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Nasch and the other six walked down the dimly lit tunnel. They had been walking for half an hour.
"How much longer does this tunnel go on?" Gilag asked.
"How the hell should we know?" Misael retorted.
"Quiet down! Someone's coming." Merag hissed. The seven children ran behind a crystal.
"How could our calculations be wrong? They were supposed to wake up in three days. How could we have been off by so much?"
"It doesn't matter right now! We need to find them before they start to wander."
"Well, guess who came a little late for both of those things." Nasch walked out from behind the crystals followed by the other children. The two adult barians started and whirled to face the seven children.
"Bu-but Bordoc told you to stay near where you woke up!" exclaimed the barian with dark gray skin, brown hair, and black markings.
Vector spat on the floor "Renegade for life."
"Your life has consisted of 45 minutes!" Misael yelled.
"Calm down, young emper- I mean, children. We are two of the three elders. I am Mirach. My companion and fellow elder is Sadal." explained the barian with orange skin, yellow hair, and purple-blue markings.
"Yeah, yeah. Just answer our questions, who are the elders and what are barians?" asked Merag.
"Oh, my apologies. The name of our species is barian. The elders are the leaders of half of Barian World and we will be your caretakers, teachers, and guardians." Mirach calmly explained. "Now come along, we have a long journey ahead of us." he turned and beckoned for the children to follow him.
"Wait! Where are we going?" Nasch called.
"To the crimson fortress. It is our headquarters and will be your home. Now come along." Mirach replied and kept walking. The seven ran after him with Sadal bringing up the rear. They walked for a while until the tunnel ended and they walked out into the bright, red light. The children blinked in wonder. All around them was bathed in red glow. There were other colors too, but red was the most prominent one. Alit laughed and dragged the others down a hill. The seven tumbled down. All the children were laughing when they reached the bottom.
"All right. We can have some more fun later. We need to get farther along before nightfall. There's still a long journey ahead." Mirach reminded them. The seven brushed themselves off and climbed back up to follow Mirach.
…...
After a while, Alit posed a question.
"You said you were two of the three elders. Is Bordoc the third?"
Before Mirach could say anything Sadal laughed and said, "Oh, hell no! He is just a janitor. He was assigned to keep the tunnel clean so you wouldn't wake up to a messy cave." Mirach sighed at his companion's lack of tact.
Merag asked a question she had been stewing over for a while, "You keep saying that we 'woke up'. What happened before we emerged from the crystals? I don't remember anything."
The elders looked at each other. "It-it's just an expression. Nothing happened before. You were born inside the baria crystal and emerged when you were old enough to form a coherent thought and move around without help. In short, avoid babyhood." Mirach explained. They dropped the subject and walked in silence for a while. Finally, Dumon broke the silence with another question.
"You said you ruled half of Barian World. Who rules the other half?"
Sadal made a noise of disgust. "King Furad. Dictator more like it. He is a terrible ruler. Knows nothing about managing things and just lounges around self indulging himself. We'd overthrow him but he has a powerful army and is a remarkable fighter himself. But that will change soon-" Mirach muffled Sadal before he said anything more.
"Here's a good spot to spend the night. If we get up early tomorrow, we can make it to the fortress by sunset. But for now let's get some sleep." Mirach hustled the little barians under a crystal overhang while he and Sadal slept next to a large crystal tree. The children attempted to fall asleep for the first time in their lives. They soon were fast asleep, dreaming about knights, kings, princesses, samurai, gladiators, and dragons.
