[You let me decide which direction we should go and you're going to expect me to know where we want to go?]
I moved forward to the invisible barrier to get a closer look at the slender tree with its very strange branches engraved with its inscriptions. He went there with me. I looked at him for a while, staring at him without understanding anything. The human just looked at me, as if he was waiting for my answer.
[screw this]
I chirped in front of everyone not even before commanding the body to turn in a random direction. The body listened to my command and chose to move in one direction and with it we walked on the bridge and crossed it.
"Launcester" he said what was understood above him: "I have already turned off the possibilities that I already know, let's just move and try to find a good place that might solve this problem for us"
He pointed all over his body. After that, he just moved forward and started watching what was happening, out of boredom from hovering in this place. I, like him, sat down away from him and watched, as if there was nothing better, stuck in this body for 11 sunsets.
The body moved with its steps on what looked like rows of stones lying next to each other in order similar to what I saw in the ruins, but brighter and cleaner. Seeing how 'we' walk on the same leaves makes me feel my longing to walk on the stones in my home before I came here. I ask myself why I am here together with this long tree that only bothers us with problems and what is our meaning here if any.
The body continued to move on the path and along the way, we luckily found a fruit that fell from a nearby tree thanks to the alertness of the human. Hunger was the ruler here as the body approached to bite into the fruit with a strange taste that was not there before. The taste that touches my tongue but is not present in my mouth feels foreign and not something it should be.
"This fruit has a familiar taste," the human said and continued to speak:
"I'm guessing it's citrus!" He said enthusiastically as I went into a mild depression.
The invisible barrier began to project information about the fruit we had just eaten:
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Cultural Tangandon:
A fruit that was cultivated a long time ago and is currently cultivated in the Rochamia Empire mainly in the southern peninsula and distributed throughout it, this fruit is popular among its populations, especially in winter, the ripening season, and because it does not rot easily.
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"This is something I haven't seen before - the Rochamia Empire. We're in their territory, is this an entire empire full of giant talking otters?"
He looked at the wall with the information written on it after the writing on the invisible barrier faded. After the body finished eating, it continued to move forward in the direction of wherever it was.
"I wonder what kind of empire this is? I don't know how big or strong it is, if at all, or if it's just there to impress, but if there's something like that, maybe there's a chance to know what's happening with us here. Especially with a 'bird that doesn't exist in this world'"
He kept muttering to him as we walked for some time along the road and along with the sunset, a continuous noise that was getting louder and louder was heard behind us. The human looked at me:
"Get out of this way! Immediately!" He told me and I just as quickly commanded the body to move aside from the stone path. As soon as this was done, the body looked towards the source of the noise along with the vibrations that the earth made with the noise, and with it we were able to see what it was: something that looked like a big hog with something even bigger attached to it, moving quickly until they were right next to us and passed at the same speed, rushing somewhere. The human looked at the invisible barrier as they passed in front of us and away from it and with it, the noise and vibrations stopped and began to speak:
Stolen story; please report.
"It's a huge carriage!" He said before motioning for me to go back to the stone path. With it, the body moved forward and continued to move near the road. He continued to mutter to him:
"Maybe because we're small, this carriage is huge, I don't know, but one pulled by a huge pig like the hogs we saw with the otters, they have a different culture especially those from the empire. The otters rule over everyone then.."
He kept muttering to him the whole time we continued walking and as the sun set, we tried to look for a place where the body could rest among the trees with him we climbed a safe enough tree and the body sat on one of the branches. In the moments before his body closed his eyes and time jumped for him, the human looked to the side and began to look at the information board on the body and began to see how it changed the text again and began to ask me:
"How long do dodo birds live?" He looked at me, knowing that I didn't have an answer or that I could answer it until the body's eyes opened and we continued on our way, not before the body sipped from the dew that had accumulated on one of the leaves.
All the same steps, the view didn't change much - on one side there was a forest and on the other, a meadow with scattered trees on its sides, a view that didn't change much and there wasn't anything interesting to see on the way. Along with this, when the sun began to move towards sunset, the human who was bored from the road, complained about how slowly the body was going a few days ago, began to get up:
"Do you see it?" He points to what looks like a gray cloud rising into the clouds, painting his surroundings with a gray-black aura. The human signaled me to check the situation and I was ordered to run forward to the place. While the writing "Run" glowed, the body ran on the stones like nothing and we approached the gray cloud. It didn't take long before an unexplained commotion appeared on the horizon: something that looked like an unfamiliar group, hard to see from a distance, advancing toward something that resembled the carriage we saw earlier, but on fire, and another group was standing next to it.
I don't understand anything from the situation I see exactly, but the human began to speak:
"It looks like an ambush. We're too far away to see who's who. Let's not get involved with them and find a way to go in another direction"
[We can of course sneak up on them. It is the responsibility of the human who asked me to go in this direction, so he will pay for his decision to let me decide.]
Only when we looked at the situation visible on the horizon, did the group approach the second one while the last one was shrinking to it and surrounded. There are many possibilities for a decision that needs to be made quickly or wait for the situation to go his way, or somewhere else.
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Name: ----
Title: ----
Species: Raphus cucullatus (Dodo bird)
Age: (12 days) - Hatchling | (80% growth)
HP: 100% | Stamina: 85% | Karma: -1
Abilities: Tweet | Climb | Run | Universal understanding | Info
Growth option path: Unknown
General information:
It is a moderately flightless bird. They are mostly herbivores that eat fruits, seeds, and roots but are also able to eat and crake mollusks, crustaceans, and fish when the opportunity arises.
Their large and powerful beaks are capable of causing quite a bit of damage and are adapted to the food they eat, but they will more often than not choose to flee rather than fight, even though they have no natural fear.
This is a bird that does not exist in this world and should not exist. There is nothing like her in this world.
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