A figure cloaked in black robe were staring deeply into the stars. Her black eyes looked deep and intelligent. Moving her eyes to and fro from one constellation to another discerning the pattern and writing notes in the leather scroll on the small table situated on a wide balcony at the tall tower. The sound of the quill writing on the leather scroll break the quiet night as not even a cricket sound could be heard from the tower.
She sighed slowly
“It’s about the time huh.”
She slowly roll the scroll and tie it with a red string signifying the importance of the scroll. Putting the scroll in her pocket she quietly walk to the small door. She then close the dark oak door with a slow thud. The stars is glimmering through the dark black sky shining dimly on the balcony.
A few hour later a small pigeon with its leg tied with a small parchment could be seen leaving through the roof of the tower. It flew to north of the tower. Within minutes the pigeon can’t be seen.
Serias Grey was walking on the street with the sunlight directly pouring through the tall skyscraper making the street that should be cool extremely hot and unpleasant. Finding it as uncomfortable, Serias took a cut through the back alley that was sheltered from the shower of sunlight.
He is on his way to his workplace when suddenly a small vortex appeared in front of him. Surprised by the sudden appearance he stopped barely in front of the vortex.
“Hou, this thing look pretty interesting.”
Serias let out an exasperated breath from his mouth. He slowly brought his hand closer to vortex. His hand pass through the vortex without resistance but it did not appeared on the other side of the vortex.
“Must be a small wormhole, but to think it would appeared on planet that the gravitational force is high is really awesome.”
Serias was a scientist before being kicked out of his research lab for trying out unorthodox experiment that caused, well the destruction of the entire research lab as the experiment goes out of control.
He did remembered the experiment. An experiment to accelerate photon exceeding light speed. The experiment end with a big explosion as the pure energy converter exceed its limit while accelerating the photon. The incident caused the complex multi-million dollars piece of machinery to be burned to smithereens. Not that he care. What he really care is his career as scientist and researcher collapsed like being flushed down the drain.
As head supervisor he was made to take responsibility of the incident. This lead to his forced resignation. Luckily his expertise was still needed somewhere. If not he would be living in the back alley rummaging trash for a living. But this new profession inhibit him from doing research that he like.
As a fellow scientist this kind of thing would of course make his heart as a researcher race wildly. Thinking about the fame and glory of finding something spectacular clouded his judgement.
"Hahaha. I would make myself a fortune with this discovery."
Thinking it would not harm to enter, Serias bring himself to enter the unknown.
His eyes was bombarded by colourful light as he found himself standing on a green meadows. With the vortex behind him, he walked slowly downward as the vortex is situated on a small hill covered by greeneries of tall trees. The smell of the grass, the earth, the air is refreshing. It is very different from the hustle bustle of the city where he live and work. From the width of the bark. From that place he could see green field that stretched to the horizon. It is like in the middle of nowhere. Looking up he could see the clear blue sky with specks of thin clouds spreading across the sky like some sort of (waves). There are some birds that fly in the blue sky. There were about two suns in the sky releasing its heat and light.
"Hang on a sec. Two suns. Twin star system. Not bad for a new world. Hahahaha."
On his left side there is a small stream that flow slowly with crystal clear water. The sound of running water attract his attention as he run to the stream and upon arrival slowly scooped a handful of water with hand and drink it. The water is refreshing and he feel revitalized by drinking it. After tasting the water he come back to the hill. From that place he could a tower that that is about 100m in height. Black obsidian in colour. The colour is really a stark contrast with the surrounding greenery.
“It would take about a few hours of walking to reach that place.” He thought.
After a few hours walking around the small hill he found out that only the hill have trees on it while the other area didn’t have any sort of tall vegetation. Only green grass could be seen as far as an eye can look. The grass look bluish if seen from afar. Occasionally, he could spot some flower that seem out of the world.
Serias thought as he enter the vortex. Entering the vortex again he was brought to the same place where he enter it. He thought that he would forget the location of the vortex so bringing out his smartphone, he geotagged the location. Satisfied by his finding, Serias walked slowly out of the back alley and head to his workplace. He hummed happily thinking about fame and recognition that he could get from publishing the discovery.
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Without his knowledge a pair red eyes could be seen from the dark place between the trees in the place beyond the vortex. The eyes were discerning him. A moment after Serias enter the vortex again, a black cloaked human came out and on her face a small grin could be seen. Her black cloak was shining dimly although it is made from black material.
“So he have come albeit too early from the prediction. But it shouldn’t pose a problem.”
For a few month after that, Serias frequented that place. He always come to that place to relax his mind from the stress of work. His current career as a lecturer is really annoying as he can’t do any research after the big incident where he blow up the research lab.
Thinking about the place, he could not see many of animals except occasional head of rabbits and the sound of cricket. He also feel weird as nobody came here despite the location of the vortex in the middle of city. Although the vortex was situated in the back alley it seems weird that no one aware of the vortex.
"Well that would serve my purpose to dominate the finding all by myself." He thought selfishly about it.
He still didn’t want to walk far from the small hill that house the vortex location. He didn’t want to take any risk of the vortex disappeared while he was walking to the tower. What his finding was for if the vortex collapsed and he could not go back.
"No way in hell I'm gonna do that."
He continued with the lifestyle until one day the vortex whisked out of existence when he just want to go back. He was dumbfounded by the sudden development. He stood at the place where the vortex was supposed to be.
“Ok damn it, now what should I do? All of my planning to study this place is now practically burned to dust. ”
Calming himself despite the disaster, he sat down on the ground with a small thud. After thinking hard for a few good hours he decided to head to the tower that he had postponed for a few month.
“Well as my fear of the vortex closing has happened, shouldn’t I explore the area?”
Thinking logically, he remembered that he didn’t even bothered to survey the area beforehand. Cursing in his mind, he slowly walk around for a bit before heading to the tower. The black tower look ominous contrasting the serene green meadows where the tower is situated.
While walking to the tower, Serias noticed that the stream flows in two ways. One was on the side of the hill where he always spend his time, while the other flow to the tower. Despite the ominous appearance, he feel like there is an attraction that make him walk to the tower.
After a few hours of slow walking, he arrived at the tall tower. Seeing it closely he could see numerous runes were carved on the wall. He walked around the tower until he found a big dark door made of wood. Knocking on the door,
“Hello is there anybody here. If there is no one, I’m going in.”
Without waiting for a reply Serias slowly pushed the heavy double door with all of his strength. Peeking into the tower he could see the dimly lit room was not dusty as if there is someone was living here. Even with the lack of light he could see the room was medium in sized that would do as a living room of a small house. Further back a flight of stairs could be seen. The windows was covered with a thick curtain blocking sunlight from reaching the inside the room. Suddenly, he heard a footstep from the wooden stairs. Serias quickly hide himself in the darkness of the room behind a big cupboard housing kitchen wares.
“Don’t bother to hide. I could see you crystal clear from here. Just come out already, I’m not gonna harm you.”
Slowly, Serias came out of his hiding place. He walked slowly out of the dark hiding place behind the cupboard. His tattered steps could be heard echoing throughout the whole room adding to the eeriness of the room.
“It’s been a while since a human came to this place.”
A sweet alluring voice as sweet as honey could be heard coming from above. From the place he stood, the creaking sound of the stairs being treaded could be heard. Serias saw a silhouette of someone slowly descending down the stairs. The women as he would say from her womanly outline that satisfy all curves, The person herself was a beauty that could only be found in modelling agency. No, he thought to himself. It's once in a lifetime chance for him.
The woman was wearing a black hooded robe with the hood on her back. The robe has slit that travel from the bottom pair to her knees revealing the knee length black leather boots that she wore. An image of witch in movies and books came into Serias’ mind when he saw the woman. The witch (what he call her in his mind) walked slowly from the stairs until she is about 5 m away from him. Her green eyes was staring deeply into his eyes. Then from her mouth,
"Oh it's you. The human of another world."