The carriage stopped when it was a bit of a distance away from it. It sees the person who drives the carriage turn their head to the side while keeping their eyes on it. They said something very loudly and then a few moments later, someone riding their own horse, moved in front and beside the driver.

The one riding the horse looked at it for a few moments before saying something.

"You there! Stay where you are." They said. Before looking back at the carriage driver.

Both of them started talking to each other about, something, it can't tell. It seems it doesn't understand the meaning of orders as it walked forward near them to hear what they were saying.

It walked and, impressively, wasn't noticed by the two as it moved. It got close enough that it can make out what those two were saying. Like it cared because it immediately got distracted with something else.

The horse that was ridden seemed to notice it was close first but didn't make a sound. It touched the horse on the side of its neck and began drifting its hand up and down it. It doesn't know what it is doing, but it felt like it knew that most creatures like this action happen to them. The horse seems to like it as it made a noise. A snort. Which alerted the rider who looked at it and made the horse move back to make some distance between it and them.

The person mumbled something quietly, in a negative emotion it seems, before looking at the driver. The driver looked back and shrugged. The person on the horse looked back at it and opened their mouth to say something.

"You! Are you willing to come with us?."

It tilted its head in confusion. The person on horseback then pointed into the carriage, that seems to be enough for it to know what they were talking about. It walked towards the carriage and touched the cloth that covered it. It can feel some emotion from the person on horseback behind him but it can't tell what kind of emotion was but it seemed to be pretty negative.

It lifted the cloth off the carriage and entered from under it and pulled its bottom half into the carriage. It is now in the carriage, back laid down on the wood. It looked around the carriage, it seems to contain a lot of cube containers. It also noticed the opening from behind the carriage, it thinks it should've entered from there.

"You good in there?" The person on the other side of the cloth said. It turned its body around to pop its head out of the cloth. The person on horseback looked at it and had a puzzling emotion on their face.

"I'll assume that's a yes." The person said, moving to the back of the carriage once more.

It pulled back its head and sees the person behind the carriage. "We're good?" The driver said.

"Yeah." The person on horseback responded.

The carriage began moving again which caught it by surprise, making it fall on its side. It quickly re-adjusted itself using the side of the carriage to prop itself up. It is now leaning back on the side of the carriage, sometimes taking a peek to see outside either from the opening in front of the carriage, the one in the back, or popping its head out the cloth to look.

At the times it looked out, it sees that they are all no longer in a forest but by a cliff overlooking the sea. Though it didn't feel the awe it once felt once more, it was a different feeling when it looked from this different angle.

Long after, they reached a wall stone wall with a big gate. It stood up and walked forward in front of the carriage to see the place better. The carriage stopped when they were right in front of the gates. The driver and the person on horseback began talking with the people that are in guards that are in front of the gates wielding spears.

While the conversation was happening, it inspected the wall itself. The wall was probably thrice as tall as it and looking to its left the wall was cut off by the cliff. Looking by the gate, there was a small building, stone, big enough for 3 small rooms or so.

During the conversation, the person on horseback got off and approached the guards saying things in a quiet volume that it can only be heard by the guards. It became curious and put a leg out to get close only to be stopped by the driver crossing the path with their arm. It looked down at the driver and then put its leg back in the carriage. When the person finished talking with the guards, they looked at the driver and the driver looked at it and began speaking.

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"Hey, this is where we part, you can get off now."

It didn't question anything about that. It got out from the front and jumped off the carriage. One of the guards nodded and screamed something. And a few seconds later the gates would open. It would see the other two begin entering the place and decide to follow them, only to be stopped by both the guards.

"Come with me." One of the guards said.

Its arm then suddenly gets snatched by the guard and dragged away into the small building, the gates close as it was dragged away. When they entered the building, it saw a room, a desk on the right with someone sitting on a chair behind the desk, then a bookshelf behind them, and two doors, one made of metal and the other made of wood. It was then dragged towards the metal door where the guard opened it and forced it inside, closing the door behind it with a thrash.

"Who is that?" The one sitting asked.

"Some random merchant pulled over, they assumed it was a criminal based on the get-up, and I really can't blame em." The guard responded. The guard walked away from the door's small window view so it couldn't see them.

"It seems to be too compliant to be a criminal don't you think?"

"I did think that, but there is no harm with being safe right?" There were sounds of rummaging when the guard finished that sentence. "When is the next inspection scheduled by the way?"

"Let me see." Some ruffling of papers can be heard. "An hour it seems."

"Good, that means," the rummaging sounds stop and footsteps can be heard approaching the metal door, the guard's head can be seen through the window, "this guy is gonna get out of here pretty soon." They crouched and slid a bag under the small gap in the metal door. "Enjoy your food."

It crouched down took the bag, opened it, and saw something very dry, it felt like it isn't meant to eat it but at the same time, it felt like it is. It took the dry thing and gripped it in its palm, It didn't know how to eat it but by instinct, a cloud of black smoke came out of its hand enveloping the piece of food, it felt the texture of the thing and its flavor, tough and salty respectively. When it finished one piece, it felt very indifferent about it, nothing bad nothing good about it.

As it took another piece to eat, the guard was still standing and looking down through the opening of the door with eyes wide open. The guard looked at the other person in the room and said something.

"This one's not normal." They said, pretty quiet but not quiet enough as it heard.

But it didn't care.

The guard, after a bit, finally walked out. When they did, it finished eating and now is stuck here. It didn't do much as it stayed in the locked room, it can't do much in the first place, it just walked around, looked out the window, and sometimes stuck its head out from the opening of the metal door to look at the person in the other room, which only looked at it with a very negative face.

A lot of time passed, it was laying down on the floor looking at the ceiling when a loud sound came from the door. It looked at the opening of the metal door and saw a person, not the guard or the person that was on the desk, but an entirely different person.

"Stand up, we're gonna need to transport you somewhere."

It did as it told and stood up. The metal door opened up and two more people entered the room, taking its arms behind its back, and restraining them behind with some device. It didn't feel comfortable at all in these. It was then forced to start moving out of the building and into an uninviting-looking carriage. It was covered in solid metal bars and not covered in cloth. It was forced to get in, sit down, and don't do anything. When it saw the two people finally ride their respective horses and the gates open, the carriage finally started moving through.

It looked around as the carriage moved, finally seeing the city the walls were covering. It was in a lower elevation from the walls needing to go down an incline, the city was large, each buildings stones looked white and untainted, bar some, some houses got up the incline making it look like the city curved at the edges, add to the fact that the city was by the blue sea, it made a beautiful sight. It would've enjoyed the view too if it wasn't uncomfortable with the restraints on it.

The carriage finally reached its destination, one of the few buildings that is not purely white. It was the gray stone that looked like the same kind that the big walls were made of. It was taken out and got into the building, dragged too fast to notice any details before it got into a hall filled with rooms that it can see into due to it having a wall that is just metal bars. It was taken into one of these rooms and its wrists finally unrestrained. The door behind it closed with a thrash and then it was left alone by itself.

It looked around the room, it was an echo of the room it was in when it was in the small building on the other side of the walls, but bigger. And like the other building's room, there was nothing to do other than look out and lay down.

Well, something different was outside at least. It saw a big white object, different than the star, it was the moon, it was something that signified something to it, it was now night. Almost a whole day has passed. What an eventful one it is, well to it at least, after all, everything felt new to it, so every event is a significant one. Well, it had enough of this day it seems as it only wants to lay down and start sleeping, hoping it will see something new the next time it awoke again.

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“It has been a day and you are already in confinement.” A familiar yet somehow unknown voice said.