1 Testing the theory

Liss dragged her feet toward the house's basement where her mom most likely still was trying to test her life mission project.

Since she was a little girl, her mother told her stories of a place she fell into in her teenage years. 

In a tribal world where the female-male ratio was unbalanced, there were no humans but orcs, which she explained as creatures who had their DNA mixed with certain species of animals and could transform at will into an animal or a humanoid. Liss mother told the stories of the time spent there. of the ten husbands of different species, had offspring and demanded that the girl call them brothers and help the advance of civilization.

Liss father tried everything he could to help his spouse, therapy, medication, and alternative methods, but to no avail, that was her goal. Trying to contact or even go back to that place. 

Liss mother never acted as a mother. In her eyes, the little girl was a tool to achieve her goals. Things took a turn for the worse when the man of the house left leaving the elder even more obsessed saying that in that world this would never happen.

"Hello Mom, did you stay all night here?"

The elder lay on her table with her paperwork spread messily under her. Her blond hair showing signs of age fell from her eyes when she sat back after hearing her daughter calm voice.

"I'm almost there, I can finally go back"

With a sneer on her face, the elder turned to face the one family she had left.

"I wonder what you are going to do when I'm gone" 

Liss mother was cold and mean but that never fazed the little girl. A thought drilled into her mind that the elder was struggling mentally with reality and that it was up to her, the immediate family, to take care and minimize the damage.

"Clean this mess, I'm going to take a bath and sleep"

"Yes ma'am"

The elder left leaving Liss to rearrange the place but looking closely she saw a miscalculation on the final parts of the tesis. 

Liss was her mother's assistant and learned with her to maximize the efficiency and so she was able to right the wrong.

Nearing a big round-shaped machine that was called a portal, Liss rearranged the pieces to the supposed place.

Liss turned around satisfied with her work and went to finish her chores. A sudden blinding light left the middle of the portal pulling Liss. At that moment she knew... that she was screwed.