"Hmmm... everything like every day, again researching as hell and waiting for no reward; huh, what a great life! But my workshop and my books are my friends, I need nothing more" the regular thing he says when he wakes up every morning. Currently he's researching on a... well... let's say teleportation or something like that. He takes his watch and wears it, goes out of his room and takes a glance at everything, yep! like every day. Time to go work.
"You can't actually see it but gravity affects time like this" and he draws a picture of relativity theory by Einstein. When he's doing it, someone knocks the door of the class, he turns his face at the door and says with a loud voice "yes?". The door is opened and he sees the principal. "Can I talk to you for a moment?" the principal asks him. He looks at the students and says "One of you read aloud the book until I come back". As soon one of the students starts, he goes out of the class. Principal looks at him with a fake pity face says "I'm sorry but we need you to retire". "WHAT?" he replies so fast just like a reflex. With a deep voice after clearing his throat continues "what do you mean? I'm a professor." Principal says "There's another person whom we replaced, he's VIP, you know" his unbelieved face turns yellow. "I'm sorry there's nothing I can do for you, now pack your things and leave." the principal says, turns his back at him and heads to the office.
Richard starts his car with sorrow flowing over his body. He takes a look at the mirror, his gray long hair's getting whiter and whiter, by days passing. He sighs and drives to his workshop or in the other word his home!
He enters his house, takes off his coat and puts it on a table next to a vodka bottle. His depression commands him and he drinks it all in one breath and it burns his entire body. He heads to his room to rest a little. As he enters the room, the machine which he's working on now attracts his attention. The... teleportation machine, it can really change the whole world. He turns the device on once again to see if it works, but nothing! Nothing's happening. He goes to bed with a tired body and disappointed brain and as soon as he goes to the bed, he falls asleep.
Slowly opens his eyes, "what a nice nap, it really calmed me down." As he sees the roof he asks "was the roof always like this?" ignores it and looks at his watch; "Is it broken? why is it showing 8 P.M even though the suns light is lightening the entire room? Wait my room have never had any windows. Something really is off!" He sits on his bed and the scene he sees like electricity shocks him and he widens his eyes. "What the hell? What's going on here? where's this room? where am I?" looks like he's in an old wooden room, and he sensed something else earlier as well; he looks at his hands, "Why are they so young?" everything is so mysterious he's not sure but he thinks it might be effect of that machine; But he really can't judge yet. He stands up and he feels like his height seems a little lower than his previous body. He walks toward the door and opens it. It makes a noise that every old door would make. He takes a look outside carefully and sees that it opens to a corridor. It's lightened with the light of sun and he can see a lot of doors and there a torch beside every door but they're not lighten. "Of course it's day time." he guessed. He gets out of the room and walks to the way he sees, which is not a dead end. Wooden floor makes some noises while he's walking on it. At the end of the corridor he sees some stairs, after going down of those stairs, he spots a lot of people in some sort of hall, like some guild "What language are they speaking?". He notices them wearing armors and carrying some stuff like sword, shield and some kind of wood!
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When he gets down of those stairs he feels a lot of eyes on him, seems like they've seen some strange thing about him but he tries to ignore it and head to a girl behind a desk who he considers her as the receptionist or something like that. While he's going to her, he hears some whispers in the same odd language, "what really it is? I know over 70 languages and still I find this one strange." When he gets to her, she immediately speaks in that language, but when she finds out he can't get what she's saying, she stops. Richard tries to see if she understands anything "Can you understand me? میفهمی چی میگم؟ что теперь? そしていま？..." he gets no responds and she's just confused. With a bit of hope he uses sign language, and as soon she sees him doing it, tries to make him wait by some hand gesture, and goes to the room behind her. After a while another girl comes out with her out of that room, stands in front of him and uses some sign languages. He can't fully understand but can guess what she's trying to say "Are you from another country?" she asks and he replies "well, you can say so" she feels the same when he talks with sign language, confusion; but she can somehow get him as well. She asks "don't you know anything about the language?" While she's doing the gestures, he copies some and responds "I know another country's language." she seems impressed by how he copied her words. She says "you stay here, we have a language book." then she gets a book from the same room she was in. He can sense less attention on him now from the people in there but it's still a lot. She puts the book in front of him on the desk "We lend this to you, so you can use it to learn." He replies with grateful expression on his face "thank you!" and takes that book and goes back to the room he found his self in, in the first place.