Chapter 29

Alex just lied there, eyes closed. He decided that what had just happened must have been a dream. It was too weird to be anything else. He opened his eyes and tried to sit up, but couldn't. Chill continued to hold him in a death grip, the same one as before, snoring away.

'Now what' he thought. The only limbs he could move were his legs, which did him little good. He exhaled, trying to think of what he could do. Then, it hit him.

"Robots, come here" he called.

There was a rustling of paper, followed by metallic footsteps. The robots appeared.

"How far are you at analysing the library?" He asked

"Twenty seven percent, my liege" it replied.

'Is that all' he thought 'the amount of knowledge must be huge'.

"Please remove Chills arm from me" he commanded.

The robots grabbed the arm and pulled. The metal on its arms strained as the arm refused to move. After a few more seconds, the robots stopped.

"Impossible. Chance of success zero percent. What is our next course of action?" One of them asked

"What?! Ugh, fine go back and finish analysing the knowledge. Don't stop until completed or if I give other orders" Alex stated.

The robots turned around and left. 'Looks like I'm stuck for a while. She sure is strong. Or the robots are weak' he thought.

He turned his head, to face her. Mistake number one; the fish stench hit him immediately. He quickly turned his head to the opposite side. Mistake number two; his neck cricked. The pain hit him like a brick wall. He screamed silently. He shuddered as he moved his head back. Mistake number three; it was just enough movement to disturb Chill from her slumber. She moved her hand on top of his neck. Fear rushed through him. She could easily kill him in her sleep.

However, this freed his arms. He quickly tapped her on the shoulder. She woke up slowly, removing her arm. He took in a large gasp of air.

"What's up with you?" She asked

"You" he said, still gasping for air "you nearly... Killed me in your... Sleep".

"You probably provoked me. You could always sleep on the floor" she yawned back.

"But I won the bed, remember" Alex responded.

"And you invited me up. As the host of this little sleep over, you should sleep on the floor" she retorted.

"But.. I... You can't..." He stuttered.

"No buts, it's the polite thing to do" she said calmly.

She got out of bed and headed to the bathroom to get dressed.

"No peaking" she teased.

"Don't flatter yourself" he retorted back.

She slammed the door behind her. Alex then got out of bed, gathering his clothes, ready for another day of portal master training.

Authors note

Day 2 of uploads (WOOOO).

Interesting fact: this chapter had the most spelling errors out of any chapter of this story, despite it being less than half the length of some other chapters. It was a nightmare to proofread it and, to be honest, I still feel like there is going to be at least one error I didn't catch.

- Captain Diomedes

/Authors note