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[Redford's POV]

Everyone was quite unexpected while it happened. I had noticed that Nea had quite a dark side to her, and Scarlett could get really shocked and not know what to do. I did not expect Marius to betray everyone, just to get all the Diamonds. He was becoming like Pitcher - wanting the Diamonds so bad.

I just couldn't believe it when Nea said she had a 'plan' when Marius was starting to leave. It didn't seem like a good one, but apparently it worked quite effectively. I thought of Nea as those kind of people who was neutral at everything, but now I knew she could be quite unnerving too.

As I felt the Diamonds in my fingers, I thought about Marius. What could he be doing now? It wasn't like I wanted him to get the Diamonds, though. I was actually happy that his hard work didn't pay off - just because he was too careless. He had missed out on the dream.

In the dream, someone had warned us that bringing two or more Diamonds together cancels out both powers, unless all the Diamonds are together, then a great power - one that would change the world - would be unleashed.

Those Diamonds we were trying to find now were those that was stated in the dream. It was slightly exciting to anticipate this 'great power' that would change the world, bit I just hoped that in the 'new world', people would realise every consequence that came with action and think their choices again.

"We'll have to be faster than him," Nea said. "We have to skip the dreams this time. Now, he would already be searching for the Diamond of Light."

"How about," Scarlett said, "We just take a little rest first. Think of what we should do. Then, we get the third, and then the fourth, et cetera."

"Isn't light what we see every day? It could be anywhere. Where do we even look first?" I asked.

"We don't have to find it when there's light everywhere, you know. We can do it in the night," Nea said.

"But there'll be those zombie-things. And I'm quite sure that we don't want them on our heels every time," Scarlett said.

That was true. The last time we had incidences with the zombies - we were so close to death. And now Nea was trying to make us find the third Diamond in the middle of the night? She was so impossible.

"Yeah. Doing it in the night is completely insane," I agreed.

"We should find it now," I decided on the spot after no one said anything. "We go somewhere dark, and basically it would shine."

"So where can we find 'somewhere dark'? Most of the buildings here are kinda smashed, if you didn't notice."

"We go to that one," I pointed at a building where its lower levels were quite intact and had no windows.

"Oh, it must be quite dark in there," Nea stated as she noticed it. "Let's go then."

In the building, it was nothing I had expected.

There were steps everywhere, and it was hard to navigate. And, it was darker than I had thought. No light seeped into it through and cracks, and it was deathly silent, like the building itself was holding its breath.

Our steps resonated everywhere, and every stairwell we encountered echoed any sounds we made, giving it a ghostly atmosphere.

"Where are we supposed to find light?" asked Nea in the darkness.

A scratching sound. Scarlett struck a match. The fire glowed brightly as it cast shadows on the wall. There were carvings, like an ancient Egyptian tomb.

"Come on!" Scarlett said as she led us down the stairs. We came to a stone door carved into the wall, but it was glowing strangely in the dark.

"Oh, come on, for all you know it could be those ancient kings' tombs and their ghosts would haunt us," I said, but I wasn't excited to leave. It felt somehow - comfortable - in this place. Deep down underground, I felt close to home.

Even better, I felt my senses were sharper. More awake, despite the little rest we had. I could actually sense the Diamond of Light, and its power was strong. And I could tell that the diamond was behind the stone door.

"How do we open this? There's no keyhole or anything," Scarlett said.

"Can you see this?" Nea said as she ran her finger along the bumps and cracks, where the light was emitting from.

Around it, in a circle, was scribbles. I had not read anything since I entered the Glade, and I only knew that I had dyslexia. The words overlapped and swam around each other. It made something that was totally foreign, not English, but I found that I could understand it.

It was Ancient Greek, carved into the stone. Somehow I knew it read 'the keyhole is on the left'. I felt it. Yes, there was a hole, big enough to put one of those old-fashioned keys into. But we didn't have any key.

Nea seemed to realise this too, and scratched her head on what we should do.

"How do those ancient keys work?"

"They lift a latch in the door. Do you have any wire?"

I brought out some twist-tie wire.

"That works too," she said.

"Wait, you mean we're gonna pick that lock?"

"Well, technically yes." She folded the wire into the shape of an old key and inserted it into the keyhole. She jolted the latch a few times, but it didn't open.

Then, she twisted the wire and tried again, and this time a click was heard from the door, and we could easily push it in.

The Diamond was lying on a white marble dais. Even I was surprised how it would have been kept in such a good condition. All of us hesitated to take the Diamond, like we would be cursed when we took it.

"I guess we'll just have to take it?" Nea straightened her hand and took the Diamond in her fingers. Bright light filtered through between her fingers from within. But there was no time to admire it.

The cave was starting to shake, dust falling from the ceiling.

I looked up. "What did you just do?" I asked as I saw cracks spreading across the ceiling. Startled, I started running towards the door, like what Nea and Scarlett did. But I noticed everything.

Nea followed right after me and slipped out of the door just in time, but Scarlett wasn't so lucky. The door slid shut right after Nea went out, and Scarlett's fearful shouts of "No stop!" were diminished into silence.

Oops! I think we just lost Scarlett-