(Myls)
The sun rose over a sleepless night.
With dawn ca the sight of the thing I rapidly had recognised after it landed.
The Snake.
Its humongous body covering the fields of ruins. Its head in between the two openings to the underground we used with Blu.
Its colours had changed, but there weren’t two birds like it.
Blu and I went in front of its head, so they could speak together.
I’m a bystander again. It ticks off. I’m left behind while she does the silent talking again with sothing inhuman.
M - I’m glad it’s still alive at least. Happy for it, whatever it is.
B - Biologically speaking, it’s related to birds, and probably Corvus.
M - So?
B - So if you give her so ti, she may learn to speak.
M - SO that huge dragon is a female... I wonder what her eggs would look like.
B - For what I can see, her reproductive organs are underdeveloped. She’s sterile. And she’s built as a complex chirism, so what would co out of an egg wouldn’t necessarily be like her at all.
M - Well... Now for the main topic... She didn’t co here randomly. So?
B - She says sothing like you’re part of her family.
Surprised at first, I then understand. It’s about Nightmare’s spawn inside of , growing peacefully along my muscles and bones from the mould on my arm. Most of the ti I forget about it.
I guess Snake slls a little brother or sister being hidden inside of .
The tip of the giant tongue of the beast cos close to . Its mouth could swallow trucks whole.
I accept to put my hand in contact with the tip of that carpet of soft flesh.
It’s as gooey as you’d expect. Yuck.
M - She said Nightmare really liked you. And therefore you’re important to her too now... I think she was lonely.
I guess that giant monster did feel lonely, losing her creator at the ti.
Possibly for the first ti, she was alone. I feel so sympathy for a being such as her.
The tip of the tongue is so squishy, it almost swallows my hand. My fingers sink in it.
She pulls one step forward with ease.
She releases before I trip or start yelling my way out.
M - I know she can keeps things alive sowhere in that mouth, but if we are to travel together, I want to ride on top.
Blu translates. Then Snake stretches its closest wing until its tip reaches us. It makes a long ramp curving to its back so we can climb.
M - That will save us a lot of ti.
B - True, but we shouldn’t push her too much. Her body isn’t as strong as it looks.
M - I will let you be her voice of reason then.
Blu made a sad smile. What I said reminded her of sothing she didn’t want to share.
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I brought even the motorcycle up there. We could build a town atop Snake.
M - First goal is that place in the Himalayan chain then?
B - No. It’s the nearest forest. Snake needs to feed.
M - Alright.
So do I.
Blu can stay longer without solid food, she just spreads the leaves covering her body during the day.
Snake raises her head, with us above.
She raises herself like a normal snake about to bite or jump I guess.
The wings are spread. I’m told to hold myself.
Snake jumps and lifts off as if the world fell below us. The sudden acceleration knocks out.
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Sothing like a warm feeling rose inside of while I was unconscious. Like an affective connection between the thing inside of , and the thing outside of . Two different spawns of the sa nightmare. They feel sothing for each other. A relief against loneliness I guess.
I’m just in the way, a carrier, but they don’t mind .
Both of them have agreed to help ...
I gently wake up to the sight of the flowery construct Blu has beco, when looked at from the back. The sky runs behind.
Giant wings are flapping. And I feel like I’m on a boat on a sea with very large and high waves.
We’re flying above the desert, away from this forsaken land of the sun.
I sit up. Blu cos to check on .
The sights are nice and painful to .
B - How do you feel Myls?
M - Odd...
B - Both of them are reaching out to you. I think they like you.
M - I’m not sure I should rejoice to be the centre of attention of monsters. I’m not Rose.
B - ...
Blu is thinking or day-dreaming about sothing.
B - You know... There are a few aspects where we are very much like humans and other living things. We aim to survive first. There’s loneliness we feel when we’re in the dark and alone too. The relief and the emotional affection when we find a familiar face is another. I know you and Zeslinry survived for so long precisely because you avoided all contacts with beings-like-...
M - What’s your point?
B - The way you felt about , or even about Rose... I’d be relieved to hear you open it to Snake and the other one similarly.
M - I’m already doing that.
B - You’re right...
Blu turns around and leaves sulking. I hate when I feel like that. Like I’m right but also wrong or immature.
Or maybe I’m annoyed because for a minute she sounded like Zes...
Neither of these two monsters speaks to in words. But so fuzzy feelings still go through to , through . It scares a little...
Rose always ran with open arms to every one of them like a stupid kid. And she died so many tis.
Blu once said that Rose’s average lifespan was below two years. That’s ridiculous. But it shows how dreadful the world is now to humans.
What more risks should I take? I’m already far too bold for my own sake...
I wanted to leave, to travel. On my bad days, I regret it... Maybe we should have stayed in the roses garden.
Now I’m feeling bad. But I can redirect that toward my foe. I can turn it into resentnt against Magenta...
I’ll do whatever it takes.
And if that includes befriending demons, giant monsters and intelligent diseases, so be it.
All so that it goes down in flas.
I’m surrounded by freaks. Insults to nature. And I’m willing to play along.
And maybe we don’t feel that lonely anymore because of it.
I stand up, my heartbeat rising.
Sothing I feel, we share. I can feel their reply. It’s confidence.
We’ll work together. We’ll accomplish sothing big together.
We’ll bring the power of the sun sowhere beyond the sky.
Together, we will bring doom to the magenta god.
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