Everyone,

Omari,

The blue flame,

My mind can’t stop buzzing,

All the commotion,

All the thoughts,

I can’t stop feeling things,

Why do I have to deal with this right now?...

….“Looks like we have a non-believer here! The guard bellows at my dazed body that lay on a rubble of bricks,

Feels like I was hit by a truck...

“Dedicate yourself or suffer the consequences!” the guard continues,

A small crowd begins to gather from the commotion

“Is that one of them!?” A man queries looking at me in disgust

“He isn’t,” the guard answers, “this one’s on the fence, but with God’s guidance, we can help his poor soul choose what side to go to.”

“Take him to the Head!” a woman yells, “he’ll surely ‘fix’ him”

“Yes!” someone else agrees, “pick him up the Head will ‘cure’ him!”

“Whaaa...?” I say dazedly as a crowd of people near me

“Get away from me!” Stumbling to my feet, I scramble away from the crowd.

“Don’t run we can help you, dedicate yourself and you will never have to run away!”

The crowd of people builds as I run further away, back into the city,

The beautiful lights now feel like signals of despair as they point towards me alerting the people to my location, no matter how hard I try to hide. ~

~Now fully into the night the streets which once felt safe, feels like a well-designed mouse trap.

Agghh! I turn a corner and a bright light flashes on me

“The non-believer!” someone shouts.

Vwooosh! A strong blast of wind flies just past me almost connecting with my face

Aiming an arrow, I fire a shot spectacularly missing,

Immediately I run for it!

Gripping my bow tightly I fire another shot which also misses,

I can’t do this!

Maybe I should let myself get caught, it’s not like these are bad people, just a little bit too passionate….

…...“Get off me!” A girl’s voice screams,

I turn the corner to catch my breath, the crowd still hasn’t spotted where I went yet-

-“Untie me!” a girl demands, “I’ll kill you, untie me!”

Huh?

Further up the street a short girl is being carried away by two women,

Ducking behind a stall I try to avoid being spotted-

-“I won’t dedicated myself to your bullshit!” the girl continues,

“Your Head Priest is a fraud!”

The girl from earlier?

Maybe she knows something that can help me, I can use this situation to my advantage.-

-“I can use magic!” the girl warns, “don’t think I won’t hesitate to freeze you to death!

Wait till I get my hands free ,

And little bit of time to prepare,

You just waumph!”- I crash right into the women, bow first, knocking them to the ground,

The bow lights up from the force of the impact,

Technology? -

-No time to think about that now,

“Come on!” I Yell to the girl cutting the ropes with an arrow tip,

“Did you believe me!” her freckled face lights up in delight,

“No time to talk we have to find a way to escape this city!”

“No can do, there’s no way out,”

“Then where do we go!?” I gasp picking up the pace,

“Were you not the one who rescued me?

Without a plan, haha you’re a funny one” she laughs

“Come on!” she directs, ducking into an alleyway, then climbing unto a roof,

“Keep up!”

~~~

The moon shines vividly as the cold night silently flows on,

Lights flash desperately in search of someone as two figures make their way through the city,

Badump!!

My body crashes hard atop of a roof as I just botched a leap across two houses

“Don’t say Anything!” I bark noticing a slight smirk,

“Let’s keep going”…,

Squeezing between narrow alleys,

Crawling under tight passages,

Running atop roofs,

We reach a shack in the southeast area near the city walls,

Its rundown dilapidated look, like a stain on the canvas of the perfect design of this city.

“Over here!” the girl nudges to a latrine to back of said house,

Chanting something a light swiftly flashes at blinking speed

“Jump!”

She pushes me forward into the pit,

A rush of hot air wraps around me, As I weightlessly fall into the abyss-

-Splash! I land directly into a body of water,

“Ahh where are we?”

“Welcome,” the girl says falling in right after me,

“Welcome to the Un-Holy city, God’s Anus.”