"I'm trying to get some food. Do you want us to starve to death in here?"

"You could have just continued explaining the situation to him. You didn't have to show your face. We don't know if the air is contaminated or not, and of course, your face would frighten him. Even I was frightened by it."

He said it sarcastically. Eyad's features contorted with anger and wrath. "I don't see that the air is contaminated because I can breathe easily," he shouted. "But do you want us to just sit here until we die? We have to escape from here now!"

Their argument was cut off by the entrance of the two guards and the jailer behind them, who was looking at Eyad's face with fear and astonishment.

The guards' expressions changed as they watched his face, and one of them signaled to the other to go and get the others. A few minutes later, Minora and the old man returned, accompanied by the sullen-faced young man. They looked at Eyad with a mixture of astonishment and fear, and he, in turn, returned their gazes with looks of hatred and anger. His face had captured their attention and interest, and in their eyes, he had acquired a mythical meaning. They soon began to argue about what they were seeing. Eyad pointed to his mouth and stomach, explaining to them in sign language that he was hungry. This time they understood what he meant. Minora went to get them some food.

Omar watched the situation closely with apprehension and tension, fearing that their sight of Eyad's face would pose some danger to him, such as them performing heinous experiments on him to find out his physiological composition. After a few minutes, Minora returned carrying a wooden basket, inside which were some strange fruits and meats. The meats were a dark blue color, and the fruits ranged from blue to green and yellow in strange shapes and sizes they had never seen before. Eyad looked at the food with skepticism and began to feel it.

"Don't eat these things," Omar warned him. "We don't know if they are edible for us or not."

"It doesn't matter," Eyad said, unconcerned, as he took the first bite of a blue, apple-like fruit. "We'll die of hunger if we don't die from these fruits. If I'm going to die anyway, I'd rather die with a full stomach."

The creatures gasped with amazement and astonishment as they saw him eat, as if they were seeing an unknown animal eating for the first time. Eyad looked at them with displeasure, furrowed his brows, turned his back to them like a small monkey, and began to eat without them seeing him.

After he had finished most of what was in the basket, he felt greatly relieved; he had not eaten since he had left Atlantis. Omar watched for anything to happen to him, any change, but nothing.

Minora offered another basket to Omar, who took it cautiously, examining its contents. He did not want to take off his mask and start eating until he was sure that nothing would happen to Eyad, so he decided to wait for another hour. After an hour of commotion, with creatures coming and going, Omar decided to take off his helmet and eat after he was sure that no harm had come to Eyad.

As soon as he took off his helmet, the creatures were surprised by his appearance as well, as had happened when they saw Eyad. Omar had slightly curly black hair, a well-groomed and connected mustache and beard, and his Arab features showed dignity and tolerance. He wore medical glasses that covered his small, narrow eyes.

Everyone looked at him with surprise, even Eyad himself, because he had never seen his face before. And so, after the hubbub had ended, the creatures left, leaving them with the frightened jailer again. Both Omar and Eyad felt tired and exhausted, and soon they fell into a deep sleep. They did not wake up until a few hours after sunrise. The sun's rays were filtering into the prison, illuminating it a little, while some candles with blue flames were lighting the rest of the prison.

Minora and the old man returned in the morning, this time accompanied by Jarin. As soon as Eyad saw Jarin, he shouted at him angrily, feeling his betrayal. "You cunning, deceitful creature! You deceived me and lured me into your trap so you could experiment on us! Get me out of here at once and take me back to where I came from so I can check on my comrades!"

Jarin looked at him with a flood of confused emotions and embarrassment, but he was able to understand that he was angry with him because they had imprisoned him here and that he was the one who had brought him here in the first place.

"I don't know if it's just me," Omar said with sarcasm and humor, "or if these creatures are smarter than you. I've said it a million times, they don't understand what you're saying."

Eyad's face contorted, and he looked at Omar with a frown, saying in a resonant tone, "I knew they didn't understand my words, but I had to vent my anger on someone."

Omar fell silent, turned his face away, and looked at Jarin, whose expression had changed upon seeing their faces. He approached them, contemplating them with fear and caution. Eyad stood up and began to pace the cell slowly, back and forth, like a lion in its cage. After a few moments, Minora approached Omar, holding what appeared to be a writing slate or a small blackboard in her hand. She brought the slate to him and showed him some letters. She began to pronounce the first letter and repeat it, pointing to him with a bright smile for him to pronounce it. Omar pronounced it, while Eyad protested in a sharp voice, "For God's sake, are we going to learn the alphabet again like children? I don't have time for this nonsense!"

"This is the only way to cooperate with them and understand everything from them. Don't you know that if we return with such discoveries, they will receive us as heroes? And we may also learn many secrets that describe the reasons for the changes on our planet. Believe me, this is something exciting, and that is why you should not look at such a discovery as something frightening or useless nonsense."

"But... how long will we be here in this state?"

"Not long. Using the suit, we will try to learn quickly. And that is why, don't forget that the modifications made to us included a strong memory. Also, the suit keeps data of everything we see, so we won't forget anything. And as soon as we learn the basics of their language, it will be easy to master it or to translate their words through the suit after we add their language to the languages that the suit includes."

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