WAS IT THE RIGHT DECISION?
Elli did not know how long it had been since she was taken by these beings. It seemed to her like four days had passed. But, who would know, within this spaceship. All this seemed like a hallucination. That at least!
'' Annie is probably worried sick for me. She is trying to find excuses for not showing at work. ''
Her boss was not a bad person, but even he couldn't wait forever fo her to return to work. "I hope I could explain everything when I get back," she thought with optimism in her heart.
But, will I be able to get back? He was still in room and watched. Or he was making sure I wouldn't escape?
"What's your name?" She asked.
He did not answer her. ''You said I'll be yours. Whose? ''
'' Sinai. '' He replied.
"How long will you be here, Sinai?" She asked, afraid she won't make him angry.
"Well ... we have to finish the job?"
''What job?! Hunting? "She asked in fear of the answer.
"Maybe ... but not. '' Then he touched the engraved sign on his mask with his hand and went out.
Leaving outside, he took off one of the pendants that were on his ''dreadlocks''. It was different from the others. Made of blue crystal. Two symbols were engraved on it. For a while he was watching it.
Still in thoughts he headed to the bridge where the elderls were waiting for him.
''That's it'', she thought, ''now or never.'' This was her chance to come back. She was determined. She has to go back. Making sure he did not hear her, she walked out of the room.
She heard his footsteps moving away, and decided to follow him. She will slip into one of those capsules she saw flying, after he goes out to do what he said.
'' I have to hurry or I won't make it. ''
She heard their voices and sounds. They were talking, but in their weird language. They seem to be arranging final plans for their jurney to Earth.
Walking down the corridor, she noticed that heat was begining to grow inside. It was hot, but she didn't want to remove clothes. She will need all her clothes when she returns to Earth. It is winter now. Cold winter, after many years.
She past the room she first woke up. There was one of them laying down on that same table she did. He didn't move.
"Wounded, or dead?"
She did not want to stuck too long, and miss her chance. She walked further down the corridor. Their voices became stronger. She heard them ... and... Sinai. She was already accustomed to his voice, it wasn't unpleasant.
She dismissed these thoughts and continued to walk. Suddenly the steps stopped, she heard the sounds of metal and opening of some kind of doors.
'' I must be close. ''
She approached as much as she could to the sound source until she came to the enter of one big room. There were bones inside it. Bones of some kind of dragon. It looked like something you couldn't imagine in the worst nightmares. It had elongated black head, somewhat similar to crown. Then she saw several human skulls.
Scared like shit from the view, she left the room. Just the look at it had brought her nausea.
She found herself in the corridor near the opening from which sounds came out before. She came close to it, looked around herself, afraid to be caught, and leaned over to look.
There were lots of capsules in the room. Like the ones she saw going through the opening in the ceiling of the room. There were two others with Sinai. They were preparing for leaving. At least it seemd like that.
She was watching Sinai. He was pressing something on one of the capsules. He put his palm on a small metal circle on top of the capsule. The capsule opened, releasing sounds like hissing. He stepped into it and laid the palm on the inner part of the lid, on the same part of the capsule where it was a circle from the outside.
His capsule closed and after a few seconds he was released out through opening in the wall. The other two followed him, and then, Elli was all alone. "Will it react equally to my touch?" She wondered.
She came closer to one of the capsules. ''What if I don't succeed , if they catch me?'' She was afraid to even think about it.
"She will have to succeed!" She remembered her mother's words, she repeated them: "No problem is that big that we couldn't overcome it!"
Looking at the capsule she looked for a circle like the one Sinai pressed. This capsule was a bit different from his, but it had the same symbols on it. Her hands began to shake, she was frightened, from uncertainty.
Slowly she reached the circle on the top of the capsule and laid her palm on it. But nothing has happened. Cold sweat begun to form all over her body, her heart was betting like crazy.
''What now? How will I open it? '' She tried again, but nothing had happened.
"But, I did the same as Sinai did. It seems it reacts only to their touch, probably recognizing their skin.''
She decided to try again. If she fails, she will reconcile with her destiny. She will be forever captured.
Thinking of how Sinai laid his palm on the capsule, she put her palm on the circle and without noticing, lightly pressed it. Suddenly she heard the same hissing sound. Her capsule opened.
"Thank God!" She said with relief.
The space inside was enormous. Adjusted to the size of their bodies. Compared to them, she was like a child. "An adult child" she thought.
With anxiety, she went inside and gently pressed the same place where Sinai lay his palm. The capsule closed. Edges of the opening have disappeared, as if they weren't there at all. Like melting togeather. She closed her eyes and waited for capsule to go out.
'' I hope I will not end up on the opposite side of the world. ''
She put her hands on the capsules walls to help her stabilize her body during the flight. The interior was covered with metal, but was soft to the touch.
Suddenly she began to hover. Her capsule went to Earth. '' That's it, just a little bit at and I'll be home. I guess. ''
Her entry into the capsule didn't go unnoticed. On the large red screen in front one of the elders, capsule signal appeared. There was an unknown being inside it. The elder looked the one who stood behind him and then he growled: "Sinai!"
They quickly went to the room with the capsule to stop her, but it was already late.
Sinai had landed with a capsule on a small meadow near the city. Behind him were members of his clan, Ishe and Kiau.
On Sinai's metal hand buckler appeared message from elders: "Your trophy has escaped. If you do not want her dead, and return without honor, make sure you bring her back! "
Sinai was angry. In his own language, he growled: "Elli!"
He gave commands Ishe and Kiau to look for a third, missing member, Keishi. He was on a mission given to him by elders. He hasn't been answering for a while. His signal disappeared somewhere in the city.
Sinai has to do what his father ordered him before, and now, he has to return Elli too.
Elli.
Why did she have to do this? Perhaps he had misjudged her, maybe he was calling wrong creature all this time.
Ishe and Kiau pressed the tiny symbol on the lower part of their capsules and they seemed to have disappeared. As if there weren't there.
They were heading to the city.
Elli's capsule landed near the city within a small forest on the other side of town where Sinai and his clan members landed. She did not feel like hitting anything, she just stopped floating. She waited for a few moments and than she pressed her hand at the same place where she closed the capsule.
Her capsule opened. Elli was overwhelmed by the excitement she hadn't felt for long. She wondered where Sinai and the other two with him landed.
She looked around, but didn't see their capsules. '' Thank God! '' She thought.
Still, somehow, she hoped to see him.
This place was familiar to her. She started to walk toward the city lights that could be seen between the tree branches. Snow has already covered them.
Out there was cold. She missed the heat of the room in spaceship. She couldn't belive she would.
'' My apartment has already turned into an ice cubicle. '' She imagined it to be covered with frosting, and herself freezing in it. "It's really time to change my apartment.''
'' I have to go to Annie.''
She hoped nothing bad happened to her these days when she was gone. Apart from these creatures, the gangs were sometimes lurking in the city. Although, the part where she lived was mostly safe.
What will she do when she finds Annie, how will she hide from Sinai? Does she even want to hide from him?
"It's too late now", she thought.