Veronica looked around but she couldn’t see Eto anywhere. The crowd she was standing in was huge and people were walking by real quick.

‘Eto?’ she screamed and Veronica started walking.

‘Wait!’ Hawk yelled and he pulled her arm.

‘If you go searching for him, you will get lost too.’

Veronica looked at him with a troublesome face. ‘TYO is gone too’ she said, not seeing the little robot by their side.

‘Don’t worry,’ Hawk tried to tell with confidence. ‘They knew we were on our way to the harbor. That’s where they will try to go to find us once they realize they lost us.’

It took a moment for Veronica to realize this and soon she gave a look of comfort.

‘That’s right,’ she said but still she wasn’t fully convinced. Deep in her heart she still was troubled. It was Eto they were talking about.

Somewhere in the city, Eto was walking through the crowd, searching for something. TYO held onto his leg.

‘Eto, we should get back. Veronica and Hawk must be worried,’ the robot said but Eto didn’t hear him. ‘I'm 87% sure we don’t know where we are, except for the platform level and the planet.’ This time Eto heard him.

‘Don’t worry TYO. We know they are going to the harbor. Let them handle that. I’m no good at finding someone for the ride.’

TYO let out a sound that sounded like a sigh.

‘What is it that you are looking for?’ he asked while still holding onto Eto’s leg.

‘I heard someone mention the temple of the holy knights. I want to know where it is.’

After walking and searching, Eto decided to ask a few people who walked by him. Most of them sounded irritated but the last one gave a direction.

‘Allllll the waaaaaay to the riiiiiiiight’ a purple alien said with a nagging voice. Its skin looked like rubber and it wobbled with every move it made.

‘Thanks,’ Eto said quickly and he left. TYO let go of his leg and started riding behind him on his tiny wheel.

Eto and TYO quickly passed some buildings and when Eto thought he should ask for directions again, TYO saw something.

‘There!’ he said and he pulled Eto’s pants. Eto looked in the direction and saw what TYO meant.

In the distance, between the buildings, they saw a huge temple which was completely out of place.

The buildings of Etoile were all advanced with high tech, this was a building made of stone and it looked like it had been there for centuries.

Eto made his way to the building and TYO came behind him, looking concerned.

The temple stood on a little hill, with large stone pillars to the side holding the roof. A little stair of steps in front of the temple was made out of the same stone as the building. Next to the huge entrance were two statues of warriors and when Eto came to the entrance, he stopped to look at them.

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Left was a woman in warrior's armor holding a bow with arrows. On the right was a man wearing the same clothes, holding a spear and shield.

‘Wow, would you look at that,’ Eto whispered but TYO could hear him.

‘The holy knights?’ TYO asked and he tried to scan the statues.

‘I guess,’ Eto said, who was still amazed by them.

After looking at them for a while, he took a glance at the entrance.

A huge open door was inviting people to walk in but the inside of the temple looked dark.

Slowly Eto started to walk inside but TYO drove next to him and grabbed his pants.

‘Eto, are you sure? Hawk told us not to stand out. We should not show ourselves more than we should.’

Eto gave a little grin. ‘Don’t worry. It will be a quick look. I just never had any contact with something from the holy knights except for what my grandpa always told me.’

TYO wanted to talk it out of him but he accepted that he wasn’t going to succeed. Slowly he followed Eto into the temple.

Veronica and Hawk walked into the harbor. When Veronica saw what it was like, it kinda reminded her of the little harbor back home only this one was larger.

It was a large room with bars to the side where everybody got their drinks and food. In the middle were tables where travelers would gather to eat, talk or rest. Like the city, it was filled with all kinds of species.

‘Alright, let’s see if I can get this right,’ Hawk said and he slowly walked to a robot who was putting drinks on a plate at the bar.

‘Excuse me, I’m searching for a pilot who can help us get somewhere.’

The robot, red and tall with multiple arms to hold the plates looked at the professor. A voice came from a speaker on the robot’s head.

‘You are in the right place sweetie,’ the robot said with a woman’s voice.

‘Yeah,’ Hawk said with some concern and he stepped closer, looking around if someone was standing next to him.

‘And what if we don’t want to travel, let's say, on paper if you know what I mean?’

The robot looked at him, checking him and Veronica out.

‘Over at the back,’ the robot said and she nodded to the other side.

At the back of the room, Hawk saw a few people sitting, drinking and yelling loudly. The robot left him and Veronica behind.

‘Let’s try,’ Hawk said, trying to convince Veronica who didn’t like the look of the people in the back.

Slowly they walked through the crowd to reach the tables in the back, Hawk in front and Veronica slowly behind him.

‘Excuse me gentleman,’ Hawk said when they approached the table.

A few aliens who were drinking looked at him. They all looked horrible and scary but Hawk thought it was best not to show what he thought.

‘What is it, coatboy?’ one green alien with a long thin body and arms said before he took a sip. It only had one eye that was blinking a lot.

‘We need a ride to a planet. Not officially if you understand. The lady told us we could ask for it here.’

The same alien laughed and took another sip. After that he spoke.

‘The lady told you right, but it will cost something.’

The alien looked behind Hawk to Veronica.

‘Both you and the cute girl,’ he said while raising his eyebrow.

Veronica wanted to pull out her baton and smack him to the floor but she held her anger. Instead she smiled fake at the alien.

‘It also depends where,’ a man behind the alien said.

A giant alien with a lot of hair and a set of binoculars on his head said it while eating a dish without any table manners.

‘We have to get to Green point,’ Hawk said and the moment he said it, everybody on the table started looking at him with surprised gazes.

For a few seconds, a silence occurred but it soon was interrupted by the sound of all the aliens laughing.

‘Coatboy wants to go to Green point,’ the green alien said, pointing to Hawk and Veronica while laughing.

‘Oh boy. You guys sure are something,’ the giant alien said who kept laughing as food fell out his mouth.

Hawk didn’t understand. ‘Why? What is wrong with that?’ he asked but it was hard for anyone to answer while they were all laughing.

‘Don’t you know that Green point has been marked as a Lost world?’ the green alien said and Hawk was startled by those words.