But what happened to Hexa after Maya left the tent? She got out of the tent and went for a walk to get to know the place better.
She walked out of the meadow, past the forest, though the village, to the town around the castle. She explored the corridors and the alleyways of the small, sleek town.
Soon, she ended up near a huge building. It wasn't bigger than the enormous castle she had been to the day before, but it surely was close to the size. The sign read 'NULL Research' in golden, italic letters.
Hexa wasn't usually this curious about anything. Especially when it involved research, theories or tech, the things Aatos loved. But this time, it interested her, and she let curiousity take over. She had to get in.
Hexa tried the door. Of course, it was locked. Damn it. How could she get in now?
Her vision went black and white. She felt like she was watching herself from her own eyes. Her hands clenched into tight fists. She heard an oddly familiar voice from inside.
"Help!" The voice shouted over and over again.
Without a second thought, she found herself punching the hard metal door desperately, like she didn't feel any main at all. She was too weak to do any actual damage to the door.
When she realized she couldn't get in by the door, she moved to the window and hit it with her elbow, using all her force in that hit.
For her relief, it wasn't bullet proof glass, but regular glass that broke due to the hit. An alarm went off, but she didn't care. She was on a mission to save someone.
She stepped in from the shattered window, looking around the colorless facility. She saw was no one in the room, but a strange candle drew her attention. Grey wax, white, unburned string in the middle, the flame completely colorless, but shined brighter than any other flame.
Color came back to Hexa's vision, only for her to see her mother flickering in the place of the candle. She now realized why the voice sounded so familiar to her. The voice – it was her mother's. And now she was talking to her again.
"Save me," her mother pleaded.
Without thinking, Hexa grabbed the candle. It wasn't hot as all. The flame didn't burn her skin when she touched it. Getting out of the reseach facility by the shattered window.
Once she got outside, she quickly realized she was surronded by Nullbounders, a whole army of them. It was clear breaking in there was a real deal, not some small thing to get away with.
Hexa's vision went black again, the outlines of the Nullbounders white, red outlines of drawn, smiling mouths on their faces and demon horns on their heads. They had guns in their hands. She didn't know how. She thought this place was medival.
When she looked in her hands, instead of a candle, it was her mother's hand she was holding. It was the only thing that was outlined with purple.
She started running, somehow getting past the Nullbounders. She was running for her life, risking everything just to get away. She could hear running behind her, quickening her heartbeat as she paces as fast as she could.
But some of the men in the group were faster than her. One of them grabbed her arm and managed to stop her. Now everyone was pointing a gun at her. She had to surrender now.
Now she saw herself from outside her own body. It was like she was controlling a video game character, watching herself place the candle down and put her hands up in surrender.
What made it worse, was the black in her vision never leaving. She saw the officer who put handcuffs on her flickering as a full demon for split seconds. They other Nullbounders gestured her to walk, and so she did.
She was brought to the castle. Not the upper part, but down the stairs to the dungeon below. No questions ansked, just brought straight to the dungeon full of cells, the place titled Blacklight Prison.
Half the cells of the cold, dark dungeon were empty. The other half was filled with dangerous-looking criminals who all had their own stories of how they ended of there.
Hexa was pushed into one of the cells with the number '086' next to it. She had no idea how long she would be staying there, but it for sure wouldn't be a short stay.