The ground was ashen apart from the small bit of green around the village, people were walking around in what can only be called robes, and no one seemed in the slightest bit bothered that there was someone staring at them.

"You alright? You look as though you've seen a spirit." The man whose name he did not know asked him as he leaned forwards trying to see what had scared the strange and bemused boy.

"Where the hell am I?" He asked speaking slowly just to make sure they heard properly

"You know we've told you a million times, the village."

"How did I get here, I was in the woods now I'm in some village that looks like it's placed in the Sahara desert." People stopped to look at him, they had seen him when he was brought through and then they had thought him strange. This just confirmed it, Sahara desert? No one had heard of that.

"Uh Shun, what on this earth is the Sa-ha-ra desert?" Ber asked him as he stood beside him in the door-less door.

"You don' know what that is?" He took a deep breath to calm himself before he got mad, "Dan if this is a joke I'm going to kill you"

"Who's Dan?" They both asked him, they had never heard such a weird name.

Looking at the men he thought must be mental he decided to ask a question that must have been stupid but would give him some peace of mind to assure him that he wasn't absolutely crazy.

"What year is it?"

"Four hundred" stopping himself from shouting in surprise he asked another question.

"BC or AD?"

"What's that?" They asked him in unison.

"I'll take that as BC." Running his hands through his black hair he finally let himself show a little shock. "What the hell?! How the hell did I go back like two thousand years?! I don't even know how far I went back! This is stupid, I've gone mental! I must be in hospital, in a coma or something. This can't be right!"

The entire village was staring at him, eyes wide in shock. Had the boy been bitten by something? This wasn't something a sane person would be doing; he thought he came from the future.

A hand was placed on his shoulders, turning him to face the two boys.

"Shun? Are you ok, you look like you're going to be sick and I think you may have been out in the land too long, you might had gone slightly insane" as he was about to answer a woman's voice reached him, silencing the village who had been muttering to themselves as the boy's back was turned.

"Ber, Levi hush. Shun was it?" The voice asked as he turned to see who was talking. He saw a woman who didn't look too old, maybe mid-fifties. He stared at her a little stupidly for a moment. She was the oldest in the crowd of people.

"Yes, yes my name's Shun" he answered careful to not stutter.

"Well I'm glad to see you're awake, you had me worried when I saw you unconscious on the floor in the land where none bar me have ever been in and come out alive. Would you come with me please, I wish to make sure you're ok that you haven't sustained any permanent damage from your time out there." She turned to walk towards the largest mud house that was in the village, not looking over her shoulder to see if he was awake.

"But ma'am with all due respect, the boy is insane. He believes he's from the future" the boy he now knew was called Levi interjected.

"Yes I know, I did hear, and it is possible" her voice was smooth and though the three couldn't see her face she was smirking slightly, shocking the crowd all the more, if the elder thought that it must be true.

"M-m-m-ma'am" Levi finally managed to get out staring at the boy who was looking slightly more relaxed now, knowing he wasn't crazy, he stepped back slightly in shock. He was from a time that had not yet passed?

"Come Shun, we have much to talk about" with no other words to say and not having any other choice he followed the woman towards her home.

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