“What are you doing here?” she heard from behind.

Turning back to the direction of the voice, there was a man standing. Finally, another life being. A deep sent of relief warmed l-rangris’s heart to discover she wasn’t alone here anymore.

“Ah! Sir” she pounced back on her feet, struggling to speak but, the words were gagged within her.

All the time she was panicked and agitated, observing unusual events transpiring around her in a place that she first time visited alone with not even her parents by her side. No one to accompany her, or no one to share her feelings with.

And now finally, there was someone else. Standing like a shivering doll, l-rangris tried speaking out her listed question. Question that could now be answered, situations that could now be interpreted and acknowledged but, none of them were ready to come out. She felt her heart beating so loud that she could hear them reverberating in her eardrum. This turned her into tears again.

‘Why?..’ she sobbed inwards inquiring ‘what is this? Why can’t I speak? I feel relieved looking at someone in front of me, then why can’t I say a word?’ she tried speaking again but nothing broke out, only her word being stifled in her throat. It was suffocating. Her voice heard in cracks as it refused to come out.

Pat

“Ah!”

Suddenly, she felt a palm rest on her head and she looked up. The same man who showed up just a moment ago was now smiling a pleasing one at her which gave her heart calmness.

“It’s okay...”spoke a soothing voice from him “I understand you are terrified by the atmosphere around here but, don’t worry....there are others around with me.”

At first, l-rangris was baffled by this. He mentioned others while there was no one around to be seen. Then what did he mean? All the way till arriving here she didn’t met anyone except that weird eyes person then who are the others he mean? She noticed him carrying a bag and his outfit was a long white coat over it a white cloak with gloves in his hands and he seemed to be a kind-hearted person from his demeanour.

“Are...are you a Doctor?” mustering all the strength in her she finally asked been able to speak without choking and fearing.

The man moved back nodding and introduced himself “Yes, l am a Doctor and my name is Zain. May I know who you would be?

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“My name is l-rangris Tayoah” replied the girl hesitantly introducing herself.

“I-rangris? It’s a weird name” the Doctor murmured repeating the name with a stern face which then broke into a smile “but, a beautiful one” expressed the Doctor his opinion by hearing the name. He turned his glance at the statues and added “well, I must check on the people first later we can chat, okay?”

The girl nodded in silence.

Moving on, Doctor Zain got to work, he paced till the center of the monuments of stone figures, placed his bag down,

As I-rangris was observing him, to her surprise his hand glistened with a yellow dust, he flipped his hand sending his power to the earth. Under his feet, a yellow symbol appeared with a glimmering light.

“What is this?” thought I-rangris as she couldn’t believe what her eyes were witnessing “a Doctor with power?”

The Doctor wasn’t done yet, this symbol stretched out white lines all around the surroundings, contacting up with all the statues in the area. Meeting up each statue, it got enveloped in a transparent hexagon lighting in yellow. A smile spread on Zain’s lips. He, at the same posture, turned to girl and gestured her to come by.

I-rangris gulped and paced towards him “stand on the line..” he requested, instructing as a line stretched from him towards her feet.

As she stepped on it, a hexagon covered her “eeaaaaaah!!” she shrieked in terror and jumped out of the hexagon in fear.

“Hahahaha” laughed Zain “don’t worry, its nothing harmful” he calmed her.

“But, this is all new for me,” replied I-rangris sadly.

To the Doctor’s experience, he realized the girl wasn’t feeling comfortable and could drop ill by the anxiousness of the surroundings.

‘I must try to calm her down, she said it’s new for her, so perhaps…. She could be’ his ideas were starting to perplex him too. However, for the girl he decided to remain cool “I am sorry” he said in a gentle voice “you must be worried right?” he asked and the girl turned to him.

He turned front looking at the statues and said, “let me explain you, what I am doing here?” this grabbed the girl’s attention. He gave out details, this was his power, and he was using his abilities to check all the statues here.

Inside, the living beings were alive. He, as a Doctor visits this place plus, with many others around checking their life source, health condition and heartbeat of surviving, then leave it the next day.

“Woah…” amazed the girl.

The Doctor smiled for her and proceeded interpreting the process of the power. The symbol under his feet is his power’s identity, pretty simple in a design. The hexagon which shrouded them, even the one which engulfed I-rangris was applied to examine the health of the beings.

“Wow you are awesome, Doctor!” cheered I-rangris happily “you inspected all of them in a single time. I have never witnessed anything like this before.”

“Thanks but, it’s nothing,” smiled Zain “it’s always my duty.”

“So, was I healthy?” asked I-rangris about her condition after understanding the process of the hexagon.

“As healthy as a child, I-rangris” replied the Doctor with a laugh.

“What about the others?” asked the girl, getting enthusiastic to know about the others inside the statues.

“All are good and healthy inside, still surviving,” answered the Doctor.

I-rangris looked around at all, she spotted a red hexagon and asked, pointing “Doctor, that’s red, what does that mean?”

Hearing this, he turned looking at it, his expression petered out with a sad reply “that one inside is….. dead….”