There was a small crawlspace in the room behind the barricade, it was the only way forwards that I could find.

It led outside, to a small forest.

I looked back where I had come from and there was an exit for Trico, he just had to jump for it.

It was nice to be outside again but it was getting dark, it had been a long day and I had no artificial source of light, apart from the torches, to use at night.

It was time to stop for the night.

Trico seemed to understand, because he let me use him as a pillow.

I didn't get a lot of sleep that night, I could have used more but what I got was enough.

We set off again in the morning.

Trico was roaring again at the tower, I knew that we had to go there. It was the only clue that I had to finding Jack that didn't involve what I knew about the progression of the main story line.

The only way forward was to hang onto Trico as he jumped over a very tall wall of the ruin but there was something weird here.

It was a stained glass window piece with a yellow eye in the middle of it.

I climbed down from Trico to get a better look at it but when I got close to it, my vision glitched out.

The yellow eye was now green and I could feel something breathing down my neck but when I turned around...

There was nothing behind me.

I fell to my knees and I started to throw up more of that black gunk from earlier, back in that cave.

I wiped my mouth on the back of my hand when I was done, it hadn't hurt this time and that worried me.

I shook my head and I decided to forget about it.

I pushed the eye off of the ledge, but what I saw after walking up a staircase, make me freeze.

I had a pretty good idea of where we was now.

I took my glasses off and I put them in a padded case that I had taken from that Mart. I didn't want to risk them being broken or lost due to the event that was about to happen.

The case was put in my rucksack and I tightened the straps on the mirror, it could be useful later.

There was two different ways that I could get there, one was a small tunnel, while the other passageway was big enough for Trico.

I kept one hand on the wall as I went up the staircase, coming to a crossroads, one path lead to a dead end while the other path was blocked by a metal gate.

Trico followed me.

The small tunnel passageway had a dead end with a barrel in it, I found this out when I retraced my steps.

I bought the barrel with me as I made my way back to the metal gate, Trico ate the barrel but I noticed that he seemed to be a bit uneasy.

And I was too.

Trico then spotted another barrel behind the gate, I had to squint to see it but that was all I could figure out about what was beyond the gate.

I could see light streaming in from a hole in the room that we were currently in, a hole big enough for a child, as long as they could get up there.

I had to jump from Trico's head to reach that hole, which led to a narrow passageway with a series of ledges to travel on.

I couldn't see the floor, because there wasn't a floor here, it was just a fog. I couldn't see if there was one.

The first ledge was directly across from me, that was then followed by a ledge underneath that I could walk on.

There was another ledge above that and once I had climbed onto it, I could jump back across to the side that I started from, to reach a doorway that let me back in.

This new room was directly behind the gate, I had to get down first before I could look around. There was two ways out of this room, three if you included the gate once it had been opened, but that was it.

I pulled the lever down to let Trico in, the barrel was the first th thing that we dealt with once Trico had entered the room but he didn't eat it.

I really wanted to turn back but this was the only way that we could go, even if there was a wooden barricade in the way.

I can't really describe what I felt when I saw the resonator for the first time, the metal cage and it's glowing bars.

I felt so small.

The roof of this room was open to the sky and you could see the tower from here, I could barely see the gate that was between us and the soldiers that were behind it.

I thought that I could see something moving behind it.

I dropped down, coming face to face with what could be the resonating crystal that powered this cage, locked away behind iron bars.

There was a blue tinged sealed door here too, right next to the crystal, it didn't really look like a door but it did look a lot like one.

I could hear the moment when Trico jumped down, I closed my eyes and I told myself not to look, even when I heard the crystal start to resonate with Trico's horns.

I just wanted this to be over with as soon as possible, but when I heard noises in front of me, I opened my eyes to see that behind the gate, the soldiers were chasing someone.

I started to run towards the gate and when I got close enough to see who it was, I screamed.

"JACK!"

But I had forgotten what was behind me.

My feet left the ground and I was tossed up into the air before something dark and wet closed over me.

And then, there was nothing.