In a Box

The young man, no, more like an adult now, came forward and stood in front of me. For everyone else, if they had paid attention to Meng Hao they'll only see him standing in front of emptiness.

"I thought you died," I said.

"And I was sure you survived, how have you been?" he asked.

I looked at myself and looked at him and said, "Good, actually been good. And I see the same for you too, you've improved a lot, and now you're awfully strong," I said.

"Strong…" Meng Hao trailed.

"What's wrong?" I asked.

"Let's go to the gate now, we'll discuss this later," he said.

And he was right, but the only issue was the number of people swarming the gate and killing or fighting anyone who tried to pass.

They didn't know who had and who didn't have the marble, so everyone was killing each other.

"That's not gonna be easy," I said as I had my eyes focused on the gate.