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Interrogation room, San Francisco police department.

August 20, 2021

Within the interrogation room handcuffed to the table, the elder sat idly looking around a room with no one but her and the metal table as the sounds of nonentity encompasses her as she could hear her heartbeat, it was too noiseless and these moments of silents she begins to recall what happened yesterday and what made get her into this silent room and having to see that these humans are not the same ones as back at the homeworld. The elder was surprised, to discover that she wasn't executed by the humans for being a magic caster or an elf, she got see that she was sent to a holding cell and had to sit on it for a while, she was then moved to see that she had waited down there for the past two hours, these moments made her wonder what made these people more passive and what drives them to be more receptive.

But even with these thoughts, the humans still did not suspect them to be actual elves and even with the show of magic she was treated like a felon and having to see that these humans never get to see magic before, conversing with them was tougher than the elder expected. Seeing her being quiet and patient, FBI agent Richard and Chief officer Jolene both looked at each other after glimpsing at the door and having both been dumbfounded they could only think of what just happened yesterday. Having both seen the magic on their small meetup back at baker beach, both were intimidated by some the men only believed to have ever existed in fiction and video games… They had the elder and the rest of her high ranking followers join along with her, now with them being questioned by other officers.

"So what do you think will happen to these elves after we do our proper interrogation?"

Richard asked in a soft tone; hearing this he turned back at him. "Not sure. Having yesterday been a fuckfest, the federal government went more aggressive than I expected. Having that we had to force their wooden ships to relocate to some nearby port while having the national guard deployed en masse to the city, from all I know they aren’t going to be shipped to Gitmo.

It wasn't as they expected, with the federal government getting the info that the elves were responsible for the bridge incident, there was a sudden change of hearts, the situation begins to worsen and the media reporting it like no tomorrow, Richard had to see his nation dealing with a situation which they had never faced before. He glances back at Jolene and pats his right shoulder.

"That portal below it, what do you think is on the other side? will it take us to an alien world?"

Jolene looks back at Richard. "What?" And having to hear him chuckle, Jolene could only stare back, and with the time being late he looks at the door and quickly unlocks it causing a creaking to be listened out at the right corner, for the elder to see it was the same people as yesterday and with both wearing different uniforms, the elder was a bit embarrassed to see that she was wearing dirty clothes as before and with them getting into there sit and sits straight, gazing back to the two men.

"Evening ms. Liliana"

To hear his imitating voice, and to notice them being different from yesterday, their expression was irate and more moral and having to remember her attempt of revealing her magic, this change of heart could be one of their reasons.

"Evening gentleman."

Hearing this, both grin and immediately after so, Jolene placed down more papers than before and with additional information being given, made the elder quite surprised not expecting them to give more information.

"Additional evidence we had to collect from the bridge incident was given to us to be used in our interrogation, if you answer correctly and truly we can offer you back something which can assist us as well."

Hearing that she is in an interrogation room made the elder quite uneasy, the urge to break free was high, but even that she sees within the room that no type of torturing devices was placed in within the empty room. Even though both of the men had nothing in their hand, with the formal and respectable manner, Lillian had no choice, with her being close to see their ruling majesty, she quickly cleared her voice towards the men.

"Yes like yesterday before, I’ll explain everything."

Shortly after, Richard hands the elder a folder that contains a blurry picture of large wooden ships which were caught in camera, alongside this picture was an impressive quality and the powerful storm around it with a thick fog and constant lighting strikes, a man who would recognize this picture could obscure it out as a fake photograph.

"What are you looking at ms. Liliana is a photograph of your warships entering, our territorial waters without our permission. How did you manage to pass over the bridge without entering radars detecting your fleet at our coastlines?"

With the photo placed towards the elder takes a quick look to see that it was her being passed over from strong waves, lighting around them, a beacon-like light, flew at the background and having to notice this while they didn't she looks back to Richards

"Like I said Mr Richards, magic!"

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To hear the "magic" report made Richard quite uneasy with the interrogation, Jolene could see his reaction, arms covering around his head wondering what made him get into this mess, to hear that she uses the magic excuse once more, Richard was fed up with the utterance of magic, he turned towards Jolene with a tired look.

"Can't do much with this."

Hearing this, made Jolene not devoted to this attempted meeting, with the mage not giving a full brief down on what is their goal they search, it made him concerned about what happened back at the bridge.

"Ms Lillana, please understand that you are talking to a professional and this information you provided us will be handed to the public and both the people listening along within this room, to say having you bring your excuses of the use of 'magic' isn't helping the situation that happened 4 days ago, give us a full rundown on what is your main end goal and your objective of intruding American waters, your actions can also be taken as an act of war against the United States of America ."

The elder had to hear that there a more people than just them and the word “war”, made her quite surprised and spooked, as looking around this empty room her suspicion begins to inflate, but her knowledge on what happened back to the people at the baker beach was unknown, with her being dragged away from the golden gate bridge, to see this issue it would mean that tenikic magic communion wouldn't work and her offensive magic was completely useless as mana around was weaker than hoped, this issue without any words back at the beach and her being brought in this empty cage.

"Before we talk further, I must know something. What did you do to my people?"

To hear this question he turns towards Richard, and with Richard looking back at the elder he folds his fingers.

"The thirty-five wooden vessels that were on the beach was placed to a nearby port since it was blocking our passage below the bridge, and for your people, we had some join alongside you the ones with the hooded cloak of there and we had some be left at the beach as we have people interview to least have a basic knowledge for their side."

To hear this gave a relief to the elder, and to see that none of her people was harmed by the Americans, the elder sees that this "interrogation" would be a walk in the park, as long she gave her truth to the two men in front of her there faiths would be saved.

"Yes, I'll continue our talks like yesterday."

To hear this made both quite pleased, and standing straight like always both soon gave folders from different points of view from the incident once more.

"Like what Richard had said, how did you manage to enter the bridge without any coast guard ships noticing your fleet?"

the elder places her hand in front of the men. and having to open her palm with her cuffed in hands, a ray of light begins to appear to her fingers with it beginning to light up.

"Our country had entered your waters through a magic portal which was placed down below the bridge over ten thousand years ago before civilization had come to these lands. The pillars which still exist to this day were hidden from humanity and could only be accessed by powerful elders and magic casters. On our side, it did work like a charm but the unfortunate part was that the pillars could work properly due to the scarcity of magic in this world. To counter this, a strong storm was placed down and its lightning began to hit the pillars forcing us to rise from the waters allowing us to go to the underside without the need of entering your coast."

It was unbelievable what they just heard, but even though it was least convincing that both Richard and Jolene were thinking it about what they just learned, though having to hear that the lighting strikes was the one which made the attacks at the bridge, this gave one thing at least to report back. but even though they still doubted the story, she had relayed even with her statement about the portal causing them to come to this world, it was the need that made them come to this country.

"But that's the question, what caused your people to reach this country?"

Remembering that what she would say would be bogus for Jolene and Richard, this determination of coming to their country would be a long story and hard one to explain, as knowing that they wouldn't easily believe the story, the elder sighed and looked back at the men.

"Well…. My people and I came from a world we called the Negev, and the continent we lived upon is called the lands of Gaia. Our continent was ravished by constant war and our people had to suffer, many gave hope of ever seeing peace in these lands until the Kingdom of Elijah came to help us. They used their diplomats and their army to force peace treaties with our neighbours and made them see what war had done to this beautiful continent, destroying the land and its economy…This change of heart had an effect on many of the countries below in the south which caused the end of the great, and immediately as peace reigned again our lands begin to heal their wounds as our nation never gets to see another conflict once more."

"For over fifty years we enjoyed peace and prosperity, with harmony among our species. Our continent finally began to recover from the devastation brought upon us by war. Our lives `perfect, many believing the days of war were gone. Until…Until those damn humans came to ruin our lives and destroy everything we had made till now. , (gib name to empire here) had managed to bring a massive army, marching across the great Fostering desert and had its lay waste to the kingdoms we called allies. Our people tried to stop them but they were too powerful for us to stand a chance. Those peaceful years made our army weaker, without any experienced officers or generals in command our forces crumbled, our nations were in peril and we were sent had come to these lands to ask for aid in this tragic war."

A disturbing but fascinating tale to hear and something which surprised the agents though they did not show it to the elder, even with this tale it didn't add up and made more questions than answering the ones they asked., For Richard having to know that there is another thriving civilization just their own embroiled in the war on the other side was something he had not expected, he wondered if elder could have just asked other nations from different Continents in their world for aid rather than coming through the portal to seek America’s help.

"You mentioned before that in your world, Negev there are more continents, why didn’t you seek their help, why come all the way here ?” Richard asked.

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"We tried, Mr Richard but neither heeds our call for help, not even the strongest of nations those would have been capable of halting the humans joined hands to help us

Not something he wanted to hear in response, even her reasoning didn't give them a full picture of what is going on. They only heard their side of the story, and from what they know these people are in dire need of assistance and their world is currently going through a humanitarian crisis. Both the Agents looked at each other.,

"So what to do now?" Richard got closer and whispered.

"We continue our interrogation if she does give us everything we need, then she and her people wouldn't be charged with manslaughter at the bridge"

He glances back to Liliana, to see that she listened through their small convo and heard that she would be arrested for manslaughter back at the bridge due to the opening of the gate, she lowers her head a sense of grief washing over her. Even though the agent expressed her regret and felt ashamed for her actions, the agents just ignored it and kept their focus on their work by squeezing every bit of information from her.

"Ms Lilliana tells us everything in this new world and this 'magic' you possess, we are interested to understand these things that don't exist in this old world."

Their need to know their world, made Liliana see that she could have a second chance, for Jolene taking a small smoke he sees that’s her goal was to meet their current president with the need of asking aid to save their country from the invaded by some imperialist empire, even if she pleads on her knees it is a very big chance her requests wouldn't be heard out, knowing about their current situation on earth chances of America wanting to save some unknown country, in a new unexplored world wouldn't happen, with there focus being on Taiwan and the situation back in pacific and keeping the dragon in check being more important than this incident. He gets the feeling that the president would have to decline this offer for now.

He turns back to the elder, with her ears open, He checks the phone seeing it still recording their conversation, and having this seen he turns back to her.

"Explain everything you got."