~ Where am I!? H–How am I still breathing? Is this because of the potion.
Ender looks at his body which was floating in nowhere of space. He looks at the stars which were far away in the void.
~ It seems like the potion is not just allowing me to breathe but it somehow made my body resistant to outer space.
Ender's eyes fall at the strange man who was calmy standing in space like he was used to this, he glanced at him. Making his shoes direction towards Ender as he started walking towards him. Walking in void of space with shoes clicking on soundless nothing.
" You want to know everything."
The man with calm tone, glaring at Ender.
~ It's true. I was always fond of mystery, fantasy... But I also believed it could never be real. I want to know, l want to learn, I always starved for knowledge but Harry said,"Knowledge always comes with a cost. With it, the way you look at world changed. There is no going back when you once know it."
Ender tried to spoke but he can't, maybe he wasn't sure at himself.
" Well... Let's start from the very beginning."
The man interrupted his thoughts. As he raise his hand and the space shifted and they were now in front of Earth.
" H– How? Earth wasn't this huge. W– We study, we learned. It should be planet size. It looks like it almost a star size."
" What you study is what we wanted you to, not just you, all of this world."
~ I can't understand this. My mind was starting to have headache because the thing you believed your whole life was fake.If someone was just telling me this as a joke. I wouldn't argue nor mind it, but I'm seeing this with my own eyes. Or this an illusion. A dream like I experience before, this can't be real.
" Why?"
Ender wanted to say more, but he couldn't.
" Because this is our job. And for your own safety."
" Safety from whom?"
" There are many things continuously trying to evade your world. Our job is to contain those evaders. For example what you were experiencing was the work of that thing in you. My job was to separate that thing from you, from your soul."
" Soul? What do you mean? How even that thing managed to get in my soul in first place?"
Ender replied with nervous, awe expression.
" It can, basically it is one of their properties."
" Explain me everything from head to toe."
" If you agree to join us. Then I will obviously."
~ I can't make a decision right now. I just can't. Please just end.This is indeed real Ender. Huh?
Ender looks at man frightened.
" Y– You can read my thoughts and manipulate them. W– What are you? Who are you?"
" Well just think of us as an Astran"
" Astran?"
" In this world. No one is human. No one was human."
" The f**k you mean."
He said with angry, mixed up tone.
" You all are sealed, everyone is sealed. The ones who awaken are known as Astran."
The man said while continuing.
" It is all I can tell you right now, if you want to know more then you will have to join us."
~ My mind was going insane, as if I would lose myself. Why? Why won't it end?
" Take time young man."
~ As I feel fall to oblivion.
The space shifted as Ender was laying on the ground near the waterfall as the man walked away to the dense forest, nowhere to be seen.
*****
" Ah! Damn it."
Zack couldn't sleep. As the place wasn't comfortable for him. But also Ruis who was beside him was sleeping like he hasn't slept for days. His snoring sounds all over the tent.
~ This idiot drunk to much today.
Zack went outside for some fresh air. As he stretched his back.
~ Wait, where's Ender. That idiot was supposed to checked us.
He looked around the whole camp but couldn't find him.
" I should check the waterfall area."
He mutters to himself.
~ Well the drunk is finding the sober. Wow, once in a century.
Zack thought while going to waterfall.
He went to the waterfall shore where Ender was laying down in ground.
" What?"
Zack looked at him with confused expression.
He picked him up, as they started walking to the camp.
" Damn!.You're heavy."
Zack spoke to him while carrying on his back.
As they reached the camp, he layed him down to ground while sweating.
" You have to pay me for this."
As Zack grinned.
As he was drying his sweat with cloth. A hand calmy placed behind.
Zack turned around to saw Misha who was standing there.
" Whoa! You scared me off."
" Ah sorry, my mistake, by the way what are you doing here."
Zack move a little side for Misha to saw Ender who was laying on the ground unconscious.
She went to him as soon she saw him and started tidy the dirt from his face. Her face with worried look.
" What happened to him?"
" I don't know, he was laying on the ground beside the waterfall. "
" It looks like he has been stressing about something."
" Must have been thinking of a fantasy book or mystery. He just him."
Suddenly a familiar voice came from the tent.
" Who are you talking to Zack?"
As Misha came out of the tent, rubbing her eyes.
In an instant, Zack expression become awe and shocked. As he looked where the other Misha was with Ender but there was no clue for her now. He pointed his finger at Misha then to the place where Ender was laying with other Misha there.
As Misha glanced on Ender she went towards him. Ender was repeating few words unconsciously.
" Astran."
" Astran."
" Astran."
" What is happening?"
Misha looked at Zack with confused expression.
" I – I don't know?. Moments before, Y – Your form, your voice type of girl were talking to me right now and when you came, she just disappeared."
" You have drunk to much today."
She said with irritated but soft tone.
" Maybe, I should go to sleep."
As he started walking towards the tent.
" Oh wait, about this guy. I'm taking him with me."
As he placed him on his back and walked towards the camp slowly, because it was hard to handle an young man unconscious.
While Misha was looking at them with confused expression. As she scratches her hair before going to her tent.