- May the Rakuro’x be by your side - the Mayor Queen said, then the floor began to shake very hard, and in the right side I saw a girl, who looked just like Julia, about to been thrown to what seemed like really hot water, and a lot of dangerous obstacles and nokantori’x began to appear on the arena, I didn't know if I had to save the girl or myself, until the girl started screaming, I was frozen in fear, I could feel my blood running fast through my veins, but I thought how disappointed would be Julia if she could see me and how angry my father would be with me if he knew that I was scared, so I made an effort to analyze the entire arena, the first obstacle was a big pond, I had wasted a lot of time being scared so I couldn't swim to cross it, besides it was very dirty, and it was too big to jump over it, but on top of the pond there was a nokantori branch, I looked around once more and I found a rope floating in the pond, I took it out from the water, and throw it towards the branch trying to create a swing, when I saw it was "safe" I jumped. The next obstacles didn't seemed that dangerous, in fact it was just a rocky hallway, I thought that if I ran through it I could recover the time that I had lost, but I was wrong, once I stepped foot on the hallway the nokantori’x and the walls began to shoot little arrows, one hurt me, I could feel the arrow in my right arm, but for some reason it didn’t hurt, I throw myself into the ground, and as I just couldn't stand up and ran, I just sneaked my way out from the hallway trying not to be hurt by another arrow.
When I arrived at the other side of the hallway, I took a deep breath and pulled out very quickly the arrow from my arm, I saw too much blood, but I tried to ignore it, I could also see even closer the girl which excited me a little. The next hallway was also empty, except for a long net on top of the hallway, but this time I waited for something to happen instead of beginning running like a crazy mlykuri and risk to be hurt again, then the ground began to shake again, and the floor became mud, quickly I climbed one of the nokantori’x so I could reach the net and used it like monkey bars, but with one branch I hit my head so hard that it began to bleed, yet I continued climbing like nothing had happened, then on the other side there was a big wall, with a long rope hanging from the top of the wall, I was going to climb the wall calmly using the rope, because I could tell that was the last obstacle, but when I grabbed the rope the mud level began to raise, so I climbed the wall like if it was lava raising.
When I reached the top, the girl was no longer there, instead I found Muknilat Matinzu with a nurse besides him.
- You're bleeding a lot Hadsan, you need to go now to the infirmary before you pass out - he said, and I went with the nurse to the infirmary, there she cleaned and dressed up my wounds, I also asked her what was the serum they injected me with before the test, she explained again to me, because apparently they told us in the preparation meetings, that it was a combination between adrenaline, so if we got hurt during the test we could continue it without any pain, and a special hallucinogen that made us see some of the obstacles, like in my case the mud or the dirty pond, and that also made us believe that the person we loved the most was in danger, the fact that I saw Julia made me blush, I felt a little embarrassed.
I stayed in the nlyflar’s infirmary for at least one hour and a half, and during all that time I tried to sleep, the feeling of my body came back, and everything seemed peaceful for a while; but then, all the nurses began shouting and moving around the infirmary, I didn't understand what was going on, but it looked serious.
- She is very zajanoi to be alive - one of the nurses said with a worried voice, and in the middle of my pain I tried to sit down on the stretcher so I could see who was the responsible for all that mess. I swear that when I saw Julia laying down on a stretcher covered in blood, I felt how my janzori stopped beating.
- Julia! - I screamed and tried to stand up, but immediately another nurse came and injected me with a sedative, and when I woke up again, I felt much better but also lost, I stood up from the stretcher and then a nurse arrived.
- You're Luke Hadsan, right? - the nurse asked me.
- Yes, I am - I answered and the nurse smiled at me and wrote something on her notebook.
- Joviaarliku[1]! You completed your Personality Test here are your test results - the nurse said joyful and handed me over my grey folder.
- Havarizh’te Hakmetali, also do you know what happened to Julia Kovar? - I asked the nurse a little bit rattle.
- I can’t tell you much but she was very zajanoi, still we needed to send her right away to the Qarihopte Markazi [2] - the nurse replied, and she was about to leave.
- Excuse me Hakmetali, but what about Julia’s folder? – I said hoping she would give it to me.
- Don’t worry about that, when her results were ready a messenger took them to the qarihopte, oh, you can go know to your house now by the way - she added and left.
I felt very dizzy, and everything hurt when I came out from the nlyflar, but that didn't stop me from going to the qarihopte to check up on Julia. When I arrived a nurse in the reception told me that Julia was on the room 546 on the fifth floor, I thought that her parents were going to be already there, and the idea of meeting them for the first time made nervous but expect for Julia and a bunch of machines the room was completely alone. She was sleeping, she had bandages all over her body, an oxygen mask on her face and a syringe attached to her left hand, I sat down in a chair that was near her bed, and while I waited for a doctor or her parents to arrive I opened the grey folder with my results, in it there was the paper that I filled up with all my personal information at the beginning of the preparation nachtrajari, plus a psychological analysis I suppose it was written after the first the part of the Personality Test and reworked after the second part, and under it there were twelve small circles that were supposed to represent the cities, only five of them where colored, that meant that I was allowed to live in the red, green, blue, purple or black city, it didn't surprised me actually, I close the folder and putted on top of my legs, I began to look around and immediately spotted Julia’s grey folder in the desk that was in the other side of the room, I tried to ignore it but the curiosity was killing me, so very quietly I stood up and grabbed the folder, for a second I tried to convince myself not to open it, but it was too late.
Up till this day I don't know what Julia did to get all the colors on her results, she could go anywhere in Agryssa, the thought of losing her for real that time terrified me, so I just closed the folder, but that didn’t stopped that strong feeling of dread, and 10 minutes later Julia woke up making weird noises.
- Zavan’[3] Julie, how are you feeling? - I said jumping from my sit and with a soft voice.
- I feel dizzy, and don't call me “Julie”, Luke, I'm not a baby any more - she replied with her smile broken and trying not to laugh.
- Are you okay Luke? - she added while looking at the bandage in my head.
- Don't worry about me, it was just an arrow in my arm and branch on my head, not a big deal - I answered.
- If you say so… How did I end up here? - she asked me.
- I still don't know, they wouldn’t tell, but your test results are here - I said shaking gently her folder on the air.
- What were my results? Open it! - she said more awake, and I opened again the folder.
- You got all the colors Julia - I replied trying to sound and look surprised, but I couldn’t avoid looking fuiraleh.
- Wow, really? How unexpected, but what about you Luke, what were you results? - she asked me while holding and shaking softly my hand.
- Red, green, blue, purple and black - I answered, Julia was about to say something, but her thought was interrupted by the opening door.
- I think you should go home now, but havarizh’te for coming here - she said, and her parents entered to the room followed by a doctor, and I just walked away without saying a single word. After one of the most painful praaduli rides in my life, I arrived at my house at about 18 hours, I went upstairs to my bedroom, I was too tired to do anything, even eating, so I locked the door, I hide my folder somewhere my father couldn't find it, I took off my clothes and went to sleep, but instead I began crying, because something inside told me that I had lost Julia in every way I could imagine.
[1] Agryssian expression that communicates to someone how pleased you are about their success or joy.
[2] The main qarihopte of the capital.
[3] Agryssian word used as a way of attracting someone’s attention, sometimes in a way that is not very polite.

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