The three of us left the alley and started walking. We arrived at a bar, which we entered. Saya immediately asked the bartender where we can find a two-way radio, and he told us there is one at the back. He pointed us toward what looked like a small booth, where there was one huge box with dials, with an antenna and microphone attached to it. Saya looked at the card that Lehnsherr gave us earlier, and started dialing.
"You know how to work this?" Merlin questioned.
"In my world, this was as high-tech as they could get." Saya replied.
Merlin nodded understanding this, while Saya kept turning the dials. Eventually, the machine stopped making white noise, and she raised the microphone to her mouth, "Lehnsherr, this is Saya. Can you hear me? Over."
"Well, I didn't expect you'd contact me so soon. Over." Lehnsherr's voice sounded.
That was quick, I thought to myself. A little too quick. Was Lehnsherr sitting at his radio this whole time, waiting for us to call him? Or are radios so advanced here that they can be carried around, like phones in my world?
"Why do you say over?" Merlin asked.
Saya ignored him, "We just wanted to know, where do they make these telepods? Over."
"What an incredible coincidence." was his reply, "I was just on my way to where they are build. Over."
"You mean they're being build in this city?" this surprised Saya so much, it took her a few seconds before she added "Over."
"Of course they are." Lehnsherr replied, "But why won't we meet first. So I can tell you all about it. Let's say... we meet again at that building where we first met? Over."
"Good enough for me." Saya replied, "Over and out."
She switched it off and started toward the door. Merlin had opened his mouth at the same time, but he didn't say anything, as he probably realized she wouldn't talk back anyway. I followed her out of the bar, and Merlin did too. Eventually.

"What's wrong?" Merlin asked her when all three of us were outside, "He agreed to meet with us."
"A little too easily, if you ask me." Saya replied. "In fact, the entire conversation was weird."
"How?" Merlin couldn't understand it.
Saya, for once, turned around to look straight at Merlin, as she explained, "He was too quick to answer our call. He sounded like he was answering at a crowded space..."
Did he, I asked myself. I noticed some noise, but I thought it was just the machine crackling a bit.
"... which tells me he was talking from a public place, not his own personal radio." Saya continued, "And on top of that, in a world where these telepods are the only means of long-distance transport, why would he be so willing to let strangers inside the very building that they are made?"
"Why do you keep looking for reasons to distrust him?" Merlin asked her.
"Because I'm not a simpleton like you." Saya had really lost patience with him that time, judging from what she just called him.
"Simpleton?" Merlin questioned, "You can't see the good in people."
"And you don't want to see the bad!" Saya retorted.
This was going nowhere. I could try to take Saya's sword again, but I had no guarantee that she'd hold back this time. The only thing that I could think of doing was to walk away from them, see if that'll get their attention. I shuffled for a few inches, eventually taking actual sideway steps so I could still watch them as I walked away. They didn't even notice I was leaving them, that was how heated their discussion was. At long last, I decided to give up, and just walk away, without looking back.

As I strolled through the streets, I began to wonder what I was doing. Without them, I'd be alone in a world that is practically run by one scary woman. One woman, of whom I can still vividly remember what she had done to me. Ok, it wasn't this woman, technically speaking. As Murphy explained it, she was just a copy of the same model. So it's not the same woman, but she looked exactly the same, and both are working for Smith's Army, so I might as well think it's the same one, so I reasoned. The one I met was about to take me to some kind of higher-up person, who I never got to see, and this person would decide what to do with me. I can still remember that look she had on her face when I tried to escape her clutches. She looked like a raging beast, who was ready to kill me if I wouldn't stop fighting back. I was lucky that some man in a tuxedo and a mask rescued me from her. Remembering all that, I realized the mistake I had made in leaving Saya and Merlin alone. I needed help to survive her by herself, and here I was in a world where a woman that looks like her was commanding an army. I didn't want to be alone in this world, and Saya and Merlin knew that I shouldn't be left on my own. I started hoping that they realized soon enough (if at all) that I was gone, and that their first thought would be to look for me there where we were supposed to go. Which was near that building where we first met Lehnsherr. As I was going, I wondered why these two kept arguing. Sure, I had seen them do this before, even back in Narnia. But even before I met them, they seemed to have gone through some things together, so you'd think they'd have learned to appreciate their different viewpoints. I sighed, as I was suddenly beginning to undestand why Smith was doing the things he was doing. He had discovered an entire multiverse where people in many different shapes and sizes exist, each with their own ideas and opinions. Thoughts that would clash with each other more often than not. If everyone were under the control of one mind, then maybe these two would stop... my thoughts got interrupted as something pressed itself against my mouth. It was a gloved hand, holding a handkerchief. I felt another hand holding itself against the back of my head. It was such a tight grip, I tried fighting against it. As I did, I took several deep breaths. But as I breathed, I felt myself getting weaker. I vaguely remember wondering what that smell was, before I could see, hear, or smell nothing at all anymore...