We get in a vehicle as Tajjit tells the driver to take us to the imprisonment compound and gives him some money. This is the first time Ive been in a vehicle on wheels, everything outside the window goes by fast, in about 25 minutes we reach the place. It was just a small building with one window and a sign. We walk inside to find at least ten guards lined up on the walls, they ask us to state our purpose as Tajjit explains who he is and what our purpose is, then they let us see a person behind a glass window, she seems to know Tajjit as he replies back to her with a name.

“So how about it Teena?”

“Yeah, you’re clear to visit, but only for thirty minutes, no food or drink allowed.” She lifts a lever on the wall next to her as in the middle of the room a platform is formed. We stand on it as it takes us down below the building. We went at least ten stories underground before being dropped in a room with a guy in a blue uniform and a scar across his lip to his right eye.”

“Tajjit, haven’t seen you in years, I see you're in at least some good shape. Ready for round two?” as the guard cracks his knuckles.

“I got no time for fun and games Tate, just let us in.” He hands the man a piece of paper as Tate opens the giant iron door showing us a corridor of jail cells. This place is huge in my sight.

“How many cells are in here?”

“1000 jail cells, 438 prisoners. This hallway is prisoners A-M, go downstairs to your right to head to the hallway with prisoners M-Z.”

“Much appreciated.” Says Tajjit as he follows me downstairs to the second hallway. We start to pass by cells with numbers and peoples name on them, they watch us pass by, some making weird and sassy remarks that I just block out of my head.

“I know I said I wouldn’t interfere with whatever your doing Kodath, but who are we looking for?”

I try to ignore him as I get close, we pass by names that start with, Q, R, S, and then T, we pass at least 30 jail cells before stopping by the one I was looking for. Tajjit looks at the name beside the cell and looks surprised. Inside the cell was a person who had a pretty messy beard, he looks at me and looks back at his hands.

“What do you want.” Says the person who looks like hell. I take a gulp as I speak.

“Tayler, its me, Kodath . . . ” he looks at me again but this time he moves in the light to where I see his eyes, they shine in the light before he closes them.”

“What are you doing here?” Says Tayler as he looks at his hands again.

“I don’t know, something in me told me to, its been a long time.”

“Not long enough.” His voice growing with pain and anger as he lies down on his bed.

“What do you mean?” I say with more concern in my voice.

“I was a trouble maker back then, I did a lot of bad things, but worse is that I got my own brother killed.”

I remember his father telling me about these things, and about the time when he disowned Tayler, but I wanted to keep that to myself.

“How’s my mother?” he asks me.

“Shes fine, your father is fine too.”

“I didn’t ask about that piece of trash.”

“Why?” I ask him as he opens his eyes real wide and leans up to look at my eyes.

“Because he’s the one who put me here, he had a chance to make a bargain with them, but he just told them to take me away and never show my face to him again, so they took me away from my mother, my family and everything. I just want to go back to the village and live happily.”

“But didn’t you hear what happened-“ he cuts me off before I finish.

“No I don’t want to hear what goes on outside, I try to apologize, for me, my brother, my shame, but now, this place is good for me, its home, at least I know I can keep anyone safe from me, pretty soon I could grow sick in here and die fast, know that could happen makes me happy.

Me and Tajjit stand there looking at Tayler, with a crazy look in his eyes, then he begins to calm himself as he gets up from his bed. He wipes the sweat from his face as he grabs a little piece of glass from under his bed, He begins to lift it to his neck.

“Whoa wait a minute what are you doing!?” I yell at him as he looks at me in confusion.

“Im shaving?” he looks at me as he begins to shave. Shaving with a piece of glass may be a bit painful and drafty. We stand there as we watch him shave and cut himself once or twice, he grabs a sheet from his bed to wipe his face. He takes off his shirt to reveal a tattoo of a symbol on his back, I don’t know what it means so I just stand there and watch him. He grabs a bottle of water off a shelf near his bed and walks up to the jail bars and rests his arms on it while drinking.

“So, how you been Ko, hows your mom and aunt?”

“Mothers fine, aunt Calla past away 3 years ago.” A surprise look went on his face but it disappears as he stares next to Tajjit.

“I remember you, you’re the one who I saw command all the soldiers at our village? You’re the general, um", he snaps his fingers a couple of times. 

". . . uh general Tajjit? Right?” Tajjit nods as Tayler laughs a bit. “Kodath, why you hanging around with a piece of shit person like him, do you know what he did to our village?”

“It’s not like that now Tayler, things have changed, I wish to tell you about it, the stone from the village and-” Tayler interrupts me.

“Oh I know all about the shrimstone, I met someone here, a special guy, looney bastard, but the crap he says is batshit insane. He knows everything about this energy stone and its power.”

Then Tajjit joins the conversation.

“Who told you this, state his name.”

Then a voice was heard from two jail cells down the hall. “...its wrong to think of it as an object, it could very much be much alive as we are...” We walk down the hall to reach the cell that we heard the voice from. We stare at a man who has an eye patch on, has burnt marks on his hands, and is as skinny as bones. Whoever he is must be someone who must be either crazy or evil.

“Mr. Shelbert?” says Tajjit as he leans down on the jail.

"Thats the loon.",  Shouts Tayler.

“Tajjit? Hey, it’s been some time now hasn’t it.” says Mr. Shelbert.

I ask Tajjit “You know this crazy person?”

“Crazy? This is Terry Shelbert, the nicest librarian in the city. Terry, why are you in jail?”

“For finding out the truth!” he gets up and looks through a bunch of books he has, excluding the fact he’s a librarian. “They try to hide these books but I managed to find them. I did some research on that shrimstone and its energy.” Then Tajjit looks at me.

“Terry used to be an expert on magic energy and aura usage, he was the one who taught Null everything.”

“I may have a theory about the stone and its crazy habits, I believe it is-” A soldier interrupts us.

“Sorry, 30 minutes is up, lets go.” We shrug as I tell Terry.

“We’ll come back soon!” as we walk down I turn back to see Tayler looking at me then shaking his head. He grabs the piece of glass and chucks it across the hallway.

“I believe Et’dra has a plan for this, talk to him and report back to me if you can!” says Terry as we walk up the stairs. Things are getting too hot now, we need to investigate on what was happening, and we’ll do what Terry says.

“We’ll go to Et’dra” I told Tajjit as he frowns but agrees to my decision.