Pandora didn’t want to tell her for real what she was doing, her plans and she was exceedingly sheepish about the situation but maybe , in that circumstance, Rukia was the best thing that she could looking for.
The woman was waiting for a reply and, to get free, the priestess had to make clear the events which took her there.
“It’s hard to explain.” The woman sighed in distress.
“There is a prediction that at this time, Athena will be destroyed by the Lord of the Underworld and the Lord of the Seas.
The same prophecy talks about a weapon, an exceptional arm that will be able to destroy her and her knights.
By this, all this world will be in the hands of my Lord.”
Pandora took a moment to breath, she was whispering more or less. She started to feel chocked up, the fear that her Lord could discover her.
“I found out a map…” She started shaking.
“This is a medieval map that conducts you to that weapon.
This, put into words, says that you have to start from the Giudecca and it’s what I did. From the center of the Earth. I just followed it…”
“There is a passageway that nobody knows except me, my Lord, Hypnos and Thanatos. This is a cave erected when Lucifer was rejected by the Heaven, the Elysium.
We still use it as transit from Underworld to mortal one. It’s just a grotto that only us can use because is counter- current to the River Lethe. This one carries the sins of people to the Hell. Any human who tries to go to the Underworld or try to escape from there, just die.”
They listened a noise, the voice of Pandora was an echo on that pitch dark environment.
“In a nutshell, I started to walk through the hall but there was a problem. By the nearly end of the cave I should have seen the sky, the colours of a sunset; you know that fieble light of the winter and the first stars to bright as the Souther Cross costellation.
Nothing of this was in front of my eyes. I thought in a sunrise when I peered out the grotto.
It was so weird because a guilch or better a canyon was what has given me the welcome.
It was very dark but I started to walk there. I could see the shades of the rocks of the canyon: fire red, white and yellow-ochre.
At the end of this gully I was in front of an open space. Finally the sky was open and I could ascertain that was like 6 o’clock.”
Here she was full of astonishment thinking of what she has seen in that moment.
“Flabbergasted Rukia… the El khasneh in all its beauty…”
She took another moment to come back to the real world.
“I have always known about a treasure there but I didn’t know what does it matter with what I was looking for.”
“Despite this, I think someone assaulted me… and here we are.”
—[ 氷の女王]— Anyone would had arrived at the same conclusion that she got while was listening Pandora’s explanation, that she is simply insane and lacks of common sense. The things that some does for love and power. Rukia did not like the atmosphere of the cave, there was something sinister in the air and he wished to leave as soon as possible. The Shinigami assumed that whatever she was doing created the atmosphere, plus she suspects she is not being completely honest. Probable she summoned something and it went out of her control and it attacked her.
“Pandora, relax, I’m here now I’ll try to help you in whatever I can.” Whispered calmly without judge her, was important make her feel alright. She looked around, trying to find a clue of her true intentions, an evidence. But it was really dark and the fact that they were in a cave and she was talking about Petra did her think she was raving. Rukia helped her to stand up and began to walk to the exit. “Let’s get out of this horrible place. I can teleport you somewhere in earth as well, or if you are really scared to come back to Underworld, you can come to Soul Society a few days.” She turned herself to watch if she was following. “Pandora-sama?”