"Did you really have to do this?" Razvan asked with a rather nice grimace on his face and arms folded in front of him, as he glanced at the ghost-man who was grinning at him. However, Kamu just started blinking innocently.
"Oh, please, you've hurt my soul now." The Ishán of the Immortal Mist placed his hand in the middle of his chest, as if it had really hit him in the heart. "I didn't do anything." He finally shrugged and twirled his dagger in his hand.
"Yeah, nothing. You just gave the poor thing a heart attack." Tele Tete remarked under his breath, but no one really paid attention to him.
"So, just to clarify things, do you really want to stay here for days?" Kamu asked with his head tilted to the side, while placing his hands on his hips.
"Probably. If there's someone here who can lead us to the undersea-walker capital, we'd better take advantage of it." Rahul explained, shrugging his shoulders. "Why?" The western-raised hegin asked, as he crouched down next to Citar, who had already begun trying to wake the unconscious Foreign Minister.
"Because, in the meantime, we'll go back to the Floating Barracks. There's always something to do at the center. There's not much point in staying here if you're not going anywhere." The ghost-man waved.
"In that case, we'll see you in three days." Razvan smiled faintly, and Kamu laughed to himself, then nodded.
"Have fun. Come on, Ajtony, let's bring the heart attack on the new recruits." The ghost-man chuckled, which his poison-mixing friend repeated before the pair, after saying their goodbyes, left the world of the living, into the Shadow World, and returned to the Floating Barracks.
"It's okay, the danovus always sees something new." Physalis Alkekengi noted, as she gesticulated to the point from which the two men had disappeared.
"Do you think he's dead?" Citar asked, as he leaned into the undersea-walker's face, but he was addressing his words to Rahul.
"I have no idea. He may have hit his head too hard." The chüvigh boy noted, as he began to stretch his head to try to see if there was a wound on the undersea-walker's head.
"He's still alive. I can hear his heartbeat." Alkekengi rolled her eyes.
"Should I wake him up?" Suk asked, as he himself moved closer to the unconscious man.
"You shouldn't poison the poor man, Zovárd." Benkó grimaced and folded his arms in front of him. However, his words only received a piercing look in response.
"I also have antler salt, if you must know, I planned to use it to wake him up. However, I can also stick one of my needles in him if you want. That is just as useful." The Zovárd boy shrugged, as he also crouched down next to the unconscious man. "So which one should it be?" He looked up at the team with a questioning look, but everyone could tell that it would have been completely indifferent to him which option they chose.
"The antler salt." Tele Tete gave the answer, as the responsible supervisor of the team. "We shouldn't kill people unless we really have to." The man scratched his chin and looked out to sea.
"If you say so, Uncle Tete." Suk took a deep breath as he started searching my little bag to find the antler salt that could wake the fainted one. "Where did it go, huh? I know I had some." The Zovárd boy grumbled under his breath as his eyebrows furrowed more and more as the seconds passed. "Got it! Finally!" The boy pulled out a small holder and even threw it in the air.
"Careful Suk, don't drop it." Teveli tried to warn his friend to be careful, but of course it didn't matter what he told Suk, the Zovárd boy would do what he wanted, no matter what anyone told him.
"Now, back off, guys, this is going to stink!" He announced and no longer bothered to see if Citar and Rahul were still close to the unconscious man, he took a deep breath and opened the small container, which he immediately pressed under the unconscious man's nose.
"Well, that didn't work." Achilleus rolled his eyes and even folded his arms, when the undersea-walker was still unconscious half a minute later. However, at the moment he finished his sentence, the fallen undersea-walker, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, sat up with a huge sneeze.
"Did you say something?" Suk asked grinning, looking back over his shoulder at the Motumisz boy as he closed the container again and put it in his bag.
"Nothing." Achilleus grimaced.
"What was that smell of a guppy fish stuck on a deep-sea reef?" The undersea-walker asked, wiping the bottom of his nose, as if he could erase even the memory of the smell.
"Antler salt. Exactly what's needed for fainting people like you." Suk chuckled as he stood up and dusted off his clothes. He didn't want to get his clothes dirty, who knows what Marianne would do to them if he ruined his works.
"So Mukei Vietryk was just a dream." The undersea-walker sighed, as if the weight of the world had lifted from his shoulders after looking around the group and not seeing the legendary man.
"Oh, no. He wasn't a dream at all. He was real, he just decided that it would be boring to stay with us if we didn't go under the sea." Citar explained with a wave.
"Does that mean he's coming back?" He asked in a trembling voice, when one of the nyiumgyi pressed itself under his arm. "I'm fine, Bubbles." The foreign minister, who played researcher in his free time, smiled faintly as he took the nyiumgyi in his arms and hugged it.
"The nyiumgyi are very calm around you." Rahul noted, a half smile on his lips. "I've never seen anything like this before, although I've met enough in my life." He added when the undersea-walker looked up at him with huge blinks.
"What were the ones you met like?" He asked curiously, with the sparkle in his eyes that usually appeared in Suk's when the Zovárd boy discovered a new herb somewhere.
"They are bloodthirsty. They usually attacked everything that came their way and devoured the entire crop." Rahul grimaced, as if he was just thinking back to a certain incident, but since he didn't say more about it, the group couldn't be sure what their friend was thinking.
"Oh, by the spirits of the sea!" The self-proclaimed scientist hugged the nyiumgy closer to him. "But these little things couldn't hurt even the smallest crabs. Isn't that right, my little ones?" He looked towards the forest, where smaller, larger and multi-colored nyiumgys were gathered at the base of the trees. "Well, don't be afraid. The guests won't hurt you." The man's demeanor changed immediately when he turned to the nyiumgyis.
"This is crazy." Benkó whispered to Achilleus standing next to him.
"Completely." The Motumisz boy agreed.
"I've never seen so many nyiumgyi. How can there be so many here?" Rahul asked, and Llyr smiled broadly and turned back to the team.
"If you're curious, I'll explain." He suggested it and although there were some in the team who weren't even the slightest bit interested in the matter, most of them were curious and started nodding.