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Everything further on up the stairs
was a luxury in some way, shape or form. Red velvet carpet covered the floor
being made out of such fine fabrics I could feel the soft cushions through my
shoes. As soon as we reached the main floor, the concrete walls and ceilings of
an underground tunnel turned into fine walls of that of a chapel. Stones,
metals and several kinds of glass paved their way down the hall as the theme of
red velvet continued not only on the ground but with drapes in the forms of
ribbons hung down from the ceiling going every direction. The ceiling itself
was something of itself; it towered up to at least twenty feet high if not
higher and frescos of what looked to be a divine theme showed through all the
gaps.
Stained glass windows and several
kinds of metals lined the walls on our left as to our right was several wooden
doors with family portraits in between—this continued down a straight hall for
what seemed to be miles. Everything had some form of a twelfth-century Gothic
style to it; walls had curves and vaults to make simple masonry look like some
childish activity. The place looked old but you could tell it was made
recently, just in an older form of architecture.
Light flooded through the hall from
the stained windows. Ville took the lead in front of me in some form of haste
but that didn't depreciate my love towards the craftsmanship that flooded the
halls. I lifted up my neck to get more sun to hit my face, it felt amazing,
this whole place offered that feeling as one gets whenever they finally get to
their house from a long vacation. This felt like my home for a seconds time
till I remembered that I may not even be welcome, I just wish that the events
that happened previously would not follow me here. I wanted a family; I
needed a family, a family to watch over me and to give me that feeling that I
get in my body that feels like a liquid happiness. I've never felt that before,
I loathed for it like it was a drug and under any circumstance I would do
anything to get that feeling again. I felt compromised to do others bidding and
I was fully aware of it but as long as I could feel good, nothing mattered.
Ville stopped in front of a door that
was to the right, it looked like all the rest--I couldn't figure out how he
knew which door he wanted to go through—as he pushed his hair back behind his
ears and breathed in deeply a few times.
'You going to be okay? You seem
really tense.' I asked.
'What?' He thought for a second.
'Yeah I am fine. I have just been away from home for such a long time I just
don't know how anything is going to turn out. I just hope we run into my father
first.' I laughed aloud for a second because he told me tales of his mother
while we were on our way to 'Calpernicius' or The City as a more common term.
He smiled back as me to then turn to the door and place his hand on the knob
and breathed in several more times. I heard a door behind us from where we were
coming from open. Ville instantly looked towards the sound as a foot came out
and then a man with a suit who was talking to himself and his head down came
out with his head down. Ville took his hand off of the knob as the man leaned
his back against the door he just went through. His stance turned into a more
aggressive position as he turned his head towards us—he knew we were here, like
a hunters instinct.
'You're not supposed to be here. What
the hell are you doing here?' My throat blocked up in seconds as I lifted up my
hands as if to say 'I don't know'. I couldn't find any words in which to
respond to him. 'I am only going to ask you one more time. What are you doing
here? You better answer me now boy.' I tensed up still speechless to turn to
look at Ville who was behind me. He looked at me as if he didn't know what to
say either but pushed me to the side to confront the man.
'I am sure you recognize me. Boy. I
am a long awaited guest and I deserve all of your hospitality within these
walls.' The man was speechless himself, making the same motions and sounds I
was making seconds prior. He looked like an idiot caught in his own steps with
his hand in a cookie jar, I laughed to myself then wondered if I looked like
that.
'Of course I remember you. You are
here earlier than expected.' Ville nodded his head and finally smiled.
'Well of course. Things turned out to
be easier than we previously figured, no thanks to this fellow man.' He turned
to his side pointing to me to show the other man looking at me intensely and
Ville offered the same look.
'I’m sorry.' I said. The two men laughed
together and the other continued.
'Well he certainly is a peculiar
fellow. I’m sure your mother would be please—' Ville stopped him.
'I was actually hoping to see my
father first is he in his study?' The other man rubbed his head for a second.
'Yes, he is but are you sure you
don't want to confront your mother first? She would be very...disappointed to
hear that you didn't see her immediately.'
'I know my mother, you don't have to
tell me that. I know what I am doing, just don't mention to anyone about my
presence till I have talked to her.' The man nodded to Ville as they shook
hands. He opened the door he previously got out of and looked both ways before
he motioned for us to follow him. I wondered to myself why there had to be such
secrecy but like in nearly all of my days previous, all would be revealed to me
within time. It seems like that is all it ever is, just some waiting game. I
shrugged it off and followed Ville and the other man. In this other hall,
continued the mass hallway but in another direction but the floors were made of
fine marble tiles, limestone and granite in their own respective places.
Instead of doors on both sides of us, there were mass sections of the walls
missing around us to be leading into much larger rooms. Everything was open
now, I guess we were more vulnerable to being seen but then again I never
understood the pertinence to be invisible at this time.
We turned down a much larger hall
with vaulted ceilings and flying buttresses, I was in awe but this wasn't the
time to stop. There were several other people talking on the other side of the
massive hall but we kept close to the buttresses. On the other end looked like
a lobby of a business. Posters and flyers littered the halls with propped up
signs saying 'regional seminars in rooms 4B-6C' along with a rather large desk
with many attendants behind them and a large open entrance with people flowing
in and out. To the left and right of us on the walls were several two metal
doors right next to each other to form something that looked like a pocket
doorway that I had in my own fathers house.
Ville and the man turned to the
closest one and waited for one to open. That's when I realized that they
weren't really trying to be as unseen as I previously thought. Ville stood in
front of the door with his arms crossed just bobbing his head till the doors
opened. He even turned to look at several people waiting at their own doors a
little more than fifteen feet to our right. At one point Ville maintained eye
contact with one in the other party and waved as the others waved back. Its
like I created some scenario in my head that said we were something like wanted
men.
I scratched my head for a few seconds
trying to figure out if all of these paranoid thoughts that I have been having
were all just self-made and I was drifting off from reality. I reached into my
pocket seeing if I was imagining the 'Cube' also—I wasn't. The cube sat there
in by pocket having the size a little smaller than my fist, actually taking the
shape of a cube now. I wrapped my hand around it to reassure that it was an
actual thing and a ding rung, out of my pocket. A sound that you get from when
you tap something like a glass cup with a spoon or such, just some kind of high
pitched dings.
I looked back and forth to see if it was coming from anywhere
else but I noticed that the men that were to our right were looking towards our
direction. Ville turned his head to look at me and I looked back confused. The
man that was with us began to walk away as the doors opened in front of us,
Ville grabbed my hand that wasn’t in my pocket and pushed me into this five by five
square room.
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