The moment I gave into my insanity that I realized I wasn’t insane to begin with,
I was confused, sometimes all of our thoughts are misgiven
There are still many things I am confused about myself, but at least now I can….
…..
…..
Don’t actually know what I was going to say there
….
It makes me wonder
….
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Bwoof♪
Creating a fireball in my palm, I use it to light the wick of a torch carved into a golden brown-bronze wall
The flame subsequently spreads along the walls lighting the previously dim room Apollo and I had warped into,
“Don’t understand how a tower is beneath here.” Comments the young man, speaking quite annoyingly into my ear
“Move,” I push his face away,
The fire the lights the walls spread around it like a ring, the room itself is no bigger than a large classroom, except it’s empty besides a circular brick structure in it’s center,
…..
“A well?” my hus–Apollo and I both peer at the said structure,
Our faces reflect back at us in the calm silver water,
“Only way is down,” I grip onto the steel bars etched into the wells side interiors like ladder rungs,
“Climb in?
Kage, there’s water there”
“Do I look someone who can drown?
You aren’t being forced to come with,
We can part ways her–”
“–No chance,” he cuts me off,
“I’ll be gone once I know you get to where you need safely,”
“……”
Clip–clip–clip♪
Clip–clip–clip♪
Our hands and feet tap as we climb down the surprisingly dry rungs,
The water is pretty low down, or at least lower than we thought when peering in
….
Plop!♪
My foot comes in contact with the liquid, only it doesn’t get wet,
(Strange, my leg feels bent, like it’s facing upward now…)
“Apollo,
I’m going to let go and drop in” I whisper up at him
(Don’t know why I whispered)
“Wait–”
He cautions, but I’ve already let go,
My body drops into the water and…..
…….
….
….
{Eieeeeeiiiiiieeeee!!}
“Wha?”
A bright light shines down onto me who has just been softly ejected from another ‘well’
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“Heyy” Apollo’s bewildered voice comes right after me,
We both look up into a massive room,
{Auuuuuuhuhuuhhhhhhhhh!}
A spacious enclosure of ancient brick walls surrounding us circularly, they go all the way up to heights we cannot see,
But nonetheless white sunlight bathes down on us,
The center of this tower sits a tornado, in contrast to the white light, this tornado boats a dark spin absorbing the light around it,
{Aiiiieeeiiiieeeee!!}
Screams leak out from it along with images of hollowed out faces flashing between the ravaging rotations
“How is this underground,” Apollo watches awestricken
“And this light, it’s definitely sunlight…”
“Don’t even bother thinking too hard about it,” I say resting my hand on his shoulder
“At this point I’d believe anything is possible,”
“Saying that just makes me anxious Kage,”
“mhmm…” I nod half ignoring him,
My eyes now scoping the large room,
(There’s no way to pass through that tornado, but…)
Along walls are seemingly the only correct way to go as built into them are shining gold stairs,
They practically call us to climb them…
“I sense the beginning of an incredibly long walk” a sigh to Apollo motioning him to watch what I watch
“Sounds like an exercise to me.” Replies confidently
….
“Come on let’s –”
My voice trials off as I spot something near us I hadn’t before,
Apollo notices it too,
It’s pale and blue, draped in a tattered white robe,
Brown feathers lay around it’s sides
(It’s not dead)
“Hellooo?” Apollo extends his sword, poking it cautiously
“Auhhg” the body stirs slightly before rolling over
It’s face is blue and shriveled up to the point of it’s facial features being unidentifiable
“Y….
Y….
Y..
You…came..” it exhales out slowly, mouth moving like it had not been opened in years,
“Do you know me?” I question the skeleton like person,
“Yesss….
I’ve….been waiting for you…..for centuries….”
(Judging by it’s wings….)
“I am the last……” it takes a deep breath, Or perhaps trying to smile…
“I am the last living angel.”