Nothing...
There is nothing...
Just black...
Nothing...
No dream.
Selvia didn't dream this time.
After she got knocked out, for a moment, she saw nothing. Heard nothing. Felt nothing.
Only for a moment, though. After the moment was over, she started to come back to her senses. A few senses at a time. Vision, hearing, feeling.
She first saw a light. The same pale green light she has seen before, except more ominous. She then heard. Soft voices. Selvia was coming back from the unconsious state. Feeling. She felt she was on a ground. She felt a strange feeling, like something odd in the air. Something dangerous.
Selvia finally opens her eyes. She was laying flat on her back on a ground. She then looks around, checking out her surroundings. Too surreal, very ominous. She doesn't see anyone. Selvia then focuses on what she hears.
Talking.
Selvia trys moving, but was only able to move her head. She moves her head towards the voices and finds Infinite and Hodlin talking. Hodlin looked very worried and concerned, looking all around as if anything could pop out to attack. Infinite was trying to calm him down and tell him about the area. Allimir was still knocked out, laying on the ground in front of Infinite.
"We will be fine here. We just need to venture further in this realm to find what we need," says Infinite.
"But where are we? Are you sure we will be fine? I feel... Afraid..." Hodlin says.
"Do not worry," Infinite places her hand on his arm, which makes him blush a little, "If we stick together, we will surely be fine. And as for the location of where we are, we are just in a realm in Oblivion. Once we are done here, we will be out of here quick."
Hodlin continues to look around nervously, then saw Selvia looking at them. Infinite followed his gaze, and then went to approach her. Once she has went up to her, she knelt to the ground.
"Took you a little longer than expected to wake up, but don't worry, it's ok."
Selvia, looking around a bit, "Where are we? Why are we here? Why can't I move?"
"You are in Apocrypha. There is endless knowledge here to our advantege. I don't know why you cannot move. Maybe you will get more feeling in a bit. Once everyone is up and moving, we will start on our way to find more knowledge about that one item and it's whereabouts."
Selvia then looks at Allimir, still on the ground unconsious, "Will Allimir wake?"
Infinite turns her head to look at Allimir, "Soon. I don't want to linger here for very long," she turns towards Selvia again, "So if you are up and moving before he even wakes up, we may just have to carry him. I did hit him pretty hard."
Infinite, standing up, looks around, as if to keep watch of the place. "I don't want to linger here for very long."
She then turns around to talk to Hodlin, who was now sitting on the ground next to Allimir.
After a bit, Selvia was able to slowly get off the ground. She first felt much pain, but it went away the further she tried standing up. Once she fully stood up, she tried to walk. A little clumsy, mostly due to a little pain, but she then was able to function correctly. Infinite notices Selvia's advancements, look towards Allimir, whom was stirring very slightly, came to a conclusion.
"Alright, Hodlin, please carry Allimir again. It won't be long before he wakes, but I don't want to linger here for very long," she looks towards Selvia, "Let's go, and be ready to defend ourselves. We will be fine, but you can never know what to expect in this place."
Infinite strides down a pathway, a narrow bridge that lays over the vast dark green sea of whatever it may be. Hodlin follows, carrying Allimir in his arms. Selvia follows closely behind.
She has been saying "I don't want to linger here for very long" a lot...
As Selvia had thought this, she sees towers of books. Books, books, and books are everywhere.
Knowledge. Endless supply of knowledge.
A few minutes go by, and Allimir starts waking up some. A few more minutes, and he is already requesting that he walks by himself.
Once he starts walking, he never spoke. He looked angry. Very mad. A bruise lays across the bridge of his nose. He kept his eyes trained ahead, only looking around at either his surroundings or at Infinite, as if he is staring daggers at her back.
An hour or two of walking, and they come up to an empty podium. Infinite, standing directly behind the podium, closes her eyes and concentrates. She then spoke.
"I need a minute or two to myself."
Allimir, already mad and is now even more annoyed, "For what reason?"
"Because only I should talk to Hermaeus Mora. Less contact you have with him, the better things go smoothly."
"So why are we here in the first place? You could have came by yourself!"
"We needed to be here together so if this goes according to plan, we would all be transported to a different place. I didn't want to be transported all by myself, knowing you'd wouldn't want that as well."
Allimir, clearly frustrated, turns around and stomps off. Hodlin follows. Selvia, confused, stayed still.
Without even turning or opening her eyes, Infinite still speaks, "Selvia, I don't want to linger here for very long. Go with them and wait for me. Please."
Hesitantly, Selvia turns to leave. The guys were a good distance away. Selvia could see that Allimir was ranting to Hodlin, probably about the whole situation. After a moment of walking towards them, Selvia turns around for a quick look back.
It was like nothing she has ever seen before. An odd thing in the sky. Something that could fill anyone with fear, except that Infinite didn't look afraid. Dark green, black tenticals, eyes of different sizes everywhere, a large on in the middle of the mass. From where Selvia was, she can't hear what Infinite was saying to it, but Selvia could slightly hear the voice of whatever it was in the sky. It was very low, ominous.
Selvia just stared at it, then the voices of Allimir and Hodlin brought her back to her senses.
"All of this is just stupid."
Selvia turns around again to see Allimir still ranting, but he has calmed down some.
"We will be out of here quick, Infinite said," Hodlin said.
Allimir, distressed, just sat on the ground, "I want to say that agreeing to work with her is a mistake."
"That sounds like you are saying that it isn't a mistake to have her with us," Hodlin says as he sits down next to Allimir.
"Unfortunately, I do not think there is any other way we can advance if it wasn't for her."
Hodlin, looking at the ground, "Do you... Like her?"
Allimir quickly looks up at Hodlin with a confused expression. "Why would I be?"
"Sometimes, if you don't get along with someone, it turns into a greater relationship in the future."
Allimir just scoffs, "Here is the thing about why we 'don't get along': It's because we are too much alike. If you have to spend time with an exact replica of you, one might think it would turn out great, but you would actually hate it. You argue, fight, and soon enough not want to be around that person anymore. Now, Infinite and I are alike. We think alike, have the same ideas, but we think different enough that just gets on each other's nerves. I would never agree to come to this place, but in the back of my mind, I didn't have any other idea or plan on how we continue on our quest."
Hodlin, who quietly listened, spoke, "I see. I think you shouldn't argue with her as much as you have been lately. Sometimes you know better and other days she knows better. You should work together, see what happens."
"Do you think this will work?"
Allimir and Hodlin looked up at Selvia, who just said that. "Do we think what will work?" Allimir asked.
"This plan. Being here. Talking to..." Selvia looks behind her at the Daedra, then looks back at them, "...that."
Allimir thought about it for a moment. "We will just have to wait and see. Right now, we got to put more trust in Infinite than before. She got us in this mess, and she will take us out of it."
"For now, we wait." Hodlin says.
Selvia just nodded and sat on the ground with the guys.
After a long while of the group talking to each other and Infinite talking to the Daedra, Infinite finally approaches them, looking very exhausted.
"I finally learned the locaction of the Sahrot," She closes her eyes, and for a moment the group thought she might have accidentally fell asleep standing up, but then she opens her eyes again, "Hermaeus Mora will teleport us there."
"If he is going to teleport us there, then what is the use of learning the location?" Allimir asks.
"I know the name and how to navigate in it. It is some dwarven ruin, like we had guessed. It would have been difficult for us to try to get to it, so he is going to get us there."
"What took a while when talking with him?" Hodlin asked.
Infinite closes her eyes, and after a moment, opens them again, "You pay for knowledge with knowledge."
Allimir narrowed his eyes at her, "And what knowledge did you give him?"
Infinite just looks at him, exhausted as ever, "Don't worry about it. We need to approach the podium to get to the dwarven ruins." With that, she turns around and walks back towards the Daedra that remained in the sky.
Hodlin looked nervously at the rest of the group, then quickly followed behind Infinite. Allimir and Selvia both looked at each other, then walked together to the podium.
Hermaeus Mora, the Daedra in the air, watched each and every one of them as they approached. When the group all got together in front of the podium, he spoke in his dark and low voice. "Touch the podium, and you will be transported."
Infinite does so, and she vanishes in a puff of green smoke. Hesitantly, Hodlin does the same, Allimir following. Selvia lingered for a moment.
"You might not want to linger here for very long like you already had."
Selvia looked up at the Daedra, then back at the podium. As she reached out to touch it, she hears his voice again. "In case something happens to my champion, I will need a new one."
She looks up to look at him, but he wasn't there anymore. Selvia thought for a moment.
What did he mean by that?
Champion? What's that?
Shaking away the thoughts, she reaches out again and came into contact with the podium.
And all she saw first was pale green.