Tulio, Linda and Fernando have already checked into their hotel room. They managed to order a rather large room, which was quietly enough to satisfy their minimum needs. The price didn't matter, so they didn't really care that they rented one of the more expensive rooms in a 5-star hotel. In the evening, at 10pm, they officially booked a room and then went upstairs. The rest of the time they spent in the room unpacking their suitcases with clothes and other accessories. The rest of the time was spent on checking where the street where they were supposed to meet was.
"It is not far from here. There will be no problem to get there...the question of whether it is worth it", said Tulio when he checked the location of the street "Eixample".
"I did not come here for nothing. I think Fernando did too. We have to go there. And if this gentleman was just a fraud, we'll find Blu and Jewel on our own," said Linda. Fernando only modestly confirmed by the movement of his head. Tulio still sighed a little bit on the ceiling, because he knew that Linda wouldn't convince with any tricks, and he could not count on Fernando.
The man stood up (sitting on a leather couch) and opened the balcony door. When he had done that, he went out onto the balcony to most probably take some fresh air.
"Quite a nice view" said Tulio in his mind when he looked around the city from the balcony. Although it was only a 4th floor or even a 4th floor, one could see a fragment of the city. It was even cold, but it didn't bother the man at the moment. He stood still and waited until finally someone called him. Nobody called him, but he felt the touch on his shoulder. He knew it was Linda.
"Put on a sweatshirt, it's cold," said Tulio immediately, but Linda didn't seem to hear it.
"You don't want to go, do you?" She asked him a moment later.
"Why do you believe for a beggar? I don't even know him," answered Tulio with a little surprise.
"Do you think this is easy for me, too? I would also like to be at home with Blu. And I am... In Europe...we have to get them back now, no matter what," replied Linda briefly and very confidently. The next moment also passed quickly. Both adults came back from the balcony because they both felt the cold that prevailed in the streets of the city. They put on sweatshirts and drank warm tea before going out to the meeting. They sat on a leather couch and managed to talk for a few minutes, but the topics were only about Blu and Jewel. Soon the clock showed an hour of 11:30pm.
"I think we can go out," said Linda when she got up. Tulio burke something under his nose and then followed Linda to the hanger to take his jacket, just in case. A moment later they were ready to leave. They closed their temporary room and went down the elevator.
Meanwhile, Blu and Jewel were in their "second home". Such a description can be given, because Jewel started to get used to this room. This time Jewel got up first. The first thing she saw was the figure of Blu, which was lying on metal pipes as if without life. Jewel didn't want to wake him up, so she decided to leave the cage to find some food. But before she started looking for food, she went to a nearby pond to drink. From the time she got a sleeping injection she started to have migraine attacks. She took several sips of water, and sprayed it on her face, to stimulate her. She immediately felt better.
"Now let's find food" was Jewel's decision when she went up in the air to see any fruit. At the same time the injection stopped working for Blu as well. He gained consciousness for the second time, but this time much faster than in the office.
"Je..." He was mumbling, not yet fully conscious. When he was half-conscious he realized that Jewel wasn't there next to him. He got up slowly from the cage and looking around with his not yet sharp eyes he tried to track it. But he didn't see her anywhere around him. He didn't expect her to be sent alone somewhere, so he guessed that Jewel had just managed to get food. Blu also came out of the cage and, like Jewel, went towards a small pond. Only opposite to Jewel, Blu was there but he didn't drink anything. Blu just sat down and he realized that if they stayed here... They won't live long.
"We have to get out of here," thought Blu. He lay down on his back and closed his eyes, because like Jewel he had a migraine. While lying down, he wondered if there was any way to leave the room. After all, there must be some other way out, or something like that. Some kind of emergency exit.
During these worries Blu heard the flutter of wings - he guessed it was Jewel. He got up from his back and opened his eyes.
"Good morning, darling," said Jewel kissing Blu on the cheek. She gave him 2 mangoes. She also took 2.
"Not so good..." Blu answered by sitting over the fruit, not touching it at all.
"Something's wrong?" Asked Jewel.
"It so happened that I had regained consciousness even before we were transferred. In 4 days or a week we're going to be subjected to some kind of experimentation," said Blu, a little nervous.
"Perhaps you misheard or misunderstood," said Jewel calmly. Blu was surprised. Why is she defending this place?
"Why are you defending this place? I'm explaining to you that in four days you're going to die and you're telling me that I misunderstood?" Said the upset Blu. He got up from the ground because he was very upset. Jewel didn't answer. She thought it would be a better move to give up for Blu to complain.
"I'm sorry... " a moment later he added more calmly when he sat down on the ground. Jewel cast a modest glance at him. She didn't answer for a moment, because she was eating her food. When she had finished, she started explaining herself.
"Blu, it's not that the weapons... But you thought where we'd end up later? We'll run away from here, but then where will we go? We have no place to go and no one to take us..." said Jewel.
"We can go back to Brazil..." Blu answered.
"You said yourself it's a hell of a long way, so how do you want to get there?" Asked Jewel.
"Um... Well... Ekh... Well... Well, there must be a way out! You're not going to do anything with that kind of thinking, you're just going to make things worse..." answered Blu. As you can see, he didn't want to eat, because he didn't take even the slightest bit of mango all this time. Jewel has already eaten two fruits. Since then, they did not speak to each other, they exchanged only looks that did not mean much. It got a little colder than a couple of minutes earlier. Surprisingly, a few moments later it started to rain...
Many thanks to RiodanJaneiro97 for his help in writing the chapter! To the next chapter!