LUCEM
Chapter XVI

Too confident to wait for something to come is the greatest hypocrisy in a person.

I walked around for no reason watching every inch of the wall as if it would eat me if I let my guard down. It's only been a few weeks we've been here, but a few times the magic has rolled the weeks into years that just jump in. Turn everything into an unusual cycle.

“Hei—remarkable,” said Jiso, his unexpected voice shaking me from my daydream.

I turned to look at her, finding her sweating and panting as she tried to keep our distance closer.

“What do you mean?” my many.

Jiso gave himself time to catch his breath.

“Report!! I've seen Marbella. I found a direct path leading to the space where the cat was,” Jiso explained with confidence, his breathing still slightly wheezed.

I found no hesitation in his sentence. The rats watching sounded boisterous in whispers.

“Alright,” I replied by stepping away from Jiso to return to the side of my private aisle.

“You have arranged all this from the beginning, Marbi.” I picked up my serule.

I went back to Jiso and found him who was putting a belt on his waist, the black rat was sturdy but not fat. A dagger was inserted there.

“Some, come with us,” exciting Jiso.

Tracing the pipe along the passageway, two or three kilos meters from where we had been staying all this time, I saw Jiso moving his hand so we could get closer. A hole in the wall of the passageway the size of the body of an adult mouse is visible.

“I found this hole when looking for additional food for us, and I have seen Marbella at the end there,” Jiso pointed into the hole.

“ Tunnel mouse, yes. Did you dig this hole,” I asked Jiso.

“Not the whole, Sir. This hole has been there half on the other side of this wall. I dug here because I found the smell of the food and tried to get it. Not digging too long I have found an open hole connected to Marbella's room and also to a room with enough food,” explained Jiso.

“What's the already open hole that's big?”

“No, it was the same size as the size of a rat dugout in general, but I did not smell the scent of a rat or find any traces of a mouse at all along the hole," Jiso replied.

“Alright, map out this location and make a plan so that we can all get through the hole without making a big noise. And I want our plan not to turn anything into Marbella's plan,” my instructions.

Jiso and his five troops nodded in unison, and with a brief cue the six mice moved into the hole in the hallway wall.

Ten minutes passed and no sound came out of the hole in the wall, I tried to peek into the hole of the rat. Too dark.

I lifted the slightly dusty flute from my pants pocket, rubbed it a few times with the side of the shirt and started playing it. His melody entered the passageway, a small hole in the wall to get the position of Jiso and his five troops, not close at all. It's five kilo meters and it's still tracing, hmmm? Six, seven, eight, nine, ten....