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[b][color=662d91]Location:[/color][/b] Somewhere
[b][color=662d91]Interacting with:[/color][/b] [color=2e3192]Darkstar[/color]
[b][color=662d91]Curious & Interested[/color][/b]
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Once more Lucas found himself in the strange moon flowered garden he found himself not so long ago in. He woke up amid an opening of grass, from which traveled a gravel road flanked by the glowing white flowers. But what was truly strange was the fact that Lucas knew he was asleep. A little bit confused he stood up and followed the gravel path towards the gazebo. Knowing full well that the other side of it was a steep cliff into nothingness. Above him, the galaxy showed itself in the colors he thought only telescopes could reveal. Vibrant shapes of nebulae colored the heavens in red, green, purple and the darkest of blue. All upon a canvas of black dotted with innumerable silvery dots of light. This time, unafraid but curious he walked up towards the black hooded figure standing in the gazebo. [color=662d91]“Not going to expel me this time?”[/color] he asked as he took his place standing next to Darkstar.

[color=2e3192]“No.”[/color] The voice was distorted. Ethereal. Heavy. A power coursed through the very words it spoke. A power that was not there the last time. Yet it held no offense against Lucas.

[color=662d91]“That’s a start I suppose.”[/color] Lucas diverted his attention as the endless sight before him. Much like the night sky on earth, looking at it wouldn’t hint away any movement. But looking and looking back at it later would show how the whole heavens have shifted. Now too did the nebulae dance slowly across the eternal cosmos. [color=662d91]“Why did you bring me up here?”[/color] he then asked, still looking at the slow show before him.

[color=2e3192]“I brought you here to apologize.”[/color] Said the strange creature next to him, seemingly not taking away his vision either from the magnificent, colorful theater. [color=2e3192]“Something happened and… You were not supposed to find me yet.”[/color] It continued to explain. [color=2e3192]“I wish I could take it back.”[/color]

[color=662d91]“I don’t.”[/color] Said Lucas, as he stopped marveling at the skies and returned towards the white flowers. Which somehow looked equally fascinating. He never saw anything like them before. [color=662d91]“You saved me.”[/color] He continued. Everything felt so clear now. The illusions cast by the shades in the Red Level. How they forced him through such horrible things. He remembered vanishing, and when he got back everything was blackened by fire. Still, he knew it was the Darkstar that protected him then.

The Darkstar, floating off the ground followed him into the garden behind the gazebo. Silence fell over the place. Lucas took a seat on the grass, looking over the whole garden. [color=662d91]“What are you?”[/color]

[color=2e3192]“I could not tell you.”[/color] The cloaked figure kept his distance from the boy. [color=2e3192]“Explaining what I am would be akin to explaining an Egyptian farmer how Quantum Mechanics work. First I would have to teach you the very fundamentals upon which not just this realm was built, but the others as well. I would have to explain to you the many dimensions, of which your kin only knows 4 for certain. I am afraid, Lucas, that explaining what I am would cost you your life and that of a hundred generations after you.”[/color] It circled Lucas now, who kept perfectly still. [color=2e3192]“I know this is not the answer you desire. But comprehension is not infinite. It’s bordered by understanding.”[/color]

Lucas, for once, seemed to be content with that. He knew that pushing the thought was a bad idea. Or rather, it was a hopeless cause. [color=662d91]“Then where are we?”[/color]

[color=2e3192]“I can only offer you glimpses of the whole truth, considering your limited awareness of the universe.”[/color] When you blink, you’re only blind for a fraction of a second. But in that fraction, everything around Lucas had shifted. He found himself in a Japanese garden. In front of him there was a bridge leading to a small terrace with two chairs, a small, wooden table and two white cups with something steamy in it. The sky was blue with a cloud left and right. The sun stood high and warmed the world Lucas found himself in. An old man sat on one of the chairs, smoking a pipe crafted into an Asian dragon. The man was dressed in a long, colorful robe. Lucas knew it was the Darkstar. He crossed the bridge onto the little island and took a seat next to his own power. In front of him, he saw numerous streams flow in from an endless amount of directions. Even streams completely unsupported dropped in the creek before them that flowed around the little island there were on. The shores were flanked by blossoming cherry trees. Their pink petals dotting the flow every now and then. Yet up in the sky it betrayed that they were not on Earth. Huge orbs floated overhead. Moons either masive or incredibily close. But colorful and bright. [color=662d91]“Beautiful.”[/color]

[color=2e3192]“Look into the water, Lucas. What do you see?”[/color] the Darkstar asked him, and Lucas obeyed, looking over the side of his chair into the very clear water. He saw all kinds of life. Fishes, turtles, frogs. Some motionless in the water. Others going as the stream goes. Yet some creatures, like the little turtles, managed to get ashore for a moment to flap around or warm themselves in the sun. “Humans are fishes.” The Darkstar began to explain. [color=2e3192]“They must follow the stream. Once chosen a path, a fish cannot change it. This is true with humans and their relation towards time. Once committed to a path, one cannot change course. Fishes must follow the stream.”[/color] Lucas watched attentively. It was true, no fish was trying to swim against the current. [color=2e3192]“However, where we are, is here. On the island, -“[/color] [color=662d91]“Between time.”[/color] Lucas interrupted, observing the fish and other aquatic creatures. [color=662d91]“We… I am a turtle.”[/color] He followed up, looking at the small shells lying on the shore. [color=2e3192]“Very true.”[/color] A puff of smoke came from under the hood of Darkstar. [color=2e3192]“A glimpse of your power.”[/color] He added. But Lucas got up from the chair to the clear curiosity of the Darkstar. Who slightly turned it’s ‘head’. Lucas patiently waited, but lightning fast he grabbed a fish and pulled it out of the water. The initial movement seemed violent, but as he held the fish in his arm, walked across the little island towards the other side it was clear he had no ill will towards it. Slowly he released it into the other side of the island in which it swiftly continued on its journey. [color=662d91]“That’s a Darkstar power too, isn’t it?”[/color] he asked, standing knees deep in the temperate water towards the blackness of the hood where the Darkstar’s face was supposed to be. Instead, a puff of smoke rose from under the hood. [color=2e3192]“A fast learner, you are.”[/color] He followed up. [color=2e3192]“Sadly you are not entirely correct. Such movement is not that simple. There are other laws at work there.”[/color] Another blink and Lucas found himself back in the white flowered garden.

[color=662d91]“So this is an island in time?”[/color] Asked a still standing Lucas to nowhere in particular. As there was no Darkstar to be seen. But an ominous voice said: [color=2e3192]“Yes. Time has little to no meaning here. It a place disconnected from the stream.”[/color] Lucas nodded in understanding as he returned to the gazebo. Looking from the cliffside over down. Where there were still milky colors to be seen. [color=662d91]“It’s beautiful here. In this refuge from the flow. I wish I could come here more often.”[/color]

[color=2e3192]“In time. Even the turtle must learn how to swim ashore.”[/color] The ominous voice of the Darkstar commented. [color=2e3192]“However, even the turtle must return to the waters in time. I’m sorry, Lucas. I’m afraid you must go.”[/color] Lucas walked up towards the gazebo and watched down the cliff into the endlessly filled void. [color=662d91]“Goodbye.”[/color] He took a small jump and tumbled down. The next thing he knew, his eyes shot open to be greeted by the sun shining through his window.