Numbness spreads down my legs as the sand that seep into my boots are causing them to be heavier then they should be but I continue to force myself to go on as the house is so close now and when I come up to the front doors I throw myself into them making them break off their hinges as the wood is all dried up and brittle, I pant as I fall to the sand covered floor knowing I'll regret it later as the sand is sticking to my sweat filled shirt but for now I'm grateful for the much needed rest. The slight coldness the comes with shade and shadows fall over me feels amazing against my slow burning skin, once I'm not feeling cooked inside out I climb to my feet with a little bit of a struggle since the muscles in my legs are quickly becoming sore but I push through it to find a look around the place.

Like many of the other buildings this too is falling apart with age and that there's barely anything left except for rotting wooden furniture but this quickly changed when I went into the basement to see it has been turned in a small library with the wall covered with shelves of books, immediately I walked over to the desk when seeing it only to find a journal left opened and although the language looks strange I can read it perfectly.

'My dear boy Scaramouche,

I am terribly sorry for my absence just after your creation but this city it doomed and has been from the start as this land is too cruel for anyone to live, it seems to be cursed. Sadly I'm writing this too late as I just have enough strength to write this short letter since I used the rest to fix you from your accident but I'm too weak now to put your heart in, Scaramouche even as your creator I love you and just remember nothing or anyone isn't perfect as I didn't make you perfect not because I didn't want to but because I don't have the ability to do so.

~Citor Jez

P.S If this isn't my dear Scaramouche please as for my dying wish put my dear Scara's heart back in, you have all you need in the laboratory where I left all my instructions and journals.'

"Scara?" I mumbled to myself after reading the letter in complete disbelief that I'll meet someone this early in my journey as Naaji didn't specify on which worlds that would be combined for this world so with Scara here this tells me that Genshin Impact is one of the worlds, I don't know which characters I'll meet from the game.

"Ok, Scara is a puppet in the game but it seems here that he's a robot?" I mumbled to myself again confused on what he is in this world but I just shake my head to throw the thought out as I need to focus on finding water instead so I leave the desk alone.

"Laboratory means water!" I gasped at the thought making my eyes widen and look around wildly before running back to the desk to look for information on how to get into the laboratory.

"Key!!!" I yelled as I hold up a old styled key into the air which I had find in one of the desk drawers but now to find the key hole which I have a feeling it's in one of these bookshelves that's lining the walls of the basement making me sigh but I got to work, I moved books aside to knock onto the back of the shelves to find where it's hollow. Finally after checking six shelves I found where it's hollow behind the bookshelves so I remove the books and carefully sit them stacked on the floor before feeling around on the wood looking for the key hole, I look around and feel around wildly desperate for water knowing I can survive three days without water but today is the second.

"Where is it." I hissed to myself as my patience is wearing thin fast and with a suddenly bust of anger but instead of punching the shelf I take a deep breath to calm myself before looking around the bookshelf again.

"ouch!" I hissed when hitting my head into the shelf when looking closer at the bookshelf which the shelf slab falls off it's placing and hits the floor, now with a bump on my head I give a sigh only to see a key hole staring at me in the face when I looked up where the shelf slab was sitting at which was hiding the key hole so with excitement I slam the key into the hole and give a sigh when it turned easily. The bookshelf swings in with a crack of age as a thick layer of sand and dust falls to the ground allowing me to see that the laboratory is like the ones movies and shows have that are covered in thick dust and spiderwebs while having science stuff lays abandon on tables but I ignore all this for running to the pump I see I'm the back, cranking the pump is hard with the metal all rusty and although I got it down but I can't get it back up without oiling the joints so I turn to look around the Laboratory for any.

It seems I have already used my luck points as I didn't find any lay around the Laboratory so I decided to force it and used my whole weight, with a loud screech the pump handle goes down so now I go into the bench press position to get it back up and by the time I hear something coming through the pips my muscles feel so sore. At first a puff of sand comes before dirty water leaks and with a gurgling sound clean water shots out which I immediately dive into the floor to greedily drink what fills my mouth but the water stops quickly as I'm not pumping, with my thirst somewhat satisfied I got up and slick my wet hair back before finally actually taking everything of the Laboratory in and finally noticing the white sheet covering something on one of the many tables. Pulling it off to see a motionless figure laying there on the table with nicely cut indigo hair and a sleeping face that is spotless of any blemishes that comes with being a living organism, my eyes travel down the short frame only to see the pale chest opened to expose that what makes him tick is missing.

Scara looks exactly like his game counterpart except for his chest is reminding me what the letter had said about it, with a hum to myself I look around the Laboratory again for a bucket which I used the white sheet to clean what sand that didn't come out when turning it over and being to fill it with water as I don't know how much this pump had which I drink my fill without making myself sick.

I opened random books and what seems to be worn down journals until I see a diagram of a mechanical heart which I immediately begin to read as it shows how to place Scara's heart in, there's two pipes in his chest that the heart need to be connected and locked in to before placing special pen in the side of the heart to get it going.

"Now, where did he put your heart?" I said to myself with a sigh after placing the journal down onto the dusty table and searching around again but this time for his heart.

"Where the hell is it!" I hissed as I still haven't found it a few minutes later and my eyes glanced over the only painting in the laboratory when glancing over the room which my eyes immediately go back to after a idea popped in my head, I marched over to inspect the wall behind the painting which I smirked when finding a small safe but it quickly falls after remembering I don't have the code for it or ever seen a code since being here.

"Well, fuck me." I whispered to myself with a disappointed sigh when trying to open the door hoping the scientist left the door unlocked but it wasn't, I take the painting off the wall completely which I leaned against the wall before going back to the piles of books and journals I have created on one of the dusty lab tables. I flip through them once again but find nothing until I looked through the journal I had set aside that has Scara's heart manual in it which I found the code three pages after it so I swiftly returned to the safe and put code in, I almost missed it as it's spelled out instead in numbers if it wasn't for the dash in the twenty-six.

"Shit!" I yelled as I fall to the ground after having to pull on the safe door to get it open which I even have to use the stone wall for leverage and when the door finally moved it breaks off it's rusted hinges causing me be thrown but I quickly got back up onto my feet, sitting on a red cloth is the mechanical heart and pen.