Nothing new, nowhere, I feel like I'm ignoring the group talking a lot these last few minutes, but again, their talking voices fade into background noise as I look into the white room.
The white, completly, identical, white room.
The same one we landed in, with the same seamless wall, nothing but a glint, light coming from who knows where, way too big for 5 people, just the same.
"I mean we could eat the-!" I stop mousy sentence by shouting at them "Guys the room look the same as before!"
There must be an explanation, am I just being crazy? Is all the stress getting to me? Is this the next room? Is this, considered to be the next room? Just the same thing? Will there be more goblins jumping at us the second we enter? Is this the next step of the tutorial?
"What?" malfoy answer my shout and join me, waiting for an answer from me.
He instead get it when he stare at the room I'm staring at "Ah" he says extremelly super duper gracefully.
"Yeah, Ah." I answer extremely super helpfully.
Should we just wait in the middle of the gore? Coming just after us the three other stick together, and as helpfully as us add "Ah, fuck." "I get it now" "." guess who didn't said anything? Our own badass grandpa of course.
"What do we do?" mousy ask, I answer "let's wait inside here for now, we'll figure something out while we do"
Jenna look at the crushed head of the goblin beside her, the one I stomped on, seven, fucking, times, and I get her really.
I doubt no one want to stay in the middle of the gory room smelling like shit, blood, and vomit all in one. I look around the room, and no windows magically appear in front of my eyes.
What a shame, I'll settle for a good smelling spray.
Nothing appear.
Fuck you system.
I turn around after my words, passing beside the caved head filled with vomit of the goblin, trying my hardest not to look at it and puke again.
Grabbing my spear I rejoin the group who all seems to agree, more or less with my idea, no one sit down.
Balrow still stare at the room.
Annie is against the wall she found her daggers on, leaning against it. As far away from the goblin bodies as possible.
Malfoy, damn that's his new name now, is actually in the middle of the room, trying to move his shoulder around. I see him wince when he tries to lift his arm above his head.
Jenna is looking at the hearth, pondering. "We could throw the bodies in the fire, it would smell better....I think?"
Everyone, me included turn to look at her.
"Well, not like there is anything else to do if we're not going in the room" malfoy support her decision and I relentletly agree, don't know if burning bodies work like that though, I doubt it does. "It may make the small worse" mousy add, and balrow assure "it will."
My eyes land on a corner of the room, farthest away from the room "let's just shove them here" I wave at the corner "and like, rest as far as possible from them" I look around, reading their faces, searching for a counter argument.
No one has a better idea.
Time to get to cleaning I guess.
The easiest one to deal with was the one balrow dealt with, he was the closest to the corner and even if he slammed his shield against the goblin skull until he couldn't think anymore, apart from blood and a disformed face, his head didn't pop open.
The girls easily took care of this one, Jenna grabbing the feet, Annie the hands, and without even shedding sweat, the goblin was forever resting against the corner as a ball of limbs.
The second one was the first one I killed, his throat looked like it was drilled open with a power tool. Like the one balrow killed, he was easy to take care of.
Malfoy and me tried to put it in the corner, but balrow intervened, stopped malfoy from using his injured shoulder and helped me putting this one on the corner as the girls were already working on the fourth one.
This one. The second one. apart from giving us even more bloody hands, at least for me, was a breeze too.
The third one was the one malfoy took care off, malfoy. bullheaded for some reason, held this one alone on his good shoulder after balrow told him to rest, he was already there with it when we were finished with the second one, balrow shook his head at him.
I'm pretty sure the old man doesn't care much, almost respected him from this. Balrow seems to have really old schools value.
Like men should work hard and don't show pain kind of shit. I think?
The one he brought was filled with cuts, it drenched his white shirt completly red.
"We're horror movies stars now." I said that out loud, he laughed.
The fourth one was the gutted out one, he was harder to deal with, at least that's what the girls said.
His guts were trying to escape so it dragged against the ground when they tried to move him the first time, malfoy, still willing to help despite his injury, grimaced, and pushed the guts in while the girls carried it.
The fifth one was the vomi-! Well it was supposed to be, as I walked toward the last one I killed, balrow, seeing my path, stopped me.
"What's wrong?"
he didn't answer, instead he nodded toward the one I stomped on, the one beside the door, the one that tried to run away.
"let's do this one first"
I raised an eyebrow "this one closer" I wave at the vomit filled one, it was closer.
Seeing my logic he don't answer, but still hold me.
What's wrong with this old man?
As we stare at each other, me confused, him....whatever he was feeling, the two girls and malfoy go toward the vomit one.
Then balrow speak again.
"because, they are closer"
...WHAT THE FUCK!?
"Because you stopped me for 10 whole fucking seconds" Balrow is unable to counter my flawless logical answer. "does it matter now? They are already cleaning it"
Why the heck is he doing this?I look at the three others and Jenna seeing me, stop working on the body to stand up, and wave at me with the smile and gaze of a concerned gal.
She take a single step to the left too, hiding the body from me.
Alright...
Ignoring balrow grip my steps lead me toward the new fifth one, toward the door now, all while whispering a simple "whatever" under my breath.
I pass my hand through my long black hair.
And only now do I realize that they are messy, filled with knots because of the blood that landed on me.
Lot's of strands are stuck to my face too, also have some in my mouth, that taste bad.
Spitting them out doesn't work, so I settle on taking them off one by one with my fingers, my fingers taste like blood. Disgusted I decide to wipe my tongue with my sleeve, it taste like vomit. Even more disgusted I stop and go back to my fingers.
Wonder what their deal is?
But, actually I'm lying, I don't really care, I rub my palm against my tired eyes, they sting for some reason, did blood got in them?
I must look like a mess.
I press my other hand against my side, balrow already ripped one of his sleeve and did a sort of bandage to stop the bleeding, fortunately, the goblin more grazed me than stabbed me.
Luckiest thing that happened to me today.
The fifth one was a bit messy because of the popped skull. But with one hand on the hole to stop more for dripping out, and if you ignore the blood coming from his back, it was a pretty easy one.
The sixth one, they took care of it. They didn't told me how, I saw them hiding it under all the other bodies, they moved all of them to put it under for some reason. Compared to the other ones, they didn't explain me how they lifted it up and shit, no, they are strangely quiet about this matter.
One of the couch moved place, it's hiding the blood and vomit I left on the sixth one, a glance behind show they didn't hide the others blood and parts that fell off.
I sit down on the couch, we sit down on the couches, and balrow open his mouth "that last one we did was annoying" I frown at that, he's talking about the fifth one, why is he talking like that? He's complaining? Huh, it sound fake, as if he's trying to fill a void.
"I can guess, do you all think we should do something about the blood?" mousy add, helping him to fill the void.
Wait what?
"I mean, we don't really have anything to clean with" Jenna add, We're really just ignoring the secrecy now?
We're really ignoring the whole vomito incident?
"Indeed we-" malfoy continue but I tune him out.
WAIT REALLY!? WE'RE REALLY IGNORING THAT!?