Chapter 4
Limbo Entrance
I slid though the crack. It was as if I was being swallowed by a beast. I hit the ground with a rather painful thud followed by swearing. I stood up and brushed myself off looking at the dead, and in some places petrified, woods around me. The woods seemed to go on for quite a while. Akon walked casually though the door to this side. I glared at him.
"Now, now. You should save that anger for when you really need it." He smiled snapping his fingers and undoing the lock on the cuffs. I rubbed my wrist.
"How did you put on and take off the cuffs without uttering a word? You suck at incantations."
"It's another project I've been working on. Perfected it about six months ago right before the medical center got its first soulless. It deals with sound, machines, and our spirit energy." He explained turning over his wrist revealing a small piece of metal embedded into the skin. "A simple snap and this activates the chain embedded in me and attaches to the nearest spiritual energy available. Quite handy if I do say so myself."
"What's to stop me from walking right back though that hole in the wall?" I spat.
"Oh, go ahead and try to walk back though." He grinned. I looked at him long and hard before sprinting to the crack in the dimension. I jumped and fully expected Akon to stop me, but he didn't. Then I hit it hard. The crack thrust me back with an agonizing jolt of electricity. As I moaned in pain on the ground Akon laughed.
"Did you seriously think you could get though by charging at it?" He opened his shirt to reveal a tattoo I was familiar with from all the times at the bathhouse. "This tattoo is more than just a cool design my friend. It's a spell placed on me by my superior. It allows me to examine the edge and if needed can close cracks. However, I figured out how to make it open cracks too. Sadly, it can't make a crack…yet." I nursed my bruised ribs.
"In other words I'm stuck on this side until you deem fit." I groaned.
"Bingo. Even if you are a success and leave you will return. You'll need me and have to forgive me out of necessity." He smiled.
"I highly doubt that." I spat as he started walking.
"Come along. You don't want to stay out in the open for long here. Trust me on that fact."
I painfully sighed and followed. I didn't want to be caught off guard in a strange land. My only option was to follow the rabid rabbit though this dead wonderland.
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