The journey of a walker

Darkness is the only thing he manage to see for a long time, it's better that way the last trip he made things went south too fast not knowing exactly what happened there, he just knew that he had done something that they had liked at all and ended up having to make a long and persistent battle against them, In the end he left there and to add insult to injury, the trip was not at all smooth, being too hectic for himself and harder than usual, and he does not expect to repeat that experience.

He opens his eyes and the first thing he sees is a great infinity of stars and each one that crowns the moon at the top with its beautiful brilliance welcoming them to this new planet. It is to be appreciated that he has a beautiful view of the stars and the moon compared to the last place he was, in those accursed lower levels of an ecumenopolis, now he understood perfectly well why it is not convenient to have for one of those horrible things that not even the light of the star of the accursed world could see, And end up in a civil war for something he don't know did at those levels, but it's not something that brute force, great violence and tactical and strategic moves wouldn't solve.

Leaving that bad experience completely aside, he stared at the night sky, the more he observed the moon and the stars that crown it, a strange sensation invaded him, he felt relaxed, the night was calm, the singing of some nocturnal animals, all this was so... Calm as a dream, his being simply told him to stay here, enjoy the night and free himself from the heavy burden that his armor has on him that for a long time has carried him everywhere, that relief in a part of him wanted to at least rest from it.

But he refused to do it, even though the tranquility and beauty of the night implore him to do so, he is still in an unknown world, his senses, his experience and his long training told him that he must keep a watchful eye on his surroundings, because even in the most beautiful places that exist, there is always something that could be stalking him. But also, given to his own laziness to do so, it is not as simple as taking off a glove and voila.

He gets up from his place despite the protests that he wants to stay for a while longer, yes but he must move as soon as possible and look for a place to stay. He sees his surroundings and well, it is no more different from other worlds he has been in the past and this one would be quieter, or so it seemed. Now him going to need to guide in this world and find at least one quiet place to settle, especially if it hidden.

Time he just needed to check... The systems of his armor, damn the moment when his systems disabled and especially the situational capability systems, which are the compass, night vision, among others. But at least he did not seem to be in a dangerous situation for now and on top of that he has been in worse situations before, but he will not be able to listen to music for his trip and he completely hated being in a situation that is perfect for having an enjoyable time to listen music.

Leaving that detail aside, he begins to take his first steps in this new world without concentrating too much on his surroundings since there is something that keeps him thinking and that is exactly how he came to deactivate the systems of his armor.

He has various ideas of what could have been the reason that it deactivated by his arrival in extremis, but he did not feel that he had given any blow at the arrival, another possibility was that there could have been an anomaly that deactivated them. They will be elements or unknown matter that interfere like that... It was a strange place where he arrived for the first time since began his journey and the only thing, he could say about that place was as if he had stepped into a strange surrealist painting like the ones who a friend of his family made in the past. Thanks to that thought, a chill run through him: he did not want to have a problem again, of being able to find whether he was in the real world or not, and especially of that feeling that there was something watching him.

Returning once again to the real world, look around and analyze the place where it is, it is a long plain decorated with some scattered trees, but infinite fields of green pastures accompanied and decorated with flowers of many colors, despite how simple and mundane it is shown, it is a very beautiful landscape, With the moonlight and the accompaniment of the starlight’s, they give a dreamlike landscape and a little feeling told him that there is something that is beautifying even more than it actually is, and if he could would take a picture of it. But one thing, one thing is clear: once again, it must remember that one is in an unknown world that one does not yet know what may be in store for him.

He walks for several hours without an apparent direction but he didn't care much about all this being that he would prefer to see what surprises this world is going to stop him and he would lie if he doesn't feel a little excited, when he takes a quick look at the sky he notices that apparently the first lights of the day begin to make an appearance, Well, at least he got to enjoy the beautiful night that he was lucky enough to at least admire. Having a little curiosity, he looks where they are coming from the east, well a point to see that the star of this world rises on the same horizon as his home world, in addition to showing from the distance various mountains in the distance and one is alone.

He walks on a small slope on the ground and ends up falling on his face against luckily avoiding getting hurt, he gives a slight snort and a small smile under his helmet at how ridiculous it was. He turns his back and looks at the sky as the night would soon disappear, under his helmet he breathes a sigh of relaxation and sits down in the place where he is to watch the sunrise.

As it is with the night this one looks with great beauty, the vivid golden colors that illuminate the horizon that feeling had returned and once, this display of beauty is beyond the unusual, that it happened once may be a coincidence, but twice that could no longer be a coincidence, In his memory came of having read some of those old records about the different expeditions that his people made, he does not know completely if they have already done them again or he still does not have the luxury of allowing something like this, but it is already a point and apart in addition to the fact that he did not want to remember again... Those events that occurred before he left, quickly getting those thoughts out of his head, and avoiding damaging his mental health only one thing came to his mind and that is that he must move on.

In the time that he walks and observes his surroundings at least it did not seem that he was near any civilization for now or perhaps he ended up in a prehistoric world, if so he must be somewhat careful with interacting with the locals whether they see him as something hostile and attack him or there are those cases where he is seen as a god, that gave him a slight chill for thinking something like that, he wouldn't want to be the object of veneration at all and especially when those incessant conflicts start just because of a difference of interpretation or anything. That is especially worse when the religion practiced is a good-hearted one and gives true teachings to others only to be destroyed by those who supposedly follow him only to prove the complete opposite of what they preach, that is definitely for him the worst kind of hypocrisy there is, but he is also not the best one to point out something like that given his not very good record in almost all of his life.

Leaving aside his long ramblings he sees in the distance apparently that he is near the edge of a forest and in just a few moments finally the systems of his armor are activated, he stops and gives an in-depth review of each and every one of the systems there and check their correct functioning, showing all the systems are active and ready to be used and luckily he didn't have to use the armor repair systems.

He deactivates the review system and with a long sigh he starts heading to the outskirts of the forest we will have to see what can be in store for him there, when he reaches the edge he hears something in the distance and this does not please him in the least and the general appearance of the place did not help too much if he is completely honest. He looks elsewhere to see if there is a high point that can give him a reference of the area and the size of the forest, but seeing that there is nothing that can help him he only had to enter inside, before doing so he prepares some battle equipment that he has on top of him and begins to enter the interior of the forest.

The appearance of this place does not help at all, of large trees that even though the light of dawn illuminates the skies here is like a patch of darkness that dominates every corner of this place, with large and thick trees that cover that place, the sickly green of the moss that grows in the place and the worst part, the distant cries of the animals that inhabit this place. It keeps abreast of everything and every possible noise that could represent some kind of danger, its sensors detected movement but most of them were from animals that did not present a danger, but some of the creatures that one of those was able to capture, was a bird with the body of a reptile that would disappear behind some bushes, but others of them were normal as far as he could tell, soon his sensors pick up something very different, behind him something is following him and stalking him, seeing an imminent danger he unsettles his war hammer and hears some twigs on the ground break behind him.

Without thinking about it, he turns around very quickly ready to defend himself from whatever is stalking him, but his reaction changed instead of tensing up, he only ends up feeling great confusion, the creature before his eyes is made of wood and lacked any pupils in his eyes and his mouth despite having wooden teeth look sharp to tear the flesh of his prey. He had never seen a type of creature made entirely of wood and several questions arose as to how exactly these things have managed to survive, soon his sensors detected two others that were approaching his two sides, thanks to this warning he returns to his senses and gets into a defensive position, while that creature growled at him he simply returned it with his own while taking slow steps backwards.

Soon the moment is given, one of them tries to attack him, but he quickly manages to grab him and the second one throws himself against him, without wasting a single moment he uses the one he has grasped and uses it as a mace and attacks the other making them end up fragmented, the last one began to retreat and runs after the trees disappearing from sight, He breathes a sigh of relief and re-hooks his war hammer to his hip, looks at the remains of the other two that were torn down, and out of curiosity approaches the remains of the creatures. He bends down and picks up of the fragments giving them a look at the shards, they are no different from the common wood of the trees, they did not seem especially hardy. This only makes him wonder if this kind of serious species really should not have been able to survive its environment.

But suddenly the fragment that he had in his hand for some reason flies out of his hand, look where the fragment went, he gets up and observes what happens, he just made this world weirder than ever, the fragments come together with a strange green aura and little by little the figures of the creatures were reshaped, The sensors start to detect movement, much more movement that is going full speed in its direction.

"You got to be a kidding me.

Without thinking twice he runs at full speed in any direction that can take him away from this gigantic horde that is chasing him and it doesn't help that he can hear the howls and the gigantic amount of footsteps coming from behind him, he sees that his sensors tell him that they are dividing into two more groups on each side of him, With a quick glance on each side of him they effectively follow him sideways and apparently several were going as fast as possible to the front, it seems that they are going to try to surround him and catch him, he is not going to give them that opportunity at all and he does not have time to stay and fight with them.

The creatures that were on each side begin to converge towards him, a group on the right tries to attack him, one of them throws himself at him, avoids being taken by one of his legs and with a quick movement unhooks his hammer, hitting the nearest one with a powerful blow and another that follows him is stepped on with great force, one of them backs up to avoid being hit. But it is a distraction the group throws itself at him, jumps up and shrugs his legs avoiding one of them grabbing him by his leg. He crushes him with another fence, swings his hammer to shreds another one, and before a third escapes grabs him by the head, with a quick calculation he finds a weak spot in the left line of the creatures in front. He throws it hard towards that line, these not being able to dodge in time given the speed, one of them is strike and this causes a domino effect where to end up colliding and tripping over each other creating an opening in the line.

Seeing the opportunity he has, he quickly takes a turn on that side, the creatures try to grab him, he successfully dodges them and runs while dodging the different trees on his way, his sensors show him that he is already moving away from the herd and is getting them to lose their trail as long as those things don't smell the metal or him. He began to slow down, and his sensors no longer detect any more movement of the herd near him, but he hears the howls in the distance and still has a chance to find him, for now it is better to cover ground as possible that can separate him from those creatures.

With the necessary distance covered, he lightens his pace as he has at least managed to get far enough, even so, he still is on alert, this place could give him unpleasant surprises given the last two creatures he saw, there could be much more dangerous things here. On the walk that gives with the occasional noise of other animals in the distance something begins to change, the presence of other animals declines for a strange reason.

For a moment he sees in another direction where he is walking there is something in the distance of the forest, he activates the telescopic sights, he puts his gaze back there and notices that apparently it is the end of the forest, with relief he was finally going to be able to at least go out and see what is going to be in store for him beyond this place and he heads there, a peculiar thing came up as he got closer, he began to notice that there seemed to be something there like some kind of structure.

When he comes out of the forest he stops completely and sees a kind of ruins, from top to bottom he tries to identify them to the possible form that they once had, and apparently it was a castle or at least it was one if his assumption is correct, but one thing is clear to him at least this world is not in prehistory, Now a part of it if his curious to know who were the builders of that place, but it will be for more than that. On approaching the place, the castle it has built around a ravine, and this may present a good defensive position given the forest around it and the ravine, but from there if they cut off their means of communication with the outside, the place it would completely isolate from the others.

Leaving aside his ramblings about the place he takes a closer look and sees that it seems to be on the side of the castle, due to the lack of a form of main entrance, to his left he sees a wooden bridge, but it is in another ravine that has no idea how to go there and is not suitable to support it, He looks to his right apparently there is a stone bridge but it did not look in good condition, when he saw the edge of the precipice at least it did not seem to be very deep in case it of fall, but it would hurt if it falls there, he looks in the direction of the bridge and approaches to make some checks, the diagnosis he gives is beyond the fact that time and vegetation have taken their toll it seemed that it can still sustain him as long as he did not exert too much pressure.

He looks around making sure that there is no danger in the middle of crossing the bridge, when he sees that there seems to be no threat nearby and his sensors do not detect anything dangerous, he approaches the bridge, lies on his face and begins to drag allowing all his weight to be distributed over a greater area, luckily, his armor prevented him from being hurt by his tactical vest.

The action works and he manages to cross without much problem to the other side, he gets up from the place and removes some of the dust that accumulated on his vest, opens the holographic screen and takes some notes to do some tasks that he will have pending and one of those is to see how he can fix the bridge, he deactivates it and fixates on the ruined castle, looking for an entrance to get into. He sees a hole in the wall being a bit small for him, he bends down and gets inside the castle sees around him that he is in a corridor and his condition looks no better than his outside.

Leaving those thoughts completely aside, it's time to explore this place and see what things it can tell you, it goes more through the more or less eastern area of the castle and at certain points it stopped because it showed damage not entirely caused by time but from battle, It was more noticeable in the part of the roof at least in this part of the castle that used siege projectiles that collapsed the structure, this place saw combat action at least within its walls and already with this it gives an indication that at least those who built this castle faced the war.

He enters through a secondary entrance and arrives at the main hall of the castle, there are two things that capture his interest and that is the two large tapestries that crown the entrance by the stairs, he positions himself in position to see them from the front, the first one that he notices is one of a precise golden color that represents quite well the sunlight that illuminates this world, The other represents a deep navy blue that represents the veil of night that covers this world, both perfectly represent two symbols that are the native star of this system and the moon that accompanies them in the dreamy nights, but it is not the only thing it has, there are two other symbols that these long tapestries show and they are those two beings that are represented with wings and horns.

Perhaps they could have been ancient shields representing those who ruled this ancient castle, reminding him a bit of the ancient symbols of a bygone era, another option is that they were the symbols two unifying houses that were formed into one, but that would normally create a single shield and symbol for both houses, another option is that they represented a god/goddess of the day and the sun, the night and the moon, and more hypotheses he has inside his head regarding those symbols but receives little evidence. Before continuing, he reactivates his holographic screen and writes down another task that he has pending, he approaches one of the tapestries, grabs it and gives it a small check, he is not an expert in looms it would be, but these have an unparalleled quality that despite time still is in particularly good condition.

Carefully leaving the loom, he takes a route up the stairs and sees what more surprises may have in store for him, he walks through the long corridors, takes a few laps around the place and finds some traps that strangely are not very dangerous, but, to play a joke, he arrives at a large gate and has the idea that this could be the throne room or so it seems, he opens the gates and when he looks inside it is indeed the throne room.

At the back of the place there are two thrones with tapestries of the same color as the one in the room where the previous ones are and they give the same representation of the sun and the moon as of the same shades of color, this seems to indicate that whoever has led this castle was an ancient diarchy, perhaps the sun and the moon represented these two houses that made a dynastic union or at least they were in the given past.

Looking at the place in more detail than the structural damage of this place like other parts was not entirely caused by time, but these here the damage that was done was with another type of weaponry, it comes to take a better look at one of the roofs that collapsed, These seemed to have been destroyed not by artillery shells but by something else, but he can't explain the fact, thanks to seeing through the ceiling he notices that the sun is at the zenith is not accurate but tells him that it is noon. That takes him a bit of a surprise, he thought that it should be late or something like that because he got into a very wooded area that does not allow sunlight to enter well, in the end old sayings are right, when you are discovering something, new time passes very slowly.

Seeing on the other side he sees two towers that flank the structure and he gets an idea of what it can become, he goes in the direction of the right door, he bends down a little and opens it, the first thing he sees are the stairs and simply when he sees the size that they have, only the only thing that comes to his mind is simple, these scalds are not big enough for his feet, leaving aside his complaint he checks the structure and it seemed that it could hold him well, then turning sideways using a little the wall as a handle begins his strange adventure through small stairs, with dreams, hopes and a little luck he finally manages to reach the end of the stairs, He opens the small door and has to contort himself a little to be able to squeeze into a not very large door.

It has several pieces of furniture that the weather was not at all kind, unlike the tapestries or at least for some the ones could see in good condition, the place is a fairly modest room perhaps with a bit of luxury, but in the end quite modest, thanks to one rays of light that hit something that is on the floor and shines a little, curious he gets a little closer, grabs it and removes some of the dust it has, relaying itself to be a full-length mirror.

He sees his reflection and from it he sees his armor that is black like the space itself, a somewhat questionable color but at least it showed its effectiveness in many situations that needed to be hidden between the shadows and the darkness, returning once again to look at the mirror he checks a little his helmet that shows his snout, But it does not allow us to see any of his characteristics, and on his chest he has his tactical vest that is covered by a large number of bags and in addition to having a tactical belt with more bags, on his right side he carries his war hammer and from a small silhouette can see the gunstock of his weapon that is on his back. He looks at himself for a more moments in the mirror with false vanity when he makes poses and leaves the mirror in the place where he found it, placing it carefully, he approaches one of the windows of the room.

At least it allows him to see the good magnitude of the place and he sees that there is a river that is on the east side of the castle that will be for now a good advantage without having to go to another point to acquire water, he looks through another of the windows he sees only nothing but the forest and it is not exactly small and that is only going to give him a lot of problems in the future, for a few moments something caught looked as if by accident he had seen a reflection of light and he would swear he came down that big mountain, he takes a look at its summit and it looked like he is seeing a city there.

That is something that you don't see every day, he uses light filters to see better and that the light does not bother him and he looks back at the top of the mountain, there is indeed a city, but the highlight is the castle that is as if it was on the edge of the abyss and also that it is in good condition different from where he is, Underneath his helmet he found an inhabited planet and now his great curiosity told him to try to go and see who the inhabitants of this world might be, but first he had to observe them from a safe distance and see if they become hostile or not.

With no time to lose, he goes once again to the exit of the room, seeing those stairs with contempt, he begins once again to descend them carefully, he is finally about to finish the last flight of these stairs but bad luck smiles on him and he ends up slipping, rolling, for the last one he falls face first against the floor, He gives a grunt more of annoyance than pain he rises only to give a snort of anger, with his pride a little hurt he gets up from his place, wipes a little of the dust that stuck to him and luckily he didn't leave a hole like the last time this happened.

He turns to look at the exit of the throne room based more or less on a mental map of the shape of the castle that he saw from the tower, he gets an idea of where to go, he takes the path that leads him to the west wing of the castle that seemed to lead him to the main entrance of the castle, As he goes down the path, he goes down the stairs to the main hall, he goes through the different entrances and makes a mental note to give him a visit for later, as he advances through the different parts of the castle he passes through a gate.

He arrives at the main entrance of the castle and stops to see a strange sculpture in the center of the small room, he approaches this sculpture and touches it for a few moments as he walks around it, the computer system gives him some analysis beyond some curious symbols that he has there is no more that he can discern of its purpose, he leaves the compound, focuses his gaze on the lonely mountain, seeing the big city there, and well, some questions arise about him, exactly how did that place come to be built? But putting that aside for a moment, he sits down on the grass and starts thinking about what his next course might be.

The first thing he has is to establish a camp inside the castle, prevent the entry of those strange creatures of the forest and establish some access points for him, the second is to start an exploration of the forest deeper as a possible exit from it without having to return by the same route, The third thing is to find some information regarding the species that inhabits this world, fourth to find a possible route that can take to that city and acquire intelligence information.

With the four options made, start to see the viability and what will be the priority:

The first choice would seem to be the most important, although since he entered the castle grounds, he has not seen those creatures enter and they always stay away from here, with this he can conclude that for now it is not a priority.

The latter needs to explore the wooded area in depth to have landmarks and find exits that are not dead ends.

The third thing may be that the castle still retains its library and can give it a visit to acquire more information, although there are several main problems, they are the language, the writing and the time when it was all written, although it is possible that the castle has it will have to deal with translations and it would not help that they are outdated and for now it does not have many options to go elsewhere.

The fourth goes hand in hand with the second, there is no more science behind it, and will need to do general planning if want to do something like that.

He decides and it is to start a deeper exploration of the forest and start putting landmarks and find an end, as they were still early, he gets up from his place, stretches his neck and his limbs. The path he will take will be along the river and see where it could take him, being that he also noticed that that city has a waterfall and has the feeling that this river is born from that mountain. He follows the course of the river, turns to look at the entrance of the forest, takes a deep breath, prepares himself and begins his journey into the forest once more.

In the interior of the forest as move further and further away from the castle grounds the activity of the creatures that inhabit these forests became greater and greater, that castle has something that prevents the creatures from entering its grounds or at least those that could represent a serious danger because its sensors detected some that do not pose a threat. He looks from one side to the other by the grunts of several of them, everything would be momentarily silenced by a powerful distant roar and the sky was gradually darkening, he glances at the sky and it seems that a storm was coming soon, he begins to look in his pockets for a poncho that he has that will allow him to cover himself from the rain, As he tries to memorize where he put it, his sensors detected motion and a large one going in his direction.

Without thinking twice he unhooks his war hammer but before he can take it he ends up having to dodge an attack by throwing backwards and this causes his hammer to fall, he rises to see the creature that attacked him once again a rather unique creature presents itself to him that is totally and completely different from the last ones that chased him, It is a larger creature and is made up of several parts of other animals, such as a tail of some kind of insect, patagium-type wings, the body of a large predator with dangerous claws, large ears, and menacing eyes that stares at it fiercely.

"This forest is getting more and more interesting," he said with a smile under his helmet.

That creature quickly approaches, uses its tail and attacks him with its sting, but it just doesn't move, when connecting, it only causes the stinger to be damaged with a quick movement before it escapes, grabs it, pulls it with great force in its direction, connects a good blow on one of its legs, This causes a howl of pain from the creature, he exerts another blow on one of his wings avoiding breaking it but hurting it so that he cannot use it immediately, it is left lying on the ground unable to move because of the pain, he does not want to kill it given how fascinate he is, but he does not have time to continue dealing with it. He starts running in the direction of where his hammer is, in one swift movement he grabs it and hooks it back to his hip and moves away from the presence of the creature, getting lost in the vegetation.

Once at a safe point, he returns once again to look in his pockets for the poncho and finally manages to find it, he puts it on just at the moment when the rain became more intense, he continues on his way while he is aware of some possible movement, luckily he detects almost no movement making the environment calmer at least outside the rain, That gives him some relief and taking advantage of the quiet moment proceed to look for the mapping systems of his armor and give them a review of how it has gone, when seeing him has been more or less marked the point of entry he had and the areas where he had his intense encounter with those wooden creatures, he began to walk with difficulty, he deactivates the map seeing his surroundings again, the river began to overflow and the place where he is begins to get bogged down.

He leaves the path of the river through a part that is no longer covered with mud while he maintains the course, the storm continued to worsen thanks to the lack of grass and his high weight began to cost him to be able to walk on the ground thanks to the strong mud that is generated, it was not the first time it happened to him and it was something recurring but it was never friendly to walk through one, especially when it turned into a muddy hell. With difficulty he stops for a moment to take a breath and see a fork of the river going to two sides, one was of a smaller flow and the other was much larger and seeing the mud that he must pass he looks at the smaller flow giving another breath he goes again.

Thanks to the fact that he took the side with less water flow as well as had a greater presence of grass helps him to be able to get out of the mud and return to a normal gear, on the way luckily, he has not found anything that could represent a danger given the intense rain that falls on him. In the distance he notices that the forest was beginning to end, he finally finds a starting point, with a smile under his helmet he gives a renewed march towards the exit of this infernal place. He arrives at a small clearing in the forest that split by the river, looks up at the sky and tries to figure out what time it might be, giving an idea that it is already late.

He notices something in the distance, stops for a few moments and uses the telescopic sights, there is a village on the other side of the forest he has some extra questions about why there is one so close to a very dangerous forest like this, but he is not going to get into that matter for now and seeing that the rain also affects there it is a good opportunity to at least explore the place a bit, Looking at the roads and the infrastructure, all of them have to cross the river on foot, but seeing the flow of them, one that is near a small park seemed to be the smallest ideal to cross it.

He approaches the outskirts near the edge of the river and gets in, luckily the water only reaches above his knees, he walks on its mud with some difficulty, when he reaches the edge he puts his hands on the ground to give himself a boost, standing up again he looks at a small building on the other side of the park that apparently still has its lights on. There he goes and when he gets closer he looks up and down, it has the appearance of a carousel, the most notable is the two figures that are above the enclosure that are those beings from the tapestries of the castle, but they do not have wings or horns and the other thing to highlight is that the structure itself is not very tall in general and its entrance is quite small.

He approaches the enclosure and bends down putting one of his hands on the ground to give himself stability and look out the right window, the lights being off activates his night vision system and the interior of the enclosure shows that apparently it is a boutique and the work center of the place, among the things he sees are some mannequins that are simply these quadrupedal beings, the intelligent species of the planet only makes things weirder, leaving aside that thought surrounds on the right side of the boutique, stops at another window that shows a dark room and the only highlight is a laundry room, it looks under the door frame there is some light coming in, it surrounds the establishment and finds the window that shows the room that is illuminated.

Although it was almost night and the darkness could help him, he could not get close to the window because there are not enough shadows, an idea comes to him, looking through his pockets, he finds a small mirror relatively to his size, taking small silent steps, he approaches and begins to bring the mirror closer to the window trying to prevent them from seeing it, Looking sideways and placed in an indicated position, he sees a little bit of the interior that is a kitchen, but he does not see the owner of the place. Tilted a little more, the mirror sees something that out of the corner of his eye, tilts it again and manages to see who the intelligent beings of this world are.

When he sees them he looks at them with surprise and an incredible feeling of tenderness when he sees them, they are quadrupeds so he can say both share a coat of light gray color his difference is the mane that they both have, the older one of a moderate indigo and the younger grayish mulberry with pale pink and light grayish stripes, the color of the eyes of the eldest are moderate blue and the youngest of Harlequin pale and light grayish, or that is what the data provided by his armor indicates, he must thank whoever has implemented the color identification system, but one thing caught his attention and that is the horns that both have on their heads, they match the tapestry but they lack the wings, with this came more questions and seriously that there are already too many that he has, being that he does not have hands, how exactly can they manipulate the objects to build all this?

When he looks at the older one he sees that a strange aura of light cornflower blue emanated from his horn and began to levitate several objects specifically, plates that he cleans, this leaves him with a great surprise, it is telekinesis and apparently it was natural being that that horn seemed to be part of both, this answers at least that question of how they could move objects and it came to his mind if there were others like her, but only with wings and one without either, that makes him have more questions than ever in his mind, he seriously has to stop, without realizing it.

Sweetie belle looked at the window with boredom, but she sees a shiny thing that is reflecting the inside of the kitchen, but it is not the window, it is something else that is outside. She knows and sees that there is something that reflected and that turns to look at her and in a simple blink a lightning strikes illuminating it for a moment saw it and terrified by that presence.

"By Celestia!" She turns to look at Sweetie. "Sweetie do not do that please." She notices that Sweetie fell on his rump in fear and pointed her helmet at the window.

"There's something that's watching us."

Worried about the occurrence, Rarity goes to the window and tries to see if there was anything looking around the sides of the window up, down, in the distance, but there did not seem to be anything there.

"Sweetie, there's nothing around, are you sure saw something?" Sweetie pulls herself together.

"I'm sure I saw something, there was something shining in the window, like a mirror and could see the kitchen and only for a moment when the lightning shone on... There was a strange thing that had no face that the mirror made shine. "

Rarity thinks about it for a few moments still can't match, she sees a reflection in the window, she turns to look where she is coming from, it is from the work room and one of her mirrors receives some light from the kitchen and also a mannequin is also reflected overlapping each other, it seemed that Rarity solved it.

"Sweetie dear, it was just a reflection of one of my mirrors with a mannequin. He points with his helmet to the workroom where the mirror and the mannequin are.

She looks in the direction where Rarity is pointing, but this did not convince Sweetie.

"But Rarity, what I saw wasn't a mannequin at all, it was actually more terrifying.

"Sweetie, I can't go out there, there's a rain that can ruined my hair and a lot...mud."

Sweetie sighs, knowing that she will not be able to convince her sister, especially when there is every chance that Rarity's beauty will tarnished.

"Okay, maybe I just saw things, nothing else.

Rarity, seeing her sister's mood, could not help but see her that way, her sister, puts her helmet under her snout.

"Sweetie honey, if you want tomorrow after school, I'll help you look for clues and maybe you'll get your cutie mark along with Apple Bloom and Scootaloo in Fantastic Creature Investigators.

That manages to revive Sweetie Belle's mood.

"Really!"

Rarity nods in response, giving him a smile and making him her promise.

"Cross my heart, hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye." She ends up hurting her eye a little from biting it, she massages the place a little.

Sweetie gives her a hug.

"Thank you, Rare.

Both sisters break away from the little hug they both had, go upstairs together talking and smiling with each other and Sweetie with excitement for tomorrow.

Far from the boutique, but vigilant of all possible movement in the place and seeing that the lights on the lower floors went out and the ones upstairs came on, he breathes a sigh of relief being that it did not seem that they were going to look for him, seeing for a few more moments the sky the rain did not stop stopping, but the night already dominated the landscape once again, with his gaze he rests on the largest building that is not far from where it is and goes straight there taking better advantage of the veil of the night.

He approach a few houses on the way he doesn’t need to investigate the residents anymore for now, as approach the main building either see anything more special and a little further to the left there is a statue and with curiosity he go to see it and beyond that it doesn't seem to have anything special or inscriptions, when he looks at another direction with some surprise he sees a building with a very strange roof, like the shape of a hat, curious he goes to the place.

When he gets closer, it is indeed a hat but the guy he has could not place it, but there was something telling him that it was possibly for jokes and the other one, according to what he can see on the main sign of the front, apparently is a beauty salon even so peculiar and the other one already with a more mundane aspect, simply a kind of restaurant except for the tables outside that seem to be mushrooms, a little close by their looked like a market and a book store according to what he see from the sign outside.

Leaving the two peculiar buildings, he goes on his way to the west where he sees that the small town converges more, looking more closely at the houses, they are apparently made of wood and thatched roofs, being quite thermal in general, if only hoped that they did not get to remove the wood from that cursed forest, because if so, those lumberjacks must give them an extra and big paycheck, he stops for a few moments to look at a couple of stores, one jewelry store, the other apparently a retail stand and the other is not sure what it would be. He continues a little further in the distance he sees some lights on a building in the distance and it is bigger with many others that he has been able to see, he realizes that apparently it is a kind of hospital given to some symbols that suggest it, moving a little further away from the place he finds another smaller building and this time it does have something written but the translation systems cannot identify it, Finally, he sees a tree that looked like it was transformed into some kind of building.

He approaches the place and apparently even the owners of the place had not gone to sleep and taking into account what happened it is better not to get into it, he moves away from the place and sees a small building somewhat more isolated from the rest, he is approached with curiosity to see what it has the first thing he notices is that on the ground there are train tracks, that is already an indication that this society is already an industrial community although it would need to know if they already have internal combustion vehicles, in the distance it hears a whistle and turns back where it came from, in the distance it sees a light approaching where it is, with a good step it gets behind a building hiding in the shadows where there is no light and waits.

The rain was starting to stop the machine stops at the station and only a few sounds coming off the train and he hears some voices coming from the platform, unfortunately he couldn't understand what they were saying, giving a slight glance he sees a family coming out apparently, they were wearing more types of colors and extravagant baste, From what he can identify, they are a family, a very young one looks exhausted and the father carries him on his back. He gives a small smile, they are not so different from his own, he stops looking at them and stands next to the building covered making it impossible to see, the locomotive looks old, but not bad in general and the passenger cars are the ideal size for the inhabitants of this world.

He hears the whistle of the train and the locomotive moved lazily on the tracks, little by little it comes back to acquire more speed, he observes with a slight smile when he sees a very young one snuggling with his mother while rocking him to sleep, already at high speed he begins to head towards a road that is unknown and disappears from his sight on the horizon, he had no more reason to stay here, the clouds began to recede allowing the moonlight to illuminate the small town a little, and he began his last march south.

On his short walk he doesn't find anything interesting beyond a house bigger than usual, possibly belonging to some rich man of the place, he leans in front when he sees a rather peculiar building in the distance that he would swear is a cake, when he approaches the enclosure it is indeed in the shape of a cake, he did not have to be a genius to know what this place specializes in, but it is a very cool and creative way to indicate what it is and specializes, strangely he has the wish that maybe in the future he can try the desserts, but for now he must continue with his task and the last clouds begin to move away leaving the light of the moon visible.

With only one more section left on his way there is nothing else that stands out in the area and he only finds it when he reaches the western edge of the river that he crossed, he sees another building not very large, apparently it is a kind of school, a little closer to there is apparently a mill that connects with the mouth of the lake, He approaches the bridge and it is seen that he has enough resistance to cross it and passes it without too many problems. As he approaches the building and look inside through the windows, it is indeed a school.

He crosses the dirt road he sees that there are trees with strange red fruits hanging over them and a fence that separates the property, he arrives at the farmland, and he had the desire to at least try one of those fruits, but he resisted the temptation that would be stealing the product from someone else. He finally arrives at the entrance of the farm, and it is quite a beautiful place to say a least, the place could just cross the fence without too much trouble.

But now is not the time to continue doing it, it was enough for now and accompanied by the moonlight he looks east in the distance that cursed but fascinating forest, advanced with his heavy and observing once more the beautiful moon reminding him of the times he came to observe it in his old home world and a memory that he treasures, but he just couldn't afford to go back after what he did there.

With his heavy steps he reaches the river with one last look at the farm there, small town, with a smile he ends the experience that he managed to gather, at least superficially, a little information, he gives his look with contempt at that cursed forest, the last border line that divides this small and peaceful town from that forest and its strange creatures and inhaling deeply he is on his way to go once more to the forest knowing what it might bring him there.

In his walk under the veil of night next to the shadows that emanated this forest he hides from most of the predators and avoids having his encounters with them, on the map that is no longer far from the castle, in that case he begins to collect several dry branches and leaves for a fire that he will need to make, as well as checking his physical injuries that are already beginning to feel painful and uncomfortable.

He arrives at the outskirts of the castle and crosses the river being careful not to wet what is on top of him and after doing so he goes inside passing through the main gate, he thinks for a moment which could be the best to stay for the night, one of those two rooms in the towers, but it's a no because of those stairs that made him fall, another option would be the main hall, but he ruled it out given the lack of exits in case of emergency and it was decided to establish it near the river that has the castle that he saw passing through to the east.

Luckily he didn't seem to have activated any trap in the area from what he could say or so it seems, when he arrived at the place he went to a wall, stacked the twigs and dry leaves to prepare the campfire, fiddled a little with the back of his helmet he took off his helmet and left it near the campfire, he feels thirsty and takes out his canteen and consumes the vital liquid inside, giving him a relief of freshness and eliminating his thirst. With his canteen empty he goes to the river to collect water, when he looks at it is crystal clear so much that he can see the bottom of it as well as the fish that swim there, he sees the reflection of the moon as if it were a mirror, he bends down puts his canteen under the water and when it is full he takes a good drink of it again and once again refresh him and getting a little closer to fill it and he puts it at the bottom of the river, it comes out a little more than it should, making the shadow that covered him see his face.

His coat is pure white that contrasts with a short pointed mane of black as the night, his muzzle was of a medium size in length as well as in thickness and a small line that indicates the position of his mouth, in front he has two nostrils not having as such a nose, under his muzzle a black beard like his mane color and in the center of his forehead a black hair that will the top of his muzzle and separating both parts of his face, a standard sight for his own who belong to the same clan. But the noticeable difference he has are two strange black lines in the form of a tribal pattern that pass under his eyes and disappear behind his neck, being an old symbol of what he has achieved so far, his eyes are not especially large, but he has a color that is not at all common that they are violet being a rarity even among his people.

But he saw only a pristine weariness in his features marked by a bygone era, those eyes that could only remember that constant horror day and night, he abandons all thought of himself letting the shadow once again cover him like a veil, and once again his distraction made him forget to take out his canteen, he takes it out and seals it, putting it in place.

Moving away from the crystal clear waters and returning to his little corner hidden from the rest of the world, he takes his place near the campfire, from among one of his pockets he takes out a bar of ferrocerium, behind his belt he places his hand on the sheath of his knife and takes it, placing the bar with the knife begins to create sparks that hit the dry leaves until it catches fire. With that task finished, he puts the bar in its place, looks for some of his rations that he brought with him, cared for and well maintained for long periods of time, he grabs one of these rations and it is stuck with his knife, heats it on the fire and eats it and he does it with some more that he has.

Without eating any more he leaves them for future use, everything he had taken out he keeps in their respective places, he stays there while he watches the fire, the crackling of its sound in an empty place and a light that shows at least his tired face observes the living flame, with fatigue reaching his features a long yawn arises, it's time to get ready for sleep, looking behind his back he takes off his service rifle puts his safety and against the wall, runs his hands on the buckles and locks that hold his tactical vest together and takes them off one by one and when he frees himself he puts it next to his poncho, getting up he takes off his belt and puts it along with the rest.

Then came the most complicated and time-consuming part of all, which is to take off his armor, he places his hands on some front points of his armor, which are small holes that he presses and rotates, they are a security system that holds the front piece together, a hissing sound is heard and the front armor of his armor separates without falling, he takes it off his back and for a moment gives it a look and under his tactical vest there are several metal blocks covering his torso, he carefully puts it near a small corner.

After that, he places his hand on the part of his right shoulder in the same way, he also gets into some small holes, presses and turns the belays and the armor making the same whistle, then another near his elbow and forearm doing the same procedure, emitting a whistle again, with it finished, he removes the armor from his arm and then goes with the other with the same procedure.

With both arms free he makes a few slight movements with them as he frees himself from the weight and especially on his shoulders, it is already revealed a little bit of a light gray gambeson that covers up to his neck except his hands, he sees for a moment his hands and checks to see if he has any small lesson, luckily he has nothing in his palms or in his five fingers, there the black marks on his face make an appearance in his hands. With that he goes with the second part, which is to take off the lower part of his armor.

As the rest goes in parts, starting with his hips that go through the thigh, the second goes from the knee to the ankles and the sabatons are apart, he takes all that off and puts them with the rest. Now came the most complicated part and it was having to remove the one that connects with his back, unlike the others that have simpler lock this one has much more special and various lock given the vital components that it has there.

The first thing he have to do is go to the first dorsal in this one through its opening that has to pull a kind of lever there, then it goes through another integrated in the dorsal middle and finally in the lumbar intermediate, it hears a metallic sound and two handles come out in each area where pull the levers, he takes the two handles and pulls them to each side, then pushes them out and makes a hissing sound, repeated with the other two. With that process done, two last additional levers come out, larger, the first at the top that is on his neck and the other that is at the end of his back, he takes both of them and turns them with the hands of the clock and he can take off the piece of armor, turn it and put it in front of him.

Now to make sure of one last thing to check, look for two openings that have it behind its trapezoids and as with the other pieces it is pressed and rotated from these come out a protrusion that goes through the middle session of the back on each side of the spine being four, he pulls one and takes out a small metal system that contracts and he extend a small mechanical arm that contains a test tube inside of this a dark grey liquid, when he sees that it is fine, he puts it back in its place and checks the others which in total are 8 of them and all are in good condition and puts it with the rest of the other pieces.

With everything done he takes a full look at his gambeson that covered his torso neck and reaches his thighs minus the hands and head that are not protected by the gambeson, this is a piece of clothing above the skinsuit, he sees the buckles he has, he grabs the first one that is on his neck that has a small handle he turns it and pulls them unbuttoning it, he proceeds with the others and takes it off to reveal the last piece. His skinsuit of a white color like his fur that tightens his robust figure here begins his next process, he poses hand in a small system that he has on his right wrist and when he presses it his suit stopped getting his figure and he loosened to the maximum.

He takes it off by means of his head and puts it in a place that does not get dirty by the dust, he is completely naked more than a boxer that he has on him, when he takes a look at his being he has his white fur on top, but what stands out are those black lines that with tribal pattern that cover his body and his tail that is 35% length of his body.

He sits down and checks his feet, which luckily, he did not get a sore on the sole or between his five toes, but if they irritated, he takes his tactical vest, searches his pockets for talcum powder and finds it and applies it to the affected areas. Once this is done, he is going to check his groin, unlike his feet, he created a slight laceration on the right side, here he looks for another object in his vest, a small bottle that applies a foam that allows his wound to close, on the left side he only presents irritation and only uses talcum powder.

With relief he could begin to feel more relieved to get rid of those irritations and a little pain that he has, he gives a long yawn of tiredness that dominates him and puts back on his suit and his gambeson. He goes to the corner where he put all his things, puts his poncho on the floor as a bed, lies on it and puts his vest on the other side like an improvised pillow, with everything done his thoughts gradually began to disappear, soon the world of dreams begins to dominate him and his consciousness disappears from the physical world.

With his arrival in this new world, he took the first step to know what will be in store for him in the future, only time will tell.