When I was conscious again, I was not longer in the Celestial Room, I was back again on the Inkaffet's waiting room with the other boys and girls who had passed before me, I couldn't remember anything about the Personality Test, I thought I was the only one, but it seemed that everyone was as lost as me, including Julia, who had just came back and that with the help of the second Guardian she sat down on the first row of chairs, her eyes were still wondering, I was trying to stand up when Julia suddenly shake her head really hard, like trying to wake up from a daydream.
- Luke!? - she said loudly, almost screaming, she turned back and looked for me, then she stood up and went back where I was and sat right next to me.
- Are you okay Julia? - I asked her.
- I can't remember anything - she said like in shock.
- Don't worry, I think none of us remembers anything - I said. More or less an hour later, when the rest of the students were on the waiting room, the Guardians appeared.
- Most if not all of you may not remember anything from your Personality Test, it is possible that in the next hours you will start to recover your memories but don’t panic if you don’t - the second Guardian said.
- Go home now and rest, but tomorrow make sure to be at the city's nlyflar at 7:30 for the second part of the test - the first Guardian added, then Zernufi Parkinasa gave back with disgust the extra clothes some of us brought and right after it she, literally, kick us out from the Inkaffet with her "I hate you all" look that was so funny.
Julia's parents where in Blazhia[1] and I didn't even knew where my parents where, and as it was only 11:43 in the morning, so we decided to go to a small playground we found on our way out from the Inkaffet. When we arrived, there was a young couple and a woman with her two children, it was a little awkward, as the couple was sitting in the only bench on the park and the woman and her kids were using the seesaw and the swings, we didn't have more choice but to sit down on the wooden border of the sandbox, after a few minutes under the burning sunlight, I started to feel dizzy and my head began to hurt, but then some strange memories popped on my head.
- Julia... I think I might insulted the Silver Queen - I said after a while, Julia looked at me with her eyes wide open.
- That you did what? - she said very confused.
- Yeah, I'm not sure - I replied, then we began to laugh.
- I still can't remember anything - she said disappointed.
- Don't worry you will do soon - I said.
About 30 minutes later we began to get hungry, so we went to a nearby-by ilfrapitoh to buy something for lunch, but back in the playground it was too sunny to stay there, so I invited Julia to have lunch at my house, and she accepted with her beautiful smile, I putted the food on the basket of my bike, Julia sat on the back part, and we began journey.
It didn’t took us long to arrive, for some reason to come back was faster than that morning. The house was empty, as always, I entered quickly to the kitchen, with the bag of food on my right hand, and on the left door of the mrachjtazh I found a note wrote with a red pen, I didn't had to read it to know that my parents were in Verdya because of some "emergency" at their work, and that mean I won't see them again for at least one nachtrajari, I ripped off the little yellow paper from the mrachjtazh door and throw it into the kitchen trash with anger, I went back to the hall to look for Julia and ask her if wanted an arizahani with her food, but she was not longer on the krefari entrance.
- Julia?! - I said loudly.
- I'm in the living room - she replied, I went to the living room, still with the bag on my hand, and there I found Julia standing in front of the chimney, looking directly to a painting of my family that was hang on the wall.
- Luke, are you the one in the center? - she asked me.
- Well... yes - I answered confused.
- You don't look like yourself - she added.
- What are you talking about? This painting was made less than a year ago - I said very confused.
- Don't mind me - she said.
- Okay...? - I said still lost, that really creeped me out, but I ignored it, we went back to the kitchen, Julia followed me and sat on the kitchen's table while I searched for the arizahani’x on the mrachjtazh. When we both were done, Julia went to her house, because her parents were already back in the city, I offered to take her home, but she insisted on walking. After I cleaned up the mess we left on the kitchen, I went to the living room and I sat with my legs crossed on the big green carpet in front of the chimney, I was trying to understand what Julia meant to say when she said that I didn't looked like myself, so I stayed there staring the painting, like a very confused idiot, until at more or less 15 hours I began to feel hungry again, so I stood up from the floor and went to the kitchen to see if there were some snacks, but there I realized that my clothes was smelling wefnatezh, the same clothes I needed for the next day, so as I was alone, I took my clothes off right there in the middle of the kitchen, I washed them, and then I waited for them to dry while I ate potato chips half naked in the kitchen, havarizh’ Rakuro’x Julia was gone by then.
The next morning I was less nervous, yet anxious, I did same routine as the day before, I woke up, I putted on my clean clothes and an orange hoodie, I prepared and had breakfast and when I arrived at Julia’s house, I told her that this time it was better that we took the praaduli, and she agreed. Already at the city's nlyflar, Muknilat Matinzu was in the entrance with other two Guardians of the Inkaffet, different from the ones that helped us with the first part of the Personality Test, they told us that we needed to go to the nlyflar's lookers to get ready for the test, and at 8 hours the Guardians began to call names.
- Hadsan! - the Guardian said almost shouting, I stood up in one jump, I followed the Guardian, that was very intimidating; we entered to the actual nlyflar and it seemed a lot different, I came ones or twice when I was a little boy and it always looked like a normal okijare field, but this time it looked like some kind of barzhet zone that had a red spot on the left side and also with a lot of cameras everywhere, and I began to get nervous again, this was supposed to be the most difficult part of the test. The Guardian took out a syringe and injected a serum into my neck, I didn't know what was in that syringe, but it felt like something burning inside me, I tried to ask what it was, but the Guardian interrupted me.
- Stay here, and wait for further instructions - the Guardian said, and he entered to a small room made of glass, there I could see the Mayor Queen and all the kings and queens, maybe that glass was unbreakable or something like that, but that made me feel very unsafe, I mean, if they were locked up in that room that implied that the Test had to be so dangerous that someone could end up in the qarihopte[2] or even worse, and my own thoughts made me more nervous than before.
- Welcome to second part of your Personality Test, stand up on the red spot - the Mayor Queen said throughout a speaker, and I began to walk through the arena.
[1] The White City. People that are neat, immaculate, impeccable, clean, positive, optimistic, far-sighted, well balanced, sensible, discreet, wise, cautious, self-controlled, practical, confident, poised, self-assured, fastidious, critical, fair, lonely, sensual, perfectionist, shy, spiritual, that think carefully before acting, and that expect others to adhere to their high standards tend to live there.
[2] Agryssian word for the place where people who are sick or injured are treated and taken care of by doctors and nurses.

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