Nick, AJ, Howie and Kevin where all looking at Brian pales face. Brian had a big head wound and also he had broken some ribs, his little and index finger of his left hand and his right knee. He also had a lot of bruises and little wounds. He had been in a coma for two days now. The doctors couldn't say if he would ever woke up again, but the guys had the feeling that they just simply didn't want to say the truth: that Brian would never wake up again. Next to his bed sat his mum and dad. Brian's mum had her son's hand in hers and she softly whispered some words to him, his dad was sitting on the other side of the bed and was just starring into nothing and was in some kind of shock, about the state his son was in.
There was always somebody beside his bed, hoping that he would wake up. But it didn't seem that that should happen very soon�
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They had walked already for one day. On his way, Brian had seen plants and animals he had never seen in his live. They only walked trough forests, 'cause they were afraid that in a village the Eru's would see them.
"Laugh� I'm hungry. Can't we get something to eat?"
Laughly turned around. "If you wait 5 minutes then we can get something to eat. Have patience�"
They walked further and after more then 5 minutes they came by a very big tree.
Laughly sat down next to the tree and started to pluck some flowers.
"Look," she said and showed him a flower. It was not a flower like Brian knew from 'his world'. It were little purple berries. "They taste very good." She started to pluck some more. Brian hesitated for a moment, but his hunger overcame. Slowly he tasted some of the little berries. They tasted very sweet and nice. Than Brian felt something jumping in his back and he felt flat on his face.
"What on earth is going on?"
He heard Laughly laughing very hard. He turned around and felt a little snout in his face. And two little funny eyes looked in his.
"What is this for a cute thing?" he asked Laughly who was still laughing very hard. The thing, who was sitting on his belly, was some kind of dog, but a little different. It was brown with black spots and a little bit bigger than a cat, but with short paws. It had a curly wagging tail.
"Aren't you a cuty," said Brian to the animal, while stroking it.
"Frot!" said the animal.
"It's an Winkle, it's like a dog for us. I think it run away from his owner."
Laughly starts to stroke the little Winkle.
"Frot�.frrrrr�" said the Winkle happily.
"I think it felt lonely in this forest and you were the first one he saw�" she starts to giggle again.
The Winkle stands up and he nestles himself in Brian's lap.
Laughly gives a short giggle "I think he has chosen you as his owner."
"HE has chosen ME as his�?"
"Yeah, Winkles choose their owners by themselves. I guess his other owner wasn't good enough. I'm afraid he will not leave you alone anymore�"
"Awww�. He really is cute� who cares I think I keep him, I always loved dogs."
"It can bring problems, but they are also very usefull. They have got very good ears, so he can warn us for Eru's or other danger. You need to give him a name."
Brian thought for a moment. "I think I'll name him� Moy."
The Winkle looks up and stairs Brian in his eyes.
"Is that good for you� Moy? I thought that this name fits you�"
"Frot!�� Moy" Moy is laying his head back in Brian's lap and closes his eyes.
"He said his name!"
"Yes, when he can talk a little bit. Most of it are only sounds, like frot, but they can always say their name."
"Weird animals do you have here," says Brian while stroking Moy.
"You will meet weirder I guess, " says Laughly, "we can better leave again if we want to arrive tomorrow in Dol Guldur."
"Alright," Brian stands carefully up. "Come on Moy, let's go to Dol Guldur."
Brian walks behind Laughly and Moy follows after a satisfied ''Frot".
Chapter 6 - Dol Guldur
Brian couldn't believe his eyes. He was standing at the edge of the wood and he was looking at a giant city. Enormous skyscrapers filled the skyline. The city looked like a giant anthill, it was full of noises and Brian couldn't believe that he didn't hear it sooner.
"Well, may I introduce: Dol Guldur," said Laughly with a smile.
"OMG it's enormous! I didn't thought it was so big."
"Well, it's big, but it's not the biggest city of Lythari. I guess that the biggest city Valerear is, where our leader Andodulin lives."
Brian feels a snout in the hollow of his knee.
"FROT!" He turns around. "What's the matter Moy?" He looks at the little Winkle.
Moy turns and starts to stair at Laughly, then he stairs back at Brian and bites softly in the leg of his trousers.
"Owww� your right Moy," says Laughly, "how could I forget that!?"
"What? What's going on?" Brian kneels to stroke Moy.
"Your clothes. The Eru's would see immediately that you're from the lake! Stupid me�. I need to get you some other clothes."
Brian looks down at his own clothes, jeans and a dark-blue sweater, and then he looks at Laughly's, light grey shirt and trousers. "Do you have to wear grey here?"
"Yes, only Andodulin and the Eru's wear other colorus, and of course the Anslyn's, a separated group of people who is very dangerous for us."
"Well, I guess that you better get me other clothes then, 'cause I don't want to get caught by an Eru freak."
Laughly nods. "I'm going to ask my best friend Mical if he has some clothes for you. You can better just stay here, together with Moy and please don't go anywhere else. Don't go to anybody else and when you think you are in danger or Moy tells you you are� just hide, okay?"
"Yes� you better look out too�"
Laughly smiles at him. "I will� I guess that I'm back in about an hour. Bye." Laughly walks away towards the city.
Brian sits down. Moy gives him a kiss and then lays his head in Brian's lap and lies down. Brian starts to stroke him.
"You know what, Moy, I'm wondering what my friends are doing on this moment. Laugh told me that I'm in a coma, so I guess that I'm laying in a hospital now� in my world. I wonder if I would ever find that door. It seems almost impossible to me� not that I will give up that easy. It's a weird thing to realise that the world that I know is not the only one�. I guess that when I ever get back, my life would never be the same again."
"Frot�.fffiends?"
"My friends? Yeah� I miss them already. I hadn't seen or talked to them for a while and I'm affraid it's gonna take some time before I can� I think you would have liked them, Moy. I also believe that Laughly would like them�. Shall my parents be very worried? And my brother? I think so, although I hope that they won't. I wish I could give them some kind of sign, that I am, some kind of, still alive�."
Brian's thoughts wander to his family and friends, suddenly he hears Moy growl.
"What's the matter Moy?"
Then he hears it too. The sounds of people who are talking and walking towards where they are sitting.
"I think we better hide, Moy." Brian looks around and then disappears with Moy in the bushes. There sitting he hears two guys talk.
"Those damn Eru's with their lake people. Who care about those people? They never make it so why should they worry."
"They said that a lake man was on his way to our town."
"And? I guess he would be scared away after he meets one of our folk."
"Well, I hope that they soon get him. Those Eru's scare the hell out of me�"
"You little coward."
"Well, you are not the brave also with them around."
The voices faded. Moy walked back towards the place they just had sit.
"Well, you say that it's save so I guess I can sit here again."
Moy lies next to Brian.
"Moy? Do you think that those Eru's are waiting for me? Or is there another person from the lake?"
Moy lifts his head up and looks in Brian's eyes.
"Dangerrrr Br�.."
"Am I in danger? So they are after me?"
"Frot!" says Moy agreeable.
"I'm hoping that nothing is going to happen with Laugh."
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