

I get up on my feet, I shout, “Stay away from me!”.

Looking around, the guards were nowhere to be found, with the Gummuses dead and bitten, the cart is abandoned with a polearm on the ground.

Grabbing the polearm’s upper staff, it’s very heavy.

The blue Yink asks, “What are you doing?”.

I blurted, “I’m killing myself!”.

Yanking the polearm forward, then something is presses onto my back, then these threads came from behind me and warp around me from my shoulders to ankles, losing my grasp on the polearm. I am greatly shocked at this technology.

Falling to the ground on my left, I look behind, the blue Yink said, “That’s it, I have been following you to see what you are up to, but seeing that you are clearly mentally deranged. I will be taking you to the huts.”.

I didn’t struggle as I just didn’t have the will to do so. The blue Yink goes to the spear and tap its head two times, then after a second delay, an another one, after two seconds, another pulse emits three times at the same time of that of the blue Yink’s tapping.

A large, white furry creature with four legs and a muffled head with black eyes, wearing a leather settle, came from the north side of the road at its west. It looks like a Gummus but was much slicker and faster. It came to the blue Yink, then the Yink grabs me from behind and hang me from the right side of the beast, then the Yink grabs its spear and put it away in its back, then it goes to the animal and mount on top.

The blue Yink said, “Let’s go back, Anril.”.

It named the beast? How… odd. Regardless, the beast goes east, to where ever or whatever these huts may be, I didn’t have much of a reason to proceed forward anymore.