The robed figure pauses. He was about to put down the axe in Saif's chest, as how things should go, but he stops before he swings. He slowly lowers his hands until they fall completely beside himself. He then raises one hand to his side, and suddenly, the other robed figures stop chanting, and it becomes complete silence. No one is moving, nor dares to move. Saif's heart is pounding fast, and so is his breathing, but his smile is still on his face, with, for some reason, an expression of joy, entertainment, and confidence. He doesn't understand why, but it feels like the most right thing to feel. The robed figure lifts the dangling cloth piece off his face slightly to reveal a mouth. Saif was surprised, as he thought they were just things of cloth and not people, but now that he thinks about it, he already knew they were people as he kept calling them that too. The jaw of the robed figure was sharper than most, with a hint of an unshaved face. The figure then says words that Saif understands, other than the chants he knew didn't mean well, and the figure said, "What are you, and how much do you remember?"
At hearing those words, Saif froze for a moment as those were the same words the person always told him. This confirmed it with no doubt that she was working with them, even though he was convinced, but this killed all the doubt and faith in her he still had. Saif then replies, "Whay dou yuu asskeh tha ssammm daammn quesshons? (Why do you always ask the same damn questions?)" With a bit of annoyance in his tone. The figure doesn't reply for a small moment of pure silence, then he says, "Well, I wouldn't be asking if you would have just answered it initially. That would save us a lot of time you know." He then pauses for a moment before continuing, "You seem to remember a lot if you are able to talk, so let me cut to the chase." He then uncovers his full face and head from all the cloth, revealing all of it, but Saif can't really pay too much attention to detail, but he is able to see that his face looks close to handsome, but like someone who is almost over worked in an office space, but he is sharp looking, but with a playful carefree looking face. How does he know all of this? And how isn't that the full detail? Doesn't matter right now. He was also able to see a big scar on his cheek that goes under his left eye. The new person then lowers his head to Saif's level and then talks in a threatening but fake concerned voice with a lot of carefreeness and mature playful and with a huge amount of confidence, "The thing is, you are gonna die anyway. There is no possible way for you to escape. So, help me so I can help you. Help me get to know how much you know about your abilities, and I will help you by trying my best to give you... a painless death!" He says as he then puts his hand on Saif's arm and pulls him downward hard, making him scream out in pain and anongy from his destroyed wrist.
"So, am I clear?" He says with a creepy confident smile as Saif is screaming in agony. While in pain, Saif thinks of what this new person means by "abilities". What could he have meant? And what do he mean by giving him a painless death? Could he have always given him one but chose to leave him in pain!? Saif clenches his teeth together while in pain, but then tries to calm himself down and tries to not let the pain take over. He wants something. He knows that Saif is in a constant loop and will always live and get to this point, and there is no escape.
(Let me make this clear, that's what Saif thinks as the new person doesn't know about his ability of loops, bit Saif doesn't know that as for them, death means the end, so he doesn't know that what the new person means by this and thinks for now that its normal to loop, and that's why he doesn't know what he means by ability, as to him, this is the norm, even if it felt off at first. And as too many things happened at once, he couldn't really rationalise his loop ability all too much, as if he thought about it for just a little bit, he will find that his logic doesn't make any sense. I know this breaks the rule of show and not tell, but I just don't want you dear reader to be confused.)
Saif feels cornered, feeling helpless in this situation. What will go wrong anyways if he just gave him what he wants. A lot. But won'tl he hurt me either way, at least in this one I have an option to how painful it is. You think he is telling the truth? He is obviously a liar. I know, but what other choice do I have? At least now I will have something new happening,right. Something else I can do, instead of just getting killed immediately. At least this would be a change of pace. I guess I... you? Me? No, I have a point. Sounds more fitting. Anyway, he wants something of me... my ability and how much I remember and what I am. Is my ability and what I am related, or is it with memory. Oh I don't know, I should just ask. Saif looks up at him, with a small amount of motion with his head, and mostly his eyes. He then asks, "Whhatt duu yuu wuntah tou noou specifiklie? Ie duont underr stantah wahtuwantah. (What do you want to know specifically? I don't understand what you want.)" The new person looks pleased as he then replies, but with a small pause before he does say anything, and with a creepy smile in that pause. After it, he says, "Well, that answers at least one of my questions. But I am surprised it didn't activate automatically. Or maybe you just never realised that it happened. Hmm, no matter, just tell me if anything strange happened lately. Something only you can do." Saif pauses for a moment and doesn't know how to answer that. Something only he can do? What? He thinks for a long while, with silence filling between them. Saif then says after a long while of serious thought, "Ie duont noou. (I don't know.)"
"Hmm." That's all the new person let out. A quizzical 'hmm' that felt ominous. To Saif's perspective, due to the lightning, he can't see his face, nor his entire front side, and it's all just dark to him. The silence was deafening, and Saif's nerves were all screaming the same thing, 'You messed up!' And 'Run!' More egregious silence filled between them before he finally spoke. He raised his head up as light now illuminated his face filled with mature playfulness and said that it's fine that he doesn't know, as at the end of the day, he just woke up yesterday. But his last word resonated with Saif. Yesterday? Didn't a few days already pass? Before he can think more about it, the new person then stomps his foot on the ground, letting out a loud roar eco throw the empty void, startling the daylight out of Saif as he flinches like crazy and literally jumps back, pulling on his wrist, making him grunt in horrible pain. The new person then walks really close to Saif, and now all his front side isn't illuminated again at all, and the only thing Saif can see is his eyes looking down on him. They stay like this for a moment till the new person says, "Listen, I get you aren't in the best place mentally, as you literally went insane a few minutes ago, so let me make myself clear. (He lowers himself, but this time not to the side of Saif's face. Now, his face is right in front of Saif's, and all Saif can see is his eyes that are piercing his soul. The new person lowers his pitch, and then says coldly) So listen to me, I know something with you is off, so don't take me as just a fucking idiot, okay? And I know for a fact that you haven't gone insane. You slipped up the moment you spoke, as there is no way a thing like you can recall how to speak in just a day and a half! But you wouldn't know that now would you? (He then stays an uncomfortable amount of time just silent and staring. Then he says in a harsher and colder voice) So listen up as I am running out of patience here. Tell me what the hell you are, and how long have you really been awake for!?" Saif swallowed hard. His fear growing with every second and every word that he spoke. He doesn't understand what the new person means or wants, but he knows if he doesn't give him something, things will end really badly!