Everything around became quiet.
From the sounds of galloping, metals violently colliding with each other, screams that are swallowed up into the horizon, and blood that flowed onto the dry land, have already disappeared like a distant dream.
Or so he thought as he reached the blackness surrounding him.
"This is what death looks like" he seemed to whisper into the darkness as he just looked at him, not understanding what exactly was happening. He no longer has a form, body, or meaning to him, but he continues to hover there while wherever his body was, resting on the ground somewhere else, he would probably never know what he fought for and what would happen after him.
What a pity.
Oh well, that's not my problem.
As if he heard my thoughts, he turned to me and started to get closer and closer to me and stood right in front of me. He looks much bigger than me when he is close to me.
"What is it?" He just looks at me while she looks back at him.
It's a staredown, isn't it? Not like he or I have anything better to do than stare into the surrounding darkness.
We looked at each other for... I don't know, does time exist here? Until he turned around for a moment. This is my victory!
"I guess God didn't exactly like the way my life was going, so they just put me with an overgrown rooster here" He looked back at me, standing in front of me like a low tree and continuing to look at me.
[Excuse me? An overgrown rooster?! What is a rooster in the first place? And secondly, I'm not that fat, it's all feathers and muscles!]
I continued to complain to him while he just continued to stare at me before I stopped for a moment looking at him while he looked back at me with the same glare. I feel annoyed
[Listen here.... Low tree! I don't know who you are and why you are starting to insult me, if you call it an insult, I will already show you what the insult should be]
I started insulting him, and a lot!
But he just looked at me with a look that only got more and more surprised. Until he broke my streak of insults:
"Wait, do you understand me?" He looked at me and bent towards me. I didn't realize what happened until it was too late and he grabbed me and held me up in front of him with what you can tell is his face: an incredibly soft beak, with... a flexible nose separated from his beak and what is that sticking out of his beak?! He is ugly!
"I don't know why I'm here, or why you're here, but I know I'm no longer on the battlefield"
It is obvious, you are not on the battlefield of trees like you! I saw how you died! You just came from there to me! I was here first, first of all, an intruder! You gave me death like a dove that crashed into a tree! pathetic!
He just kept looking at me and examining every corner of me before I raised my beak and tried to stab him in the head, but it went through him like water.
[How can you pick me up but I can't do anything to you! Heard here as a piece of rotten wood!]
I just kept complaining to him before placing me back on the flat black ground before I calmed down and he moved away from me.
[I'm still not done with you! come back here before...]
"You can shut your beak, you overgrown chicken! I think I heard something"
[What exactly did I hear here? It's just the two of us here! Only your voices and my tweets here, how can you hear anything there?!]
Suddenly there is a loud sound of something that seems like a thump. The darkness began to lighten from one direction and I looked at him just as he looked at the source of the light. More than that, my instincts told me one thing - to get out of there. Suddenly the light began to brighten and reveal shapes from what was before. I approached him gently like a moth to a fire. The low tree remained in place before facing me as I gently advanced.
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I was so close to the light, to get out and run from this insulting tree and back to the forest and the arid mountains. I've spent too much time in this darkness!
Suddenly, my giant beak collided with something in front of the light. I don't understand what happened and I'm just trying to push and poke at what's in front of me, but I don't understand exactly why I can't move forward.
[Just let me through!]
The low tree also moved forward but something resembling bare wings moved towards where I was trying to pass, in something invisible but it also failed.
"I don't know where we are, but we seem to be stuck here," he said
[It's clear as day that I'm stuck here, along with you!]
My instincts just keep popping up and explaining that 'we have to get out of here' but I manage to get out. Where do I say get out?!
The light continued to take shape in front of me and in front of the low tree and suddenly I heard sounds of fragments coming from everywhere and the light finally took on meaning:
"We... are inside an egg?" He said before he retreated one last time from the invisible obstacle and just sat down in front of him, and I along with him just retreated and tried to see everything that was happening in front of me: the moment the invisible obstacle showed that I came out of a swamp, in front of what looked like a cave wall, with fragments of swamp everywhere.
"Wait a minute... we're not stuck here... we're in something, or someone" he looked at me as if I had something to tweet about it, but I don't understand. Is the darkness something, I'm trapped in it, along with this low tree? It's already too much for me.
I turned in the opposite direction to the mirror, but then the lights that emanated from it changed from the reflection, I turned back and saw a different sight and this time it was a sight of an exit from the cave that this thing that showed us has 'gone' into. I thought about turning in one direction and he behaved exactly as I thought.
The thread of thought connected to me: I control him! The instinct to get out of here and the fact that he listens to me what I think, I control him!
The low tree looked at me: "Did you do this?"
[It seems so. I don't know where we are, but I seem to be able to make him do what I want]
He just looked at me in silence before responding:
"I have no idea what you're tweeting about here"
Wait, he doesn't understand me? All the insults I said to him he understood nothing from me. Wait, how do I understand him? Don't we communicate the same way?
"I think I'm stuck here with you"
Thank you very much, of course, I stuck with you.
"I think there's something else over there" he moves to the side while I turn my head in his direction and see on one side, where something black is engraved on it in a way I've never seen, but for a reason I can't explain, I understood everything. And it seems that this low tree also understands what is engraved there:
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Name: ----
Species: Raphus cucullatus (Dodo bird)
Age: (0) - Hatchling
HP: 100%
Abilities: Tweet | Climb | Sprint | Universal Understanding
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"That, not a human?!" he said suddenly
[What exactly is a human?]
He looked at me while I looked at him. Next to this engraving, there is something else next to it that shows... something that was once reflected in the water I saw before:
Me.
"Raph... Raphu... Cucu... A Dodo bird!" he said what was engraved and looked at me and I looked back at him:
"So what where we're trapped in inside, it's you, the Dodo bird"
[How is that possible if I'm here in front of you, trapped inside with you... someone imitating being me]
He frowned at me with a lack of understanding before continuing to look everywhere and back at me, hovering but not rising from the black ground and simply standing in front of the invisible obstacle:
"Can you move...him...out of this place?"
[It's not like there's another reason for you to insult me, is it?]
I advanced towards the invisible obstacle and began to think about getting out of the place. Suddenly he moved in the same direction I wanted, that he asked me to do. The fake self advanced outside the cave and from there you projected what we both see: on a high cliff that comes out of the cave on the mountain, overlooking a forest wide to the horizon under a blue sky. Feels like home.
"It doesn't feel like a place I know," he said with a strange and disappointing look: "I already feel like I'm not human anymore"
[So you were always a short tree with a soft beak and an ugly face before? What did you call yourself, human?]
Suddenly I feel hungry and thirsty. I looked around and all I saw behind it was a lonely nest with what was an egg from which the 'Fake Me' had hatched. Lonely without mom or dad around.
"You feel hungry too, don't you? I don't know how, but we seem to be connected to him"
[I don't know what you're talking about]
I think if there's nothing to eat here" he started screaming 'Go ahead and find food', 'Look around' or 'Move to the left already you piece' or something like that, but nothing changed, but when I think of something, he does exactly what I thought. He looked at me:
"Only you can control him it turns out. It's annoying, but at least I think you understand me. I don't think we should...lo...starve. I don't know what spell or entertainment God wants to do to me if he hears me or there is, but I think it's better to find food where the forest is. I don't want to know what will happen if I stay here too long."
[I don't think you should go down to the forest, I'm sure there might be something to eat here]
This is where you come into the picture: where should they find food: in the forest, in a cave, or tell me where you think they can find food?
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Name: ----
Species: Raphus cucullatus (Dodo bird)
Age: (0) - Hatchling
HP: 100%
Abilities: Tweet | Climb | Sprint | Universal Understanding
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