MARGIE
"What?" My tone of voice rose a decibel and look saying seriously-are-you? at him.
I sat in a plastic chair and rested my hand resting on the metal table. Delrux sat in front of me while the man leaned quietly against the side of the steel door.
When I first entered the place, strange amazement engulfed me. Only in newspapers and movies do I see such a place that can be done by scientists who are good at technology. But first the equipment within this area. The light was bright blue all around, computers lined up wide, it's vast around here and no noise could be heard except for a female Iteco (Robot) in the hologram in the middle of the square table where Delrux and I were sitting. I know nothing of all the equipment technology.
"It's true what Vivi told you, Lady." Delrux refers to the Iteco woman. Iteco looks like a real human being, it has long as white as snow hair, two eyes that speak to the depths of the blue ocean, the narrowest color like a red rose, its porcelain complexion is pleasant to look at and her oblong face. If she is a real person, many people might envy her, especially since her body is well-shaped. She is wearing a blue type of garment that defined the shape of the body and has long sleeves matched by a black boot.
How could Delrux have made this Iteco?
My attention returned to what Delrux had said. His face was so serious that he wasn't joking.
"Why does her mother want to kill her? How can I believe you that Thraia is still alive?" I straightened up and kept my eyes on him.
"Lady Margie, every human being has a secret to keep. If I were at the feet of the dear Queen, I have a reason why but that's what we don't know. Even if I enter the kingdom system there is no answer we are looking for. That reason may be hidden in the Queen herself.
Thraia is alive because Wyxia saved her before the arrival of some people ordered by the queen to kill her, the Kamaton. But the problem is we can't find out where in the Philippines in Manila she ended up. That's why you're going to the world called Earth to rescue Thraia before everyone gets caught her and killed her,” Iteco litany.
"But I haven't memorized that world?"
The Iteco hologram walked over to me and bent her head to look straight into my eyes. "Don't worry, Hale will help you." Then her smile broadens on me not taking the stare out of my eyes.
"Who's Hale?" I asked with my brows puckered. Who is she saying? Is it a lady or a gentleman?
Iteco stood up straight. Just wait, as far as I know, every Iteco has its name. Did it say her name? I can't remember when I first saw her.
"Me," replied the strange man. What me Me? What is that? It fixed the stand from leaning against the wall.
“He’s Hale Spencer Fergan, my only child,” Delrux immediately said.
Her son? I look back and forth at Delrux and his alleged son. Wait, if this is his child... Why do some words he uttered are strange?
"Why do you look like that? Isn't what my father said unbelievable?" Hale asked as he sit at the table next to his father.
"Not like that, I'm confused by some words you pronounce. Words foreign to my hearing," I explained.
A happy smile was on Delrux's face. What is that smile for? Hale's annoyed face turned to me.
"Hale's mother is an earthean. So that's how her word is mixed with English. Earth has many languages and dialects that are not like ours. Our language is different, it's Odessian but many things make us different in that world," Iteco replied.
The man is half Earthean so he is like that. Wait? How did he get here in our world?
"We need to hurry, Lady Margie. Time is running out. Hale, I look forward to seeing you in this matter." Delrux looks at his son. No matter what he nodded to his father.
I adjusted the placement of the hat on my head. I need to be able to talk to Alliana and tell her what I will do and almost forgot about my family. What will I reason with them? I bit my lower lip looking at my shoe. It was a big problem I got into. But I can't let the Queen kill Thraia. What was the reason the Queen wanted? That’s the one question that has no answer.
"When are we leaving? Surely how?" I asked three minutes later. Iteco had earlier disappeared when Delrux told her to prepare everything. Where I don’t know what he’s referring to her.
Hale was still silent in a corner holding his nepon (cellular phone). I think he was playing.
Delrux looked up at me. He folded the docram (laptop), I don't know what he was doing.
"Later after Vivi," he replied gently. I remember now. Vivi is the name of Iteco. By the way, Delrux said the name of Iteco earlier, and I never pay attention to that, didn't I?
"Later? How's my family? And how many days I'll be gone. What will I excuse?" I asked a series of questions.
"Don't worry," he said with a wide smile he gave me.
"How can I not worry?" I hurried back to him.
He took a deep breath and gave me a look to believe him. How can I be sure of what he said? I didn’t want my father to get mad at me and send me to the Herax Academy. I hated that school. I knew that my father might be able to send me to that school. There are many reasons why I don’t and hate that school. Cause the three of us Thraia, Khriscelle and Alliana already know.
"Vivi has already talked to Miss Khriscelle about this. She will take care of your disappearance," he said.
"Is Khriscelle here?" Slightly raised my tone. As far as my knowledge, she was in the east of Odeissa? In the city of Ophri.
"Yeah, didn't you meet? When he found out what had happened to her Aunt Wyxia was even quicker than the rooster's crowing to go home."
Why didn't she call anyway? "Where is she? I want to see her and talk." Joy and excitement are in my melody. For almost three years we had not met in person except for a conversation on the nepon and the docram hologram. At the university of Ophri she studied.
"I have ordered something from her, Ihja. You can talk to her after you find, save and bring Thraia home." Suddenly his voice became serious and he cleared his throat. "She can't come back right away because I sent him south of Odeissa, in the Devoria area three minutes ago when you arrived."
I removed the clothes I am wearing and fitted in the black clothe and fitted blue jeans. Delrux said that after he gave me the clothes in the paper container, my clothes should be appropriate for the world of Earth. What I am wearing looked like a man's dress except that it showed the curve of my body. I removed the fake mustache from my mouth and let my hair down. I took off Delrux's converse shoes he had given, they were dark blue.
I dislike it and it is so annoying. It doesn't seem to suit me. I looked at myself from head to toe using the large dressing room mirror and picked up the long chocolate-colored long coat that was beyond knee length. I frowned and reluctantly opened the dressing room door. My gait is weak because I am still training myself in what I am wearing and it seems to be squeezing me and it is unable me to breathe. The ugly clothing of the Earth world.
"Let's go!”
"Son of a squid!" I exclaimed in shock when I saw Hale in front of me.
His eyebrows shot upward as he looked at me. "Hurry up there, times are running babe," he said seriously and turned his back on me and walked first.
Time is running babe? What is that?
"Wait, what did you say Taym is running beb?" I asked him.
Hale turned to me with no expression on his face. "Time is running out," Hale replied in an annoyed tone.
"Ahhh, that's right," I asked.
He shrugged and took large steps that opened the door and left it open to enter. I went in and I closed it.