I have to weigh my options here first. I have to look at both sides' risks and rewards starting with Adam. Adam is a huge risk simply due to the fact that he might not even be here but if he is I'd finally have someone I understand. As for Little Me she has a lot less risk then Adam and having someone that knows about the land of time is far more useful than having someone who knows about the same if not less then me.
After weighing my options I decided to stay with Little Me. Exiting the portal and playing it cool I told her "Well if you're not going in I'm not going in either I don't really feel like tripping a third time." She was probably suspicious of me but decided to let it go I still don't know what to do I was hoping Adam would give me some ideas or at least find out more about the void but right now all I have is little me and the giant hourglass these are my only two hints about this place I have to use them wisely.
The glass has two blocks that could mean anything. It's not in my best interest to come to any conclusion. As for little me right now I want to get close to her and find out more about the land of time. I decided to tell her more about the pencil sharpening robot on the way back. I'll ask more questions when I get there. After a friendly conversation we made it back and I decided to give myself another question and I know what it is this time. I turn around ready to ask the question that's been lingering in my mind after figuring out about the land of time. I ask her "how do I fix time"?
She frowned and said "you really don't know, that's the whole reason I went to that void in the first place. They were right, I shouldn't have let you out". That a lot to take in who's *they* why shouldn't have I been let out, is that why she didn't want to go in the void? She probably views me in a more negative light but I found another clue. Who ever them is has to be similar to little me to some degree *they* could be even more useful. Little me is irrational and hiding something I don't know who *they* are but at this point I don't care playing these mind games with her isn't getting me anywhere.
This could be the biggest opportunity yet. I'm done getting on your good side. I'll break you for this info. I make my first move and charge at her tackling her to the ground right now. What I need is answers and I don't care how I get them. She pushed me off. She doesn't plan to just let me attack her.
She wants a fight so be it I decided to wait for her to make the first move and react. She rushes at me and stays just out of my range and starts moving around trying to bait a punch. I see she's using her youth against me. There's no way I could keep up with her and her age but she gave me the opening I needed. Her movement might be fast but also predictable. I caught on to her pattern pretty quickly. It was the same each time left, down ,right, down, rinse and repeat. I wait until she goes left then down and now I know what to do. I punch where she was going to be and hit her square in the face. I need to abuse this monument as much as possible so I start throwing a barrage of punches before she can recover. I hit her down to the ground. This is my golden opportunity if I do this right I could get all the answers I need.
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She gets on her first leg but I'm not letting her get up. I go for another tackle but she punches me directly in the stomach before she even gets up completely. It didn't hurt that much because she didn't have popper footing but she forced me to waste my golden chance. Getting another chance even half as big as that would be hard but I have to try anyway. I wait for her to charge at me but she decides to wait. Looks like she learned from her mistakes. I need to go on the offensive. I walk up to her hands up and ready for any quick burst of movement she might try.
Even though I might be slower than her, what I do have is range. If I position myself correctly I can attack without worrying about her fighting back. I get in my range and start walling her out with attacks blocking any movement option she might try to take. I wouldn't call this a golden opportunity but I have the advantage over little me. She has to do something if she wants the upper hand.
She keeps avoiding my attack, not really making an attempt to punch back. What is she planning? I keep punching, asking myself this question. Do I have her right where I want her, then I remember her previous plan and stop my punches immediately. She's trying to ware me out. I should have known her previous plan was all about using the age gap for victory.
She goes in as a reaction to me stopping. She probably thinks I'm tired right now but I saw straight through her plan. I'm about to snatch my second golden opportunity. I go for the punch and she avoids it just in time. She threw her punch and it was strong enough to knock me over. She uses her speed to tackle me right after the punch.
Now what? I can't push her off nor could I punch back. I lost the battle all I could do in talk "Who are *they*" She smiled and squeezed tighter."You're in no position to be asking questions here. I will do the questioning from now on. Why did you attack me?" There's no point in lying I just tell her the truth "I wanted answers the two of us were getting nowhere I thought *they* could be another source." She got angry "Do you think I'm not good enough if you want answers so badly just ask" is she serious I tried asking "I already ask you about *them* and you said "I said too much" don't tell me I didn't try." She squeezed even tighter and said "*They* is off the table but you can ask me about anything else but *they* are top secret." I'll test her on that theory then
we go back on forth on questioning
"Where's Adam?"
"I don't know."
"Does Adam even exist here?"
"Yes he does."
"If you don't know where he is can you help me look for him?"
"I would love to."
Would you look at that guess I was wrong. I spent all this time manipulating and tricking her into giving me answers just so I didn't get on her bad side and I just tackled her. I should have given Little Me more credit. I asked her to let go and she did. I told her that my next goal is finding Adam. I don't have to hide everything from her anymore. From now on there won't be any more lies or tricks. We will both have a common goal and together we can reach it.