In a distant future humanity achieved such a level of technological advancement it was able to breach the borders of three-dimensional reality and move to the multiverses of multidimensions. But some of us were too afraid to move on. So, they stayed...
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We were moving in a narrow corridor. The hunchback walked in front, and the bull walked behind me. Walls were covered in metal, as if it grew from somewhere deep and argued with the stone for these dark and moons forgotten places. But not everywhere metal managed to win, and stone reappeared, giving its uneven light to the surrounding. I stumbled a couple of times, but the angry breathing behind my back quickly returned the rhythm to my steps.
The woman Strife in me was completely unsure of what was happening, but the resident of the launcher, an immortal man who already occupied a good half of consciousness in this unfortunate body, rejoiced. He caught thoughts about the golden-haired woman walking behind and tried to use my body to look back as much as possible.
"Why are you twitching all the time, freak?" Chicag boomed, catching my hopeful gaze.
I didn't say anything and shook my head. Returning to inner madness.
We climbed out of a manhole in the middle of an alley forgotten by the whole city. Prayer modems were scattered around and it smelled damp. Bushy-Boo went first and led us between the houses, which had moved their walls so close that the bull puffed every time with displeasure, squeezing into the treacherously narrowing passages.
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In another such alley, the old lady stopped and beckoned me to follow her, giving a sign to the others to wait. Leading me to a barely noticeable door, she knocked three and then four times.
"Well, saint, come on."
There were footsteps outside the door, and I breathed quickly, frightened. There was no certainty in my heart or in my mind. But something that arose from behind my back whispered a name in my head - Saburdakai.
"Sabur-dakai?" I said in a shaky voice.
Nothing happened for a long time and I felt Bushy-Boo tense up next to me. But then the magnetic bolt behind the door clicked, and it drove sideways. At the same moment, Chicag pushed me away and burst into the room behind the door. There was a muffled scream and the sounds of a struggle. I was picked up, and I found myself in a small room where, to my horror, the bull was removing the lifeless body of the guard Saburdakai from the horns.
