Rocky road, dry trees, no trace of grass, it looked horrible, that place seemed deserted.

We kept walking, I didn't want a beautiful place, I just wanted to find civilization, nothing mattered anymore I guess.

"And this... um...eeeeemmm"

The communication skills of the moment were not exactly pleasant, he did not seem to care at all, agh, how many times have I said that?

"We're here."

He told me while the horizon looked like annnnnn... castle? It looked like it but it had a somewhat chaotic design, and just as my helmets had holes everywhere, it seems to be the most popular architectural design in this kingdom perhaps.

"Very well, we arrived, and now what do we do."

He raised his helmet pointing to the main gate guarded by 2 guards.

"You just have to pass security and we would be inside the hive."

She looked deferential, more relieved, maybe she was afraid to be outside and that's why she was so tense... maybe.

"I think that for my part it's everything, I helped you find the hive, I helped you transform and take away your amnesia, you're alone now."

Wow… any minute she was alone again.

"o... ok."

She just walked away, but now that she had found a civilization now it would be easy to find information about this new place.

"Hey, come here for a minute."

I turned around and it was a guard who expected me to go with him, in any situation I would have run, but I couldn't, I was in the lion's den right now, I had nowhere to run, so I had to just obey.

"Your appearance is not familiar to me, I don't remember seeing you before, you still have your long hair, do you know how many rules you are breaking for not being shaved and for having been out of the hive for so long? They could accuse you of treason."

"Excuse me, I'm really sorry, but I was only absent a few days, I don't think it's that bad, or do they restrict us from leaving these four... walls?"

"I will not comment on this, you will have to tell our queen, but for now you are accused of treason."

"Hey wait, I don't betray anyone, I think I have the right to go out when I please."

"yes yes yes, walk, you have an appointment with the queen."

The guard began to push me roughly to the queen's throne, they wanted to judge me for having come from abroad, I guess my long hair made them understand that I had been longer than I said I had been outside, maybe they think I deserted and came back sorry, But now, how do I explain that I am not from this place? How do I explain that this is not my body? How do I explain that I got here thanks to a "portal?"

Honestly, it is the most interesting tour that I have ever been given, every inch I saw was something completely new for me, I had almost forgotten that they were taking me to an interrogation.

"My Queen, I have brought a suspect with a charge of alleged treason."

Is that the queen?, She, she's taller than the adult changelings, I'm smaller than the adults but she's twice as big.

"Wow little one, so betrayal huh?"

"Good afternoon Queen, I just want to say that this is a mistake, if I come from abroad, but I promise that I am not dangerous, I am only 12 years old, you cannot do this to a minor."

"minor?, yes of course, we know our camouflage capabilities, and you emanate a more powerful magic than that of a simple 12-year-old brat."

Different magic? Perhaps the magic that I possess from my home makes them believe that my magic is that of an adult, and that I disguise myself as a child so that they would have mercy on me, in a civilization in which everyone can become what they are. whatever and whoever it is must be an environment where no one can trust anyone, but I can't help it, the magic I possess may be changeling, but I still retain the magic of chaos, but in my current state, I don't have the little idea how to use it.

"You can't trick a changeling with camouflage, only a fool would do that, you can take off your disguise, it's no longer useful to you, guard, to the dungeon, you know what to do."

"Hey wait!, this is not fair!, if I am 12 years old!, this interrogation was limited to unfair assumptions!, it did not last what it should last, this is not justice, it is tyranny!"

They were dragging me, the damn interrogation lasted 2 minutes, enough time for a tyrant to kill whoever he wants just because yes, I didn't have a word, he just limited himself to imprisoning me.

I struggled with the guard to get him to release me but it was useless, he started dragging me all over the damn kingdom, until we reached some stairs that seemed to lead to a basement... of course, the queen said dungeon... perfect... .

The place was neglected, puddles of water (I hope) on the floor, there were bad smells, the walls were dirty... I can't stop thinking about the characteristic smell of Mexico City, it was similar, since this place was the same of contamination.

"Hey, stop resisting, or else I'll apply force!"

"Would you hit a child?!"

"You are not a damn impostor child!"

I have to admit, that was one of the strongest blows I've ever received in my life, and I've already suffered stab wounds in the past, the blow was strong enough to leave me unconscious, definitely... my magic still hasn't it came back completely.

"..."

"Wha...what...what happened? Where am I?"

"You're in the brat dungeon."

"Auh, my head still rumbles, you're a... recluse?"

"yeah, your cellmate to be more precise, I hope you get comfortable, because you will spend a long time here."

"... how much to be precise?"

"Probably forever."

"... hehe, yes, of course, about my corpse, I don't know about you, but I'll find a way out."

It seems that the prisoners also have long hair, it only makes me understand one thing, what the queen dictates will be what will be done or you will be punished, tyranny in the whole word, the prisoners are only abandoned and excluded from the rules of the outside , allowing them to have long hair, but at the expense of their freedom, now the depressing view of that girl who helped me makes sense.

"Definitely, you're an idiot, you know that's not possible right.

Also, detransform, you're not 12 years old according to what the guards said when they left you unconscious in this cell."

Well, I would if it were true.

"I know that the cruelty of the changelings can have no limit, but imprisoning a 12-year-old child seems excessive to me."

"If I wasn't 12 years old, do you think I would keep hiding it while I'm already locked up here?"

"... well, the queen has hit rock bottom, I guess."

I think I can see from his eyes and the way he talks that this guy has dealt with the tyranny of the queen several times.

"Well, don't go unpunished, what did you do?"

"You know, theft, disturbing the public peace, that kind of thing."

"So a nobody right?"

At this point he was already a bit disinterested, he was just a petty thief, but they say, don't judge a book by its cover.

"And tell me brat, how do you plan to escape from here exactly?"

"I'll manage, I don't plan to stay here forever, I have to go home."

"Child... your house is the hive, all the changelings live here, does that mean you adopted another place as your home?"

"Not precisely."

"This kid doesn't know what he would have gotten himself into if I were an aggressive inmate." (Thought)

"Child, if you know how dangerous it is to insult an inmate and more so if you are a 12-year-old boy, right?"

I stared at him, and from his expression I think I gave him to understand that he wasn't a normal brat.

"You are definitely not normal, you have ambition and commitment to your goals...

You know something boy, I'm not a nobody, and I'm here for espionage, if you want to know what the hive is like and how you can get out of here... I'm the one."

Perfect, a door opens before me.

"Perfect, what to do?"

"For now, wait 3 hours, in that time I will tell you everything, and in 5 hours we will be out of the hive."