After the mud incident that sucked really badly, we managed to find a big barrel with water not far away, and I just jumped in to get the mud off me, which made it murky. Tinker, on the other hand, was cleaning herself by hand, and the wiggling on the chest area made me bend my head slightly to get a better view. She turned in my direction, and I moved my head towards the grass, where I saw Mejni staring at me. It was impossible to know whether he looked pissed or genuinely happy; there was like zero expression. I think being in so much plaster beneath the bandages made it hard for him to make any expression at all. I bent my head slightly to check out the wiggling again, but Tinker turned in our direction again, and I looked down at Mejni.

  "Berk, can you walk away with Mejni for a bit? I need to clean my top!"

  Mejni's eyes widened, and I smiled at Tinker and walked away to the field with him. He tried to muffle his way out, looking in the same direction as Tinker, who did not have anything on her upper body now. Well, she won't let us see them, but should I try for the underboob, nah, she is too far away, and she probably thinks like: I am over 30 now and have gigantic tits that are wiggling a little bit, but not saggy yet type of personality.

  Oh wow! Stella is standing far away, staring at me, glad that she also looks like 30, but she will never let me come up close to her, like resting on all the pain I have gone through...on her chest. Mejni kept staring, making muffled sounds; maybe I should let him try to speak.

  Looked out on the field again, and Stella was now gone, no surprise there in screwing me over and over and over without even giving me clues to anything. Scraped on Mejni's mouth area, removing some bandage, and managed to remove a little bit of plaster, seeing his mouth now.

  "How are you, pal? How do you feel in your body? Should we try to crack the plaster on your body?"

  "Voy a decirle a Tinker que intentaste mirarle el pecho(I am going to tell Tinker you tried looking at her chest)." He uttered, as I had no clue what he was saying.

  I put the plaster over his mouth again, and he kept muffling, so I removed it again to double-check.

  "?Deja de intentar ahogarme humano!( Stop trying to choke me, human!)." He said, and I had no freaking clue what he was trying to say.

  "Hey, what is going on?"

  I turned around, seeing Tinker and Mejni's eyes widen.

  "I think something is wrong with Mejni!"

  "What do you mean?" Tinker asked.

  “él está tratando de jugar con tus pechos. (TINKER! He is trying to play with your boobs.)”

  "Huh, I thought the potion Fanny gave him with the letter E on it would work. She had gotten it from New Hope Town from someone she knew there."

  I just stared at her. Was this meant to fix the speech? I don't understand jack shit what he is saying.

  “Mejni, say Que?” I asked him.

  “?Por qué me preguntas que diga por qué?(Why are you asking me to say why?)

  You have to be fucking kidding with me, I don't even speak Spanish, for god's sake, how am I going to understand him at all now?

  "Tinker, listen to me. Was it maybe three letters, like E-N-G or maybe E-S-P?"

  "Not what I saw, it was just the letter E. Why are you asking? Is it not the language that they speak on Earth that you call the multi-language? Was it English? That was some common language."

  My brain gave up at this moment. Fanny is definitely on my shit list.

  "Yes, Tinker! English, the letter E. There are other languages also, like Espa?ol! The letter E is there, and this Meerkat is speaking Spanish with us, a language we do not understand. Do you think we should try to find someone on this journey who speaks both Spanish and English? Just have someone random travel with us whose only function is to translate. Does that make any sense to you? I do not want someone useless on this journey who is just going to walk around and translate what this cat is telling us."

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  Tinker shrugged her shoulder and walked past me like she didn't care, and continued into the woods. I followed along as we walked toward the train tracks, even though they went up into the sky.

  "Olvídate de la mujer, ella nunca te dejará tocar sus tetas.(Forget about the woman, she will never let you touch her tits.)” Mejni spoke out while giving the stare.

  We had walked for a long while, and I was really hungry for once and needed some water. Not far away, we saw some buildings, the train at the station, and a lot of people gathered around the train. We moved between two larger buildings, coming out into the crowd, with me taking the lead, as Tinker's blonde hair could make someone recognize her, and she stayed close behind me.

  "?Oye, idiota! Pareces tener sed. Si quieres, puedo orinar a través de la protección y tú puedes beberlo. ?Qué dices? (Hey, Idiot! You look thirsty. If you want, I can piss through the protection, and you can drink it. What do you say?)"

  "What is he saying, Berk? Does he have a plan?" She whispered as Mejni wore the biggest grin.

  "I highly doubt he was saying anything important," I whispered back to her as the crowd kept passing through the walk path as we looked around.

  Tinker pushed her head out a bit and saw something far away and kept tapping my chest.

  "We need to move to the end of this pathway. We will come to the camp there, and we need to enter the temple and find the catacombs underneath.

  I turned to her, thinking she must be crazy. I thought we were here to save the citizens from slavery or something and get the hell out of here.

  "Why do you need us to enter whatever is in the camp and enter the catacombs if it even has that?"

  "Because I need to do something important there." She gave a dodgy answer.

  Grabbed her arm, and we went back into the alley.

  "?Sabes que estás actuando de forma más sospechosa que el idiota humano con el que me obligaron a viajar? (You know that you are acting more suspicious than the idiot human they forced me to travel with?)”

  "Yeah, whatever the cat said."

  "Listen, Berk, I need both of you to take me to the catacombs. It is very important that." She kept repeating to us.

  "Does the cat look like it can move and help us. It is a rock handbag; all Mejni can do right now is speak Spanish that we do not understand. So, when you say 'both,' you mean I have to take you there?

  Tinker looked determined in her eyes; it really looked like she wasn't going to drop this plan.

  "Tell me why you need to go down into the catacombs, which is probably more dangerous than meeting the enemy here. We are walking in the blind here. Why do you need to go below?"

  She refused to answer the question.

  "?por qué?(Why?)"

  "As the cat asked!"

  I pushed her into the wall and grabbed her throat as she was trying to derail from what we needed to do.

  “?por qué?(Why?)”

  “Answer the cat's question?”

  I squeezed a little bit, and she started to speak.

  "Okay!... I will tell you. A boy with blue electric light came to me two weeks ago, and told me to travel to the Elves Kingdom. I was not far from the Kingdom, so I listened to him and got caught because someone had added several million Randid on the bounty for me."

  "So, the blue electro boy, we have met him also. Why should we care?"

  "Será mejor que hables rápido, porque te prometo que romperé este yeso y cuando me suelte, golpearé al humano y comenzaré a cazar al diablo con una sola pata.(You better speak fast, because I promise you I will crack this plaster, and when I get loose, I will beat the shit out of the human and start hunting the devil with only one paw.)

  "What he said!" I countered to Tinker.

  "FINE! I am looking for a bomb, okay! That is why I have traveled here. The boy told me a bomb is here and I need to find it."

  “?por qué?(Why?)”

  “Yeah, why?”

  "Because I am the only one who can disarm it, if it goes off, it will not only have a big impact here in The Fallen Kingdoms, but it will have an effect also in Valiant, and it will flatten the whole Kingdom, opening a pathway for the demons to move towards the gates leading to Earth with only a door between Earth and Valiant."

  "I don't get it. Why would flattening the ground help a pathway to Earth?" I asked and released her throat so she could speak more freely.

  "Berk, the bomb created by my grandfather was meant for the Valiant war many years ago. After the incident when I was a child and everything around got erased, that was only a tiny prototype of what my grandfather had created. He...When the gates to Earth opened, several gates leading to Paladin Woods, Lark Van Polan sacrificed his life so the gates would automatically close when Valiant changed, ending the war here. With time, the Warlock Azlok has tried to start the war all over again by opening the path again. If the portals closed by your father open up again, all species can pass through, meaning all kinds of evil can pass through the gates, and an invasion of your home world would be a possibility."

  Behind Tinker, I could see Stella standing on the walk path, looking at me. Is this what she wants me to do, inheriting her powers, being someone worthy by helping Tinker?