Chapter 74 - 75. You Are Safe. I Am Here,” (1/2)

Falak seemed to be aware of my presence. He crept up and was about to approach me. With his stomach muscles, he moved slowly, ”Don't miss me. I won't be here for long,” I told him when he was already in front of me.

It seemed Falak knew what I was talking to him. He immediately went down and checked back every cage.

”Tha?!,” Antonie called me from his cage.

I waved at him, Hi!” I said as I jumped carefully from one cage to another. I knew the risk. If I fell down in my attempt to reach Antonie's cage, my body would go straight to the underworld without death visiting me first.

”Are you crazy?! Stupid brat! What are you doing?!” I ignored his swear words, ”Stupid! Hurry back! You are risking your life to death?!”

I thickened my ears and focused on jumping carefully from one cage to another.

”Come back, idiot! Falak is still here. Are you tired of living already?! He kept yelling at me, begging me to come back.

I, who was starting to get irritated by his scream!”, got annoyed, ”Can't you just shut up? Why are you so noisy?!” I shouted sarcastically, ”I am trying to concentrate, so shut up, idiot!” I almost slipped off as Antonie continued to scream, but after I said so, he went quiet.

I regained my concentration and caught my breath. There was only one jump left to reach Antonie's cage, so I could not fail after I went this far.

When I was about to jump, I felt the back of my shoe get caught in the iron bars of the cage where I was standing. It happened so quickly as my body slipped, and I could see the light at the top of the doom very clearly.

My body plunged free into the underworld. Antonie's scream sounded very low as my ears could only hear my own heart beating like crazy. What was in my brain was all gone all of sudden, replaced by the emptiness that seemed to be forever. I wanted to close my eyes, but the view over the doom was too beautiful to let go of. 'Is it the end of my life?'

When I felt my body fall further down and Antonie's cage seemed to get smaller, I closed my eyes, ”I give up” I whispered.

'Zie, if we can't be together in this world, can we be together in another?I am sorry I have no time to visit you again. See you later' Tears fell down as all the memories swirled in my head.

The temperature around me started to drop. The cold that embraced me was like a greeting from the darkness happily greeted me. The second I let go of my life, I gasped.  I felt a rope wrapped around my body, holding me from falling further into the underworld.

My consciousness came on when I saw a man clinging to one of the cages at the bottom. He tried to climb up while still holding me, pulling me up with difficulty.

'Why?” I felt like everything was over but why did he suddenly come? I had given up everything, let go of what I could not reach. But it seemed that God was too kind to bring him as my guardian angel.

”Calm down,” My tears just flowed freely after hearing his soothing voice, ”You are safe. I am here,” a warm caress from him felt like something impossible for me to have some minutes ago, ”Shhh, that is enough, calm down,” I just nodded in between my tears I was trying to suppress.

Naar managed to pull me, saving my life. We stood on the most basic of the hundreds –perhaps more--the hanging cages of the prisoners. The distance from where we stood to the mouth of the hole in this room was very far. Even the dome above looked very small, ”Enough, don't say anymore, okay? We can go up, calm down,” The more he calmed me down, the harder it was for me to stop crying.

It took a while for me to get calmer, then Naar asked me to climb onto his back. He tied me up using ropes that connected to his body, making sure that I would not fall when he tried to climb from one cage to another.

As we moved up, the prisoners who were in the cage looked at us in amazement. ”Why did you save me? Don't you think it is very dangerous? You should just let it go. After all, when I fell later--,” I did not continue my words when I saw his expression who was struggling to get up, my body added weight to his back.