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Kathy received costumes in keeping with the era. She was exempted from wearing the foot-reducing shoes. And she regretted not having sanitary napkins and toothpaste.....
She was also free to come and go around the palace; to visit the exterior. She could not ride a horse and a chaperone was imposed on her.
-- Enhora good. I heard about your upcoming marriage," Kathy greeted.
-- It's a political decision," Akame said dryly.
-- I thought marriage was a civil contract.
-- Among other things," Akame replied, withdrawing and leaving her alone, as the Qiang Ling arrived at his side.
-- How is your wound," the young woman greeted courteously.
-- The healer doctor has given me the appropriate teas and concoctions, and several sessions of acupuncture and acupressure.
-- You need antiseptics... I want you to know it is a terrible shock for me to know that I am many centuries before my birth. I don't know how you came to be in my time. It's terrible what you've done to me.
-- And you want to know why I brought you here.
-- Of course.
-- I'll soon tell you. I'm up against a warlord who has ambitions to take something of mine.
-- The beautiful bride. He replied with an obvious gesture.
-- Among other things.
---And what do I have to do with that?
The man looked at her. She guessed it was a passion that burned and undressed her with its passionate and silent gaze.
-- You are engaged," she said fearfully, understanding that nothing would defend her if she carried out what she supposed to be his ardent intentions.
--- You will help me in time.
--- I'm just a student nurse.
--- Exactly.
Kathy was confused. He towered over her with his stature. He was a tall, stocky, filmy man.
-- Have you really never been to a gym?" she asked, feeling overpowered by his galloping, depraved mind.
-- No. I know his world.
-- That led you to my time.
-- Tomorrow she'll see for herself.
-- How can I be sure? I'm his prisoner. I'm cornered here. You decide for yourself as if I were your property.
-- We'll draw up a contract.
-- I think he already has one.
-- Ours is mercantile.
-- They're all mercantile. The man said with the intention of saying good-bye.
-- So we are in the middle of a civil war.
-- Let's say a dispute over land boundaries.
-- And over a beautiful woman.
-- At the rate we're going, it'll soon be for two.
-- She won't pretend. She indicated in disgust, feeling that the other was auctioning her off.
-- We're in the middle of an exceptional situation.
-- Of course. More than a thousand years from my time.
-- He'll be back. Don't worry about that... By the way -- the man gestured and a servant rushed up, bowed and looking down at the floor, held out a chest.
-- For you.
-- Does it weigh much?
-- He will carry it.
-- I see. I must lock myself in my room. Know that I won't forgive you for missing the Squid Game season, and the Gay Superman series.
The man with a bow walked away and she walked down the lonely corridors.
She reached her room and curiously opened the chest. Toothpaste, soap, shampoo, toothbrush, a made in north korea makeup case, sanitary caps, deodorant.
She couldn't help but smile...
II
Thomas called his father.
-- Hello. Have you arrived in New York yet?
-- Yes. Getting used to the time change. I'm worried. You really should be here. Hong Kong is cruel to those who don't hold up.
-Wherever. I'll be fine. Who can I trade a kilo of gold with that won't come looking to kill me or kidnap me for my money?
-- There are several.
-- A reliable one.
-- More or less reliable is a Vietnamese. I'll send you his phone number. And I'll tell you he's on the road, so I'll see if I can get a hold of him.
-- Hey. Golden triangle guys can be dangerous," Thomas replied, understanding that the Vietnamese guy's "trip" was that he was hiding from the police.
-- I'll talk to him. Then I'll tell you.
-- Pay well?
--- Count on it... You're my son. I won't expose you.
-- Thank you... Will you recover?
-- It's temporary. You'll see.
II
Kathy sat gazing at the main inner garden of Qiang Li's palace.
She breathed in the cold mountain air and enjoyed the serenity of the view and the tranquility of the moment.
Her previous life was the sum of hardships wrapped up in the harsh environment of Hong Kong.
Now she understood that fate gave her moments of tranquility, in preparation for a challenge of destiny.
Silent, ethereal, beautiful beside her sat Akame, Qiang Li's beautiful fiancée.
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General Hang Hing smiled with satisfaction.
He had stolen the book of secret portals. He knew that the emperor was looking for it. Whoever had it could use it to take people and objects from different eras and use them as he wished.
The detail here is that Qiang Li also used the portals. I had no doubt that Qiang also benefited from it.
He was born in a certain era. One crossed the portal of a certain time. A time of the 64 established times of Iching.... He wanted the time of abundant prosperity and to fix it in his life line and start over knowing everything. He wanted everything... To take away the land, the castle, even Akame... Take everything from Qiang Ling.
Also the secret mountain with the richest and biggest gold mine in China. It was not a visible mountain. It was an inverted mountain somewhere in the region.
-- Fighting with the advantage -- he murmured, as he reviewed his troops. He had brought them from earlier times and different places. Roman legionaries, Spartan warriors, Vikings, heavy cavalry from the barbarian Huns.
Medieval military engineers, 21st century doctors, military strategists of the Second World War... Weaponsmiths who modified bows and arrows, more efficient catapults, lighter and stronger armor, more flexible and more efficient swords.
-- No one can accuse me of not bringing progress to this era," he smiled with satisfaction, "The big question was.... What had Qiang Li brought through the portals in his travels in the different epochs? His spies informed him that in all this time only a fragile and beautiful unknown young woman was seen, who apparently did not overcome an immense uncertainty.
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