Orienta. Part 2

I look at the man beside me, he is handsome, not too old with strong beautiful eyes. He don't say anything as we drive, neither do I. We enter the tallest building in the city, a building we'd seen earlier but hadn't been able to find. He leads me to his chambers and on the way there, I notice everyone is extremely polite around this man. They bow when he is near and nobody talks directly to him. He opens the door to a huge room where every wall is a large window allowing me to see all parts of Orienta - or so it feels. We're above the clouds and I can feel the first rays of the sun on my face. He smiles for the first time as I climb the window to get a better view and he supports me with a hand at my back so I don't fall. I let myself fall into his arms and he carries me to his bed where he undresses me still without saying a word. Strangely I am not surprised as he undresses and reveals that he's wearing an ebbsuit. He looks at me with an impish grin, slides into bed with me and as he kiss me I wish that I don't have to fight this guy - he feels too right.

I know it's been hours. He's asleep, the bedsheet's not completely covering his perfect body. I stretch and walk naked to the window to gaze at the sun, it hasn't moved - at all! I climb onto the window-ledge and enjoy the light on my body, this is a very strange place.
Suddenly a tiny delicate woman comes into the room. She ignores me and start fuzzing around "my man". I look as she wash him, rubs him in perfumed oils and combs his hair. I put on my suit as he awakens and he motions for me to follow him. He takes me too a very large room where a lot of men are talking - unfortunately in their own tongue and I don't understand anything. Many of them are wearing ebbsuits and I'm starting to wonder if it's some kind of status symbol? He leads me to a large water filled basin where a bunch of naked girls are whispering among themselves. He lets me understand that I'm to get into the water and I quickly slide down besides the other girls. I ignore the girls and look around the room; there's all sorts of men here, some of them look very strange and only remotely human, none of them pay any attention to me and I curse the fact that I don't understand what they're saying, but it seems as if they're anticipating something important.
Finally a very tall guy comes into the room he's easily 3 meters tall, slender and well toned, his eyes are black pools of dangerous. He's wearing an ebbsuit just like mine and as he moves through the crowd he talk to everyone touching and probing their suits as if he's communicating with the suits and not the men wearing them. I notice that he talks to my man for a while and they both look pleased, he never look at me - I'm gratefull. Suddenly the big boss grabs hold of a man. I watch in horror as the little guy start running from the big boss but the boss just ports or teleports or moves really fast - I dunno - but he catches up with the running guy and plunges a knife in his back. The room sighs and slowly returns to "normal" as the big boss moves through the crowd again. I slip a little bit further into the water and wait for the big guy to leave - this is not so much fun anymore...

I decide that I have to stay for a while. There's too much going on that I really don't understand and I'm not quite ready to leave my very interesting man yet. I don't know what I do for the next couple of days. I move around in the building unhindered and I figure out that my lovers name is GaNing. I'm with him most of the time and I can feel that it's getting harder for me to remember why I'm here - I just want to be in his embrace floating through the sky above Orienta.
At some point he approaches me carrying a dagger. He says some words in his strange tongue, smiles his impish smile and solemnly holds out the dagger in both hands reciting a verse or something. I take the dagger without saying anything. He smiles and walks away. I'm confused! Somewhere deep down I know I just bonded with him, or maybe I had always been connected with him somehow. All I know is that he feels like a part of me.

One morning I wake up with the bitter taste of poison on my lips. It's very strange but my body isn't affected by it and in a daze I follow GaNings little serving girl into the bathroom where she bathes me and gives me a strange leaf to chew. Suddenly there's a shift or a ripple or a turn in reality and one of the big bosses stand in front of me. He tells me I don't belong here and he wants me to leave, our worlds are not meant to come together and he doesn't want Mr. Slayers spies in his world. Still, he tells me that this tower is controlled by 7 masters and their minions. My husband GaNing is a minion and serves "The Rising Sun". I am but a lowly SLA operative and if I don't leave, GaNing will pay. I'm confused and scared, this guy feels like raw power - his presence overwhealming me. Suddenly GaNing steps into the place? room? He is angry I can tell and the master (Force?) dismiss me, he wants to talk to GaNing in private.
The little serving girl grab my arm and give me my things, her face is smeared with blood, it looks like someone cut her. She pushes me into an elevator and sends me away. I'm having a serious feeling of "body functions - mind trapped elsewhere" as I let some guards put me in a rickshaw and I drive away from the building. I desperately want GaNing to come pick me up, but nothing happens. The driver looks at me and I suddenly realize that he isn't human; his legs are twisted , his body scaled and totally out of proportions, a tail flicker between his legs, his arms are very long with large black claws and his face... his face is very large and flat as is his nose, his eyes black swirling pools of chaos, he is a true demon. I look in the mirrored glass of the buildings we pass and all I see is a Rickshaw with a barefooted oriental human driver and the passenger a tiny oriental girl...me...I'm an oriental girl? I notice it all around me - nothing is what it seems; it is as if people are wearing masks...I don't know if I faint but suddenly I awake in an alley. All my things are gone except my suit, my phone and the dagger. I feel like I'm walking next to myself as I call G'rr an make them pick me up. They pick me up at the station and as I walk I notice people looking at me - a lot - some of them are bowing and nobody is looking me straight in the eyes. Suddenly I'm freezing and I just really want to go home. As we drive back to the little old lady I try to tell the others what happened but it is as if it isn't real, the demons...the masters...if only I'd been able to talk to GaNing. As I tell the story the others look very confused, somewhere along the way I lost two days! G'rr asks me if there's something written on the knife I got from GaNing and when I pull it from it's sheath I'm back by the tower of the rising sun. And then it hits me - the shifting market!!!
I look around, notice I have all my stuff and instantly recieves a message from Greg asking what I'm doing. It's two days old but somehow I know he just sent it and I'm standing in front of the tower 2 days ago. My head spins and I'm about to faint, the sorrow of losing GaNing is too great when suddenly he appears in front of me.
He tells me that i have to leave the market for the 6 masters are looking for me. He takes my hand with the dagger in it and puts it to his heart. I try to let go of the dagger but he tells me I have to stab him or I can't leave. He tells me that we have bound eachother with our lifeforce and I can't leave the market if I don't stab him. I cry as I push the dagger through his chest - and then I'm back with my team. I clutch the dagger to my chest and tell the other that I want to leave now. G'rr is totally calm and asks me what happened, as I try to make this story make any sense I realize I'm still one day short and I just know I have to go back to the market before things are right. I'm so scared!
When I look at the other and repeat what my husband said to me I suddenly realize that I know what's going to happen - and I speak Orienta. The rest of the team grabs onto me and this time I don't even notice that I arrive at the market. The others are here and we're all hit by the memory of what happened that day in Downtown when we killed a Nec. To me there's more though. I suddenly remember more than a year with GaNing, he married me when he gave me the dagger, I speak Orienta and my husband is in fact a demon... The grief overwhelms me and I stagger a few steps before I sit down. I look at the others and see that they all look at G'rr; he has fallen to his knees, his chest is bared and something is crawling out through bones and muscle. It hits me like lightning; this is the 7th master... the 7th master of "The Rising Sun" - The lord of Lies.
We're all very very confused and scared now. We killed a Nec to save some poor girl but in truth we'd killed a Nec to free a demon (and free G'rr from a demon) and we'd helped a softcompany (The Rising Sun) to get one of its masters back - we're so screwed!
The Lord of Lies speaks to G'rr. Tells him that he's very grateful of our help and that he'd tried to return home for a while. Only G'rrs surrender of will had made it possible for him to guide us in the right direction and get us to Orienta. The Masters are not capable of travelling by themselves in the real world they only exist physically in the shifting market, they are the powers, forces, protectors of the people of Orienta - the people brought them here in their minds, hearts and in their every day rituals. The people of Orienta had given life to the Masters/Demons and the masters protected the people. But SLA industries had given Orienta to The Dragons, a team of Necs that were sworn to keep order and peace.
The Rising Sun was tired of watching the Necs abuse the people and destroy the city so they had taken the matter into their own claws. The Lord of Lies had infiltrated The Dragons to find out how to seize power of Orienta - not to take it from SLA industries, but to make it prosper and grow as a part of SLA. Now it was time to wage war on the Dragons and the fact that SLA industries hadn't stopped it before it came to this, was seen as an invitation to the true Masters of Orienta to seize control again.
The Lord of Lies finished his story and we all stood like statues staring at him. He thanked us for our help in bringing him back and told us that he'd left some things in the building where we killed Rain and that we were free to take it - if we dared go back there. Then he left.
GaNing appeared again and this time there was no mercy. We would all be stuck for eternity in the shifting market unless I killed my husband. Silently the team touched my arms and back and then GaNing walked into my embrace, piercing himself on the dagger. We returned to the Real World.