Episode 3

Taya...

I was about to die of fear, I've never been woken up like this, where am I? Who is this madman yelling at me? And where are his clothes? I immediately cover my eyes and turn away so as not to see him. He's practically naked, wearing a small piece of cloth placed on his body.

"Listen here, my girl! I don't know who you are or how much Burak paid you to play this unfunny joke on me, so I suggest you get out of my sight!" He says.

"Stop screaming! Listen here, you! How dare you speak to me like that? And go put some clothes on!" I say, still with my back to him.

He laughed like a madman and, suddenly, I feel his hand on my arm, turning me around. His eyes meet mine, his gaze brings a strange shiver down my spine.

"Who are you? What are you doing in my house?" He asks.

"I am Princess Taya, from the kingdom of Sardinia."

"You must have mental problems, surely you do! No one in their right mind would dare do such a thing. I'll give you one more chance, who are you, what are you doing here in my house?" He asks.

"I am Taya, from the kingdom of Sardinia." I say, already without any patience.

"You're going to continue with this little game, right? Fine."

He was talking when a small, rectangular, black thing started making noise, like an instrument playing; I had never seen anything like it.

"Just a minute." He says, pointing his finger at me, picks up that small thing, puts it to his ear and starts talking to it. So, I'm the crazy one then.

"You have the nerve to still call to see if your joke worked, right? That wasn't funny, Burak." He speaks to that thing.

"Don't you know what I'm talking about? I know you're behind this, this time you've gone too far." He yells.

"Come to my house right now, Burak!" He shouts and throws that thing on top of this very strange bed.

Then he turns to me.

"And you're not leaving here until we clear this up!" He says, pointing his finger in my face, it irritates me so much that I grab his finger and almost break it.

"Ouch, you crazy woman!" He says, pulling his finger away.

"Don't you ever point that finger at me again!" I say firmly to him.

"You are very bold, I will sue you."

He says things I've never heard in my life.

Sue?

He leaves the room we're in and slams the door, then I hear a noise, I run to try to open the door and then I realize he locked me in.

My stomach makes an absurd noise, I'm hungry, thirsty and my bladder is about to burst. I need to pee!

I look under this bed and I can't find the chamber pot. Where does this madman relieve himself?

I start banging on the door and yelling.

"Open this door! You can't lock me in here!"

This ring of Asnam has brought me to a completely unknown kingdom. On the bright side, I got rid of Prince Cuskun's ass face.

"Get me out of here!"

Then I hear footsteps coming. The door opens and it's the madman with another man, who's dressed very strangely. What is this place? Why are these people so strange?

"Brother, this princess is very beautiful. Nice to meet you, I'm Burak." He approaches, takes my hand and kisses my face.

What audacity! I slap him in the face.

"How dare you? Respect me, I am not your wife for you to treat me with intimacy." I say and he looks at me, massaging his face.

"Heavy hand, huh princess..." He says.

"Are you sure it wasn't you who paid her to do this whole charade?" The madman asks the bold one.

"No, brother, I've never even seen this girl."

"If he didn't pay you, who did?" He turns to me.

"I don't know how I got here, I just know that my father forced me to marry Prince Cuskun of Alexandrite, the last memory I have is being in the carriage with that disgusting man, that's when I started to wish that my fate would be changed, and then I was disrespectfully woken up by you." I say.

"Brother, this woman must be high or really crazy." The Burak guy says.

"I'm not crazy, and I'm not that other thing you said either!"

"I know how to find out how you got in here. Come with me!" Says the idiot who still hasn't put on any clothes. He takes me by the hand and drags me away. I pull my hand away abruptly.

"I'm not going anywhere, one more step and I'm going to pee my pants." I say.

"All right, you can use the bathroom. It's right there."

"Bathroom?"

"Yes, my girl, bathroom."

"I don't know what a bathroom is."

"Oh my God! Are you trying to drive me crazy? Stop pretending. The bathroom is over there." He says, pointing to the door.

I go to this bathroom and when I enter it's a place with a mirror, a thing that looks like the same material as the chamber pots in Sardinia. Is this his chamber pot?

I go back to the room to ask.

"Is that white thing stuck to the floor the chamber pot?"

The two idiots look at each other and start laughing.

"What's so funny?" I ask.

"Please, Burak, introduce the bathroom to this crazy woman."

Not wanting to argue anymore and because I'm about to pee myself, I ignore the fact that he called me crazy.

"So, princess, I'm going to introduce you to the bathroom, this is where we do all our hygiene and physiological needs. In other words: here we take a bath, and this thing here is the toilet where you pee and poop." He says it in a funny way, so I end up smiling.

"You are even more beautiful when you smile." He says and then my smile fades and gives way to a serious expression.

"I complimented you too much." He says.

"Now that I know, may I be excused?"

"By all means. Just one more detail, this button here flushes, once you're done, press it. And here you wash your hands." He says and leaves, leaving me alone.

Desperate, I lift up all my clothes and sit on that thing, which is quite comfortable, it feels like I'm peeing out all the water in Sardinia.

After I finished, I pressed where he said, and wow! That's like magic! If Asnam saw this here, he'd be as surprised as I am. I know what this is for, the difference is that there's no maid holding it, it's the towel that we use to clean our private area after relieving ourselves. I clean myself, wash my hands and I don't know how the water comes out hot, this kingdom is much more evolved!

I go back to the room and then, without saying anything, he just signals for me to follow him and so I do. I keep observing everything. It's very different, there's no gold and no precious stones, there are no frames like there are in the castle, the walls are gray like the clouds on rainy days, there are squares scribbled in black and white. This castle seems very sad and gloomy.

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