Chapter 12.

What kind of oppression.

Everything was perfect. Dandara, Gorn, and Zarek were ready to go and get Lucia and escape their realities… The spring would be open for a period of half an hour, so they had to be quick, skillful, and cautious with their movements…

They couldn't afford distractions, so the three of them moved forward and submerged themselves in the spring. Before the water entered their noses, the three of them called Lucia's name and appeared at the castle where the young woman was practicing certain activities with the prince of the Silver Mask…

Gorn and Zarek immediately told Dandara, but she was also witnessing… I don't think she's having a bad time, much less being tortured; in fact, she seems to be enjoying it…

Dandara turned around and said to them: let's go back to the spring, it's probably a confusion, she's not like that. I know Lucia, and I wouldn't fall for this kind of situation. But Zarek told her: what is seen is not questioned. Of course she's who we're looking for, only she's engaged in a new kind of torture...

Gorn had to clamp his mouth shut to keep from laughing, but it was true, things seen with the naked eye can't be contradicted; It was then that they returned to the door that had brought them to this place and walked out of the spring…

Gorn and Zarek told the young woman that it was best for them to each return to their own realities, to our homes. Perhaps your friend Lucia considers this to be her home now, and I don't think they'll treat her badly, because it seems she's enjoying the prince's favor…

Dandara agreed, but when they went to re-enter the spring, there were some bubbles as if the water was about to boil; however, it wasn't hot…

That seemed strange, but they didn't pay attention to it, and when they were told to take them back home, an electric current shook their bodies outside the spring, and the words came out on the wet sand: If you go to get something and don't come back with it, you can't go for something else or to another place…

The three of them stared at that; Gorn clutched his head and said: "It can't be. I mean, if we have to get Lucia out of here..." Zarek commented: "There has to be another way. Maybe if we try to go to where Lucia is and return with her, we can use this door again to get out to our homes, so I'll go for her. It's better that I steal her than for us all to go..."

Indeed, Zarek entered the spring and called Lucia's name, but a huge wave formed and pulled him out of the water, so the three of them tried to do it with the same result...

So, they would have to go the traditional way to bring Lucia to the spring, but if they did, they would be recognized, and that was far more dangerous than anything else, because the slavers were surely looking for them, and if they found them, the damage would be greater and with a cruelty that would surpass the morals of life and death...

So, looking at each other's faces, the three of them swallowed hard because they knew that the true The journey was beginning and their lives would be dangerously at stake…