374 Out of the tower (1/2)
Taking the first step on this strange footing, I was sure that it would either instantly fail and cause me to fail, or do so only when I would put my trust into Golem and start walking through it. With my shockwave at the tip of my tongue, I crossed the formerly broken floor and arrived back at the open platform, where the princess waited for me with her eyes wide open.
”How did you do that?”
Unable to scream, she had to limit herself to a soft whisper, that would easily escape my attention if not for the predator's mindset making sure to pick up and deliver all kinds of information that my unconscious part of the brain would deem important.
Taking a look around, surprised by her question a bit, I only now realised that what I took for a stable floor, looked just like the hole I used to cross to the other side before! There wasn't even a hint of this platform that the golem created for me ever existing!
”No questions now. We need to hurry to the ground level. This place will collapse soon.”
There was no point in explaining the whole matter to this girl, even if there was any need for it at all. Pushing this matter aside would give me precious time that I needed to come up with a plausible story of what happened on the other side since I doubted that this Golem would allow any of the aboriginals to learn of such kind of complicated and classified matters.
”Get down? And how do you want to do so when the staircase collapsed?!”
Finally gathering the wits to raise her voice, the girl shrank in herself when I weighted my current options and gave her a long, meaningful look. Just when I was about to approach her in order to grab her into my arms and give her a ride of her life, the tower twitched a little, with a big stone slab suddenly growing out of the platform, before most of it got varved out and moved aside, showing the interior of a cosy elevator that I remember seeing in one of the 006 agent Bund movies.
”Just follow me. All your folk should be waking up from their trance soon.”
Just a single look at the walls of the elevator with only a minuscule amount of energy holding them together made me certain that I could break them at any given moment. After all, there was no way I would enter a damned elevator without any insurance when it was made by someone who could potentially target my life!
”Calm the fuck down, you idiot!”
*What's happening?*
”You keep ranting like if everyone in this world wanted to loop your head off. Do you really think that if that thing really wanted to do you harm, it would need to resort to such a silly means? We were right in its part ever since we entered this dimension!”
*Well, I know that but what if it was simply too busy with the ritual? What if it initially wanted me to succumb to the charm and score the princess in order to merge that consciousness of its host with my body?*