About a certain return

Part 6

I got by design or unwillingly into a rather large cave, a fire was burning and around it there was a group of people that I knew from the restaurant across the street (open fires are forbidden inside the city), the interior of the cave was lit by torches set in the rock recesses ... yes I understood this was a headquarter of the gang, anyway I was on my own and needed only to stand up and... But what were the boys doing there? Yack! They were urinating on one of their own. "I haven't seen anything!" One of the vehicles coasted down towards me and stopped alongside with me: What are you doing? asked a sound as come out of a bugle, how are you? I am an ark, my name is Fourtish...

He really looked like a skull this Fourtish. Without teeth and lower jaw.

– I am Fivetish, I friendly said. Why did you bring me here?

– You wanted it.

– Me? I don't think so... Had I been so thoughtless? What are doing your friends?

– They are no friends, they are masters. They do what they do, we don't know what. Ask either them or the mistresses

– But where are the mistresses?

– Where Mother Coolina is. There.

There was a tunnel that got to another hall. I couldn't find another exit so I went that way. To stay with the ugly ones was frightening. Their habits seemed to me blameable. I considered myself to be a civilized person. I could find out how come those wonderful women associated with such monsters. I know a legend about the personality's beauty, well hidden in a mutant body, The Beauty and The Beast legend. Was it like that? I got to the hall, nobody stopped me, I walked through a corridor lit by torches...and got into a much larger hall. I was somewhere high up and I had to get down. From there I saw that most of the hall was flooded, the water was flowing from one side, in a water fall, forming a lake. The noise made by the water fall could be heard also from the hall where the men were, but I had been too confused to realize what all about. There was a very humid air and difficult to breathe... It became unbreathable when I saw the fairies laying necked in the water. "Is it wise to step forward?", "Come!" I heard them, "come!" Oh, poor me, I must be dead and I'm in Males Heaven among angel-girls! But if it is hell 'cause I just spotted the devils?" Hell-Heaven, imaginary places. But don't seem unreal... "Come!", as if they were saying "Touch me!" What must I do? Although my common sense told me not to disturb a group bathing, I came closer... Why? Mother Coolina, a more decent old lady, that is covered in a roughly weaved mantel, thinned, on which all sorts of ribbons and patches were clinging, asked a question that woke me up a bit:

– This is the neophyte?

I became more cautious, some of my senses suspiciously atrophied. I had no intention to join any banned organization or to be initiated in any illusive knowledge... "What sense does it make, I was telling me in my state of sanity, to push my look? I've learned from others how to live. Nobody did more than what he understood and what his mind was capable to think. Anyway, you are initiated and then you can initiate somebody else in the human existence secrets. It's just a life time which isn't forever, and you're a human only for a short time. What's beyond us, stays beyond us. We need other senses, the efforts are useless..." I was a fallen asleep think who believed itself to be clever!

– Come closer, you mortal! Why did you come here?

– Me? What did you mean by "here"?

I saw Gina. She had a "device"...! Beautiful woman! But Gina looked at me somehow annoyed. I didn't say what I was supposed to say?

– What do you want? What's going on?