Hell Notes
The Lady: Rising Tide5/9/2019 Nothing. Nothing at all. I've checked every corner of the realm, but couldn't find a single sign of impeding doom. Are those rumours and premonitions all false? But those same voices were right, or at least close enough to the truth, times before. But this time it makes no sense at all. what they speak of is impossible, the boundary between the elements here were set in the base code, in the seed of it. This place was not built on the laws of mortal reality. Experiments of the other kinds residing here cannot rewrite the base code either, and I'm not about to go on some paranoid witch hunt "just in case". That's completely against our way of life, our purpose, and our spirit. Unless the flood they speak of is just metaphor for something else, it makes no sense at all.
There seem to be some critters, some bugs here and there. It's not always easy to tell if something is part of local circle of life, or is it some invasive or even parasitic species. It's not a lot, so I'm not bothered all that much, whichever the case with them. But I try to clean up some spots and see if it makes any difference at all, positive or negative. In the corner of my eye I see some kid shadowing me. My little stalker is hiding behind the trees. I pretend I see nothing and just continue with my maintenance. At least until some small hands began poking out of the bushes and stealing my tools, fallowed by distant quiet giggle, every time I'd turn away. Once.. Twice.. The third time was not the charm and I caught my little thief’s arm. "Got you! What you doing? Where are you parents?" I began interrogating little girl, that I just pulled out of bushes. "I don't have any." She seems a little startled, but not scared. "Huh? Where did you come from then?" "I was made by many." Her answers got me scratching my head, "What's your name?" "I'm Xi." "Oh!." Now it all made sense. "Wow.. You've changed a lot, I didn't recognize you." She looked so different, so lively. From a little terrified child to a confident teenager in such a short time. I was very surprised. But I was happy to see that fear in her eyes got replaced by joy and wonder. "All things grow faster in warm and nurturing places." "And you've grown a lot, so fast." "Maybe even more than you think.." Right after those words, she changed. From a teenager looking kid in to grown up young lady. And a very attractive one.. "How's this?" "Ehmm.. Whatever you are the most comfortable with.." I shouldn't be, but I still get startled by people doing any big and sudden changes to their appearance in front of me. My mind has to take a moment to catch up with the sudden shift of the atmosphere. "I have to speak with somebody about something important, but maybe after I can catch you for a chat?" "You already caught me.." "Huh?" Only then realized I'm still clutching her arm in my hand. "Oh, sorry." The moment I let go of her, she disappeared between the trees, with only a flirty smile for goodbye. It's all so calm and peaceful. It's been so long since my last visit I completely forgot how it feels to be here. The thick mist all around amplify this captivating stillness even more. "Sneaking up on me again?" Bee always moves around so silently. "Looks like you're having a moment." "It's lovely evening. Do you think we could clear up the fog for a moment and count the stars?" "Up to you, it's your world." "I merely gave it form. The rest of it is yours, the life of it - your doing." The sky lit up with billions of lights, billions of distant worlds. "So many.. Billions of years not enough to explore and experience it all, not even for small piece of it all." "Do we have billions of years?" "That's the question of the day.. They see you in their dreams." "Your new friends down there? Well they sometimes see you too in their dreams, don't they? Doesn't mean you are actually there, does it? Doesn't really mean you are not either. Always somewhere in between." "They speak of impossible things. I've failed to find anything. Everything as it always was and nothing really changed. The message makes no sense." "Not sure about sinking, but I have my concerns. Something did change." "What? Wait, you mean the child? How could she possibly cause anything as that?" "Maybe you are looking to it from the wrong angle? You took something that wasn't yours to take. At least not in the eyes of some people." "Them? But there is no way they could ever reach us here, can they?" "I'm a gardener, not a fortune teller. I don't know the future. But somebody was very keen on keeping her where she was. It would be unwise to underestimate them now and not to expect any blow back." "You actually think we should be worried?" "Your defence strategy rely on idea that they can't find us, reach us, that they can't build some bridge to lay siege on us. But those were some dark and long shadows down there, and no one really know what or who were they leading back to, who was behind it. Imagine they can reach us, what's the plan B? They got you beat up in a day down there, can we fare better here if they do cross the ocean?" "Well when you put it like that.. My defence policy might have few holes here and there. It does look rather flimsy." "Maybe you should consider asking some help, just in case?" "From who? I'm not the most popular person around.." "Your family." "Him? I don't feel very comfortable asking for favours, I'm supposed be able to handle my own matters by my self, by now, ideally. Just days ago I asked something and got a gift already.. " "..and you went ahead and used that gift to get your self in to some trouble." "I didn't expect it to actually work the way it did." "Well you have options, what are you the most willing to risk, or even to sacrifice? The child? This place? Or your own pride?" "Hmm first two are just unthinkable. The last one is just a bit uncomfortable. Very well then, we'll do what we can to prepare for whatever may or may not be coming for us."
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