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Despite of the grim situation I was in, I found it a little funny that they thought I was an evil witch. I'm not evil, although I often am up to no good. I wondered how I would be able to convince them I wasn't Eisha, I didn't want to wait one week until they realized. I wondered why evil people always wear black capes in these fantasy worlds - wait, I mean the world I am in now that's actually reality. If only the man with the amazing blue eyes would realize I wasn't Eisha, then we would have a chance at a friendship together.
"Hiya blue eyed man, where in the world did you tie my friend? He can't be that far away..." I shouted after the man who was a good five meters ahead of me, which made me wonder, why wasn't he so worried that I would escape this place?
"I have a name, you know. And no, you can't escape this place because you aren't familiar with it and you'd just die if you tried to escape, duh," he exclaimed, looking at me as if I was crazy.
Oh my, I said that thought out loud. I have a really bad habit of saying thoughts out loud, my mom used to tell me that a lot. My heart twisted when I thought of my mom, I wish she had never gotten into that car crash and none of this would have happened.
"Eisha, why are you standing there? If you do this more, I'm going to tie you up again because you seem like you're up to no good!" The blue eyed man suddenly exclaimed while warily approached me like I was a tiger about to pounce on him. This made me feel terrible, because I was the exact opposite of a tiger in this strange world. No, I was more like a small helpless kitten.
"I'm not a scary person you know, you can treat me like I'm normal. What's your name by the way?" I asked, sounding more confident then I felt.
"Secret," he firmly said and then offered, "I can show you where that friend of yours is if you will follow me without causing any trouble."
I nodded and he firmly gripped my arm, walking me towards Fawaz who was tied to a tree in God knows where. I felt a jolt of electricity run up my arm where he touched it and wondered if he felt it too. Looking at his surprised facial expression, I assumed that he did.
I followed after him and soon, after walking in circles for a few minutes I caught a glimpse of a fat man with a cape around him also tied to a tree, asleep. He looked really comical, and I frowned, why was this harmless looking man here? Was he like the mini forest keeper or -
"So, Eisha, here's your friend that you so much wanted to see," said the blue eyed man, interrupting my train of thoughts.
Then it hit me, how could I have forgotten? That fat man was Feliz, also known as my friend Fawaz. "Why is he still all knocked out?" I asked, getting a little worried about him.
The blue eyed man smiled slightly and said, " we had a hard time knocking him out last night and had to hit him on the head several times... He isn't dead though, sadly I must add, his heartbeat is fairly strong!" Adding the last part when he saw my worried face.
I walked to Feli- Fawaz and bent down to scrutinize him. He seemed to be bordering conciousness- I poked him in the stomach and grinned when he suddenly jumped up, or at least tried to.
When Fawaz saw me, his eyes became wide as saucers and I saw terror in them. Suddenly he started to ramble, "what the freaking hel- ck? Eisha? Why are you here and why am I tied down? Did you capture me? No way... no no no, that's impossible. Oh my goodness! I'm so dead right now..."
I laughed. Yes, out of Eisha's character but it felt so good to laugh, something I hadn't done since the passing away of my parents.
Fawaz's eyes defied the impossible when they became even larger than they were before, his jaw dropped to the floor and I wished I had my camera with me so I could capture this wonderous moment. He obviously still thought I was Eisha.
I looked at the blue eyed man and saw that his facial expression very much mirrored that of Fawaz.
This made me laugh even more.
"Ohhhhh!" exclaimed Fawaz very loudly.
"What amazing life-changing conclusion have you come to this time?" I asked in a slightly teasing manner while still looking at the other man, who was having a staring contest with me. His eyes were slightly narrowed, as if scrutinizing me. I decided to name him Jim from now on because that is a nice name and fit his look well, in my opinion.
"I'm Feliz," Fawaz said with an awestruck expression.
I mentally facepalmed myself, Fawaz finally remembered. "Yup, you are, and this kind man over here decided to kidnap us," I said gesturing to Jim.
"Oh, Tomiolo..." said Fawaz who suddenly trailed off with a frown, " I wasn't supposed to know that."
Tomiolo - glad to be able to put a name to that blue eyed man- exclaimed, "You aren't supposed to know my name, no one is except for ones on the good side. Have you been a spy or something? Eisha didn't know herself, although what if she was faking it? I'm thinking out loud now, got to stop that."
Fawaz defended himself, "I overheard your conversation with someone one day and remembered your name!"
"Doesn't matter much anymore, got to get you two to the kingdom before the end of this week," Tomiolo said in a determined tone.
Fawaz and I looked at each other both with panicked expressions, thinking the same thing. We were in deep deep trouble.
Tomiolo went up to Fawaz and untied him from the tree, then tied his hands together, obviously not trusting him. Fawaz exclaimed, looking offended, "You trust EISHA more than me?"
Tomiolo sighed and said, " Well although I'm extremely creeped out by the fact that you two haven't tried to kill me yet but you knew my name somehow and that is just plain creepy... so I don't really trust you. Anyways I have to call Banto over here, BANTO! BANTO!"
The younger version of Tomiolo literally appeared out of thin air and saluted, "Yessir I'm here!"
"We're going to make out way out of this place and out of the forest now. Give me rope to tie Eisha's hands together too, because I lost hers somewhere back in the other part of the forest," Tomiolo grimly said.
He still didn't trust me, and we still have to convince him that we're on his side or somehow escape them. I felt his hands circle my wrists and bringing them together behind my back, tying them up. He made me stand next to Fawaz and started whispering to Banto, obviously about how they were going to get us deeper into trouble.
I felt something hit me in the shin and jumped a little, thinking it was a creature of some sort. I looked to my right where the hit had come from and saw Fawaz's face in very close proximity to mine, he whispered, "We go with them for this first day until they get us out of the forest and then run away somehow, okay? This is going to be really hard but when I hit my heels together five times in a row it means that we have to start to think about escaping, so keep your eyes on me at all times. And here's the most important part of all- "
"HEY! Stop whispering to each other right now!" Banto yelled all of a sudden.
We jumped away from each other and fell down on the ground. We weren't able to get up because of our hands. Tomiolo came up to me with a frown and hauled me up, when I looked at Fawaz he was also in a similar position as me with Banto on his side. "No more talking you two, I'll keep you two as separate from each other as possible from now on! Banto, you go with Fawaz first and I'll come on the same route as you after five minutes."
Fawaz gave me a helpess look and walked away from me, being dragged by Banto.
We were in deep trouble, even deeper than before. What Fawaz was going to tell me before he got rudely cut off by Banto was probably crucial informationi that I would be deprived of for a while, if not forever. Plus, now we won't really be able to escape, I'm on my own now.
On my own. Alone, in a world I still didn't know much about. The seriousness of this situation hit on me and my mind was trying to think of ways to escape from Tomiolo and somehow get back with Fawaz, but it refused to cooperate with me. I could think of nothing.
"So you going to talk or do something as we wait five minutes? You look like you're worlds away," said Tomiolo in a slightly cheerful tone which had a stark contrast to what I was actually going through at the moment.
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