He went through a lot since stepping out from the academy main gate. And frankly, he didn't imagine one tenth of all these adventures and battles at that moment.
Yet he wasn't feeling any stress or pressure. In fact, such a kind of life suited him perfectly well, much better than the peaceful life back at the academy.
He slept like a baby for ten hours straight and didn't wake up on his own. Thomas kept shaking him off, until William opened his eyes in a lazy manner.
"What time is it?" he yawned, asking while rubbing his eyes. On the opposite, Thomas was like someone who saw a nightmare or some freakishly scary monster.
"There… There is something inside that building!" and what Thomas said kicked away all sleep from William's eyes.
He abruptly stood up, while his mind returned to work on full cylinders. He grabbed Thomas and asked in a loud tone:
"What did you find? A statue?"
"Statue? No, not like that…" Thomas felt puzzled for a second. And as he looked like this, all the hype William got plummeted at once.
"Then what?" William relaxed his arms, looked at the direction of the building, "what's in there?"
"An eye!" The words Thomas said didn't make any sense at first, before he added, "the design of all the stars there is like an eye."
"You just scared me for a second there, you do know that?" William took a deep breath, before adding, "show me the drawing you made, let me see by myself…"
Just before he'd continue what he'd say, he spotted many scrolls gathered up at a spot not far from here. It was like what he did with the scrolls Thomas drew before. But they were much smaller in number, and they were in a different place than what William placed his scrolls at.
William moved his eyes around, and as he guessed, these scrolls were new. "Did you copy me?" William asked in curiosity, and Thomas nodded.
"I just… I wanted to help and save you time… Plus I felt like the entire building was special in a way… In a mysterious way…"
William got what Thomas meant. This dude seemed to get the same hunch as him. "For me to feel something is normal, but for Thomas as well? That's absurd!" William didn't miss this point, while following Thomas back to the scrolls.
And there he got what Thomas meant before. The scrolls the latter drew were looking normal at first. But when they were placed next to each other, a grand picture of an eye appeared there.
And that made William move his eyes around, back to where he arranged the scrolls at. "An eye… An eye with elliptical iris… Just like the eye of a wolf or… A fox!" His eyes shone brightly when he guessed this simple, yet shocking, thing.
"Come, help me move these scrolls there," William knew he got a clue about what he was looking for at last. He knew a statue of a fox, one that was as grand as the ones he saw before when he met the Transformers, wouldn't be hidden just simply in the open.
And when he moved the scrolls with the help of Thomas, he finally got to see something new.
"This… Is it part of a face or I'm imagining things?" Thomas stood by William's side, scratching his head as he didn't totally believe his eyes.
The scrolls didn't look like anything at first. But when the two placed the building's scrolls in the right spot, a new thing appeared.
It was as if one was drawing an image, and just finished part of a face. In front of their eyes, part of the forehead, alongside the nasal bridge, and an eye appeared, in addition to part of the oval shaped face appeared.
"This building…" and as William saw this part of a face in front of him, he hurriedly turned around and checked the entire territory, "seven buildings… two for the eyes, two for the nostrils, one for the chin, one for the mouth… That leaves the final one as a mystery…"
He realised now what this entire territory and its traps were… All of this was a grand drawing of a face! And he didn't need to complete it to know what it depicted; it was indeed the face of that old fox Transformer.
But that wasn't what piqued his interest, the mysterious seventh building was. "I'm sure the central one is the key to all this," he muttered before turning to Thomas and added, "draw everything around the central big building. Leave it for later."
"Ok," Thomas didn't get what went inside William's mind, but he already started to fully trust him. And so, he returned to continue working, leaving behind William, who kept looking and studying the entire grand collection of scrolls.
Things went out in such a pattern for days! William didn't hold himself back from damaging the traps. He learnt from his previous lesson. And so, he deactivated the traps on a regular pace, making sure to not have lots of traps around any building anymore.
Like this, Thomas would map out the entire area around any building, while William worked from behind and deactivated these traps. Then as they arrived at a building, Thomas would take hours to fully draw a single building.
"Another eye… One nostril… Another nostril…" after doing this for five days, William finally stood in front of the scrolls scattered on the ground.
Right now, more scrolls were added, and more parts of the drawing appeared. As he expected, it showed the face of a humanoid fox, the face of that dude.
"We mapped out six buildings… The one in the centre is the only one remaining…"
After one more day, Thomas finished drawing scrolls related to the sixth building. And with it, the entire picture of this face was completed.
The mouth was slightly opened, with an elliptical space left between the nose and mouth.
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