I felt a lot better when I woke up, I could here some chatting going on from somewhere in the house, I went to the living room and found Farid and Nikky giggling together.
"…and then, she shouted, 'Nikky's high on fun dip again!'" Nikky was apparently telling a story about friends from her own world, Farid was cracking up, I smiled, I remembered having fun like that with my friends at school before I was read into the book.
"Hey," I said, they looked at me, both somehow extremely happy, just because they were in each others company, I guess that's how I feel around Doria, sometimes, I guess we both have to be in a good mood for that to happen though, and since this whole thing began, that has never really seemed to have happened.
"How are you?" Nikky asked, she looked a little remorseful, now recalling yesterday, but one glance at Farid and she brightened up again.
"I think I just needed to get some sleep, the past few days have been just completely draining," I said, I felt relieved after having slept off some of the stress. Mo walked in, the look on his face brought back the harsh "reality", if you can even call it that.
"Good morning," said Nikky brightly. Farid started playing with her hair, she giggled, they were completely in their own world.
"Well, its morning," said Mo, he had dark circles under his eyes and I wondered if he had gotten any sleep.
"Are you Ok?" I asked, I hoped he wouldn't worry himself sick.
"Do I look Ok to you?" He asked.
Sassy this morning are we? I stifled that comment, "did you think of anything?" I asked.
"No, I can't think of anything! How did these guns get here?" I don't think he was necessarily talking to me.
I went into the kitchen, my mother was wiping off the counters with one hand and holding Max with the other, "do you need some help?" I asked.
"No," she said, she seemed kind of mad, just as stressed as Mo and I were, "has anyone figured anything out yet?" she asked, focusing all her energy into vigorously wiping the counters, and balancing my tiny brother in the other, he was watching in amazement at the rag's quick movement on the slick surface of the counter.
"No," I said, I didn't really understand how any of this happened. I noticed some odd looking flowers in a basket, they seemed to have almost artificial looking colors, but very pale, and just small puffs of cottony looking blossoms, "where did those come from?" I asked.
"Oh, those are actually imported overseas, from some weird place I can never remember the name of," she said, admiring the peculiar flowers.
I noticed something though, other than the flowers, the basket looked as if it were woven by machine, I took a closer look, when I felt it I was very surprised, the wood was synthetic, it seems as though wherever this came from was a country that was more advanced in technology, I wondered how similar to my old "reality" it was. "You don't remember what the place is called?" I asked her, it was weird that a place like that could completely slip both our minds.
"No," she said, thinking hard, "you should ask Mo, see if he can remember."
So I went into the other room, Farid and Nikky had moved to the couch, still giggling and talking to each other, Mo was sitting by our oil lamp, on his chair, "hey, what was the name of that country just east of ours?" I asked, "Resa got a few flowers in a weird basket."
He thought about it for a second, "it's called Jezyria, it's surprisingly advanced for a country in this world, they have electricity, light bulbs, factories…" he stopped talking, and It seemed to hit him the same moment it hit me. "Oh," it was almost too low for me to here, "I will go tell the Prince," he got up abruptly and rushed out the door, I followed quickly; I didn't want to miss out on anything else.
We were running to the market place, the Black Prince was almost always there this time of day, surprisingly we ran into Doria, Mo didn't slow his pace at all, so I just gestured for Doria to come with us, he hesitated, but after about a second he was running alongside me, the same look on his face as he has always had recently, we had to figure this whole thing out soon.
Finally we reached the market, the Black Prince was admiring a red necklace, probably considering buying it for his new fiancé, Violante. We raced over to him, and Mo put his hand on the Prince's shoulder, he jumped in surprise. "There's something important I have to tell you," Mo said, just loud enough for the Black Prince to hear. It took a second, then his eyes widened, fully understanding just how important this news is.
We walked into a nearby alley so that we could speak privately, Doria looking as nervous as ever. "Ok, so what did you find out?" The Black Prince asked, an intense expression taking his face.
"The guns had to have come from Jezyria, it is the only possibility, they are so much more technologically advanced then us, I don't even know why none of us had considered it," Mo said quietly, as if someone might overhear.
"Oh," he became very thoughtful, after a few more seconds of us just watching for the Black Prince's reaction, he finally asked, "didn't you go there to sell your inventions, about a year ago, Doria?"
"Yes, I didn't really have that much success though, they already had so much technology, I didn't have anything that was better than all of their innovations," he said, and then he seemed to be taken aback by a bad memory.
"Then you will definitely be in the group going to Jezyria. I know a guy, so we should be able to get a cheap ship over there within a week, we just need to organize the group that is going."
"Oh, ok," Doria said, kind of surprised.
"Then who are the people that are going to be in the group?" Asked Mo, looking skeptical at this very quickly put together plan.
"We will figure that out later, right now, I need to buy that beautiful red necklace, Violante will love it!" the Black Prince exclaimed giddily, I stifled a giggle, he really did love Violante.