“You don't know? You're my hand, you should have known if I knew.” The logic of this 10-year-old was bulletproof. After all, if something you had with you your entire life, then it would be odd if it didn't know the same things as you. But Vita was prepared. If Benjamin was bulletproof, then what Vita had cooking was a nuclear weapon.
“Of course I wouldn't know, I'm a hand.” This shocked Benjamin, for it made sense! How would his hand know what he knew, when all it was just a hand! It must've been something magical that caused his hand to start speaking to him now instead of in the past. The hand had a mouth, and maybe teeth? He couldn't tell from this angle, and he also didn't want to be rude. Who is to tell if it would hurt his hands feelings if he asked about it?
“Well, aren't you going to tell me? It would make me so happy to learn about these old gods.” It said, and Benjamin took a second to think about what he knew. Which wasn't a lot, but it was the thought that counts.
“Well, the Hero, who beat up the bad Demon King for being too mean, found out that the gods from that time were also bad! The reason was that the gods weren't human, so they shouldn't be the boss of humans. So the Hero, together with his friends, goes to beat up the old gods! They fight so much and so hard and so strong, that they finally manage to win! But the gods didn't fight fair, and many people got really hurt really badly. So the Hero made a crown to watch over us, and trusted his friends to protect people! That's also how the Royals were made.” Benjamin finished with a small smile on his face. Clearly, he liked talking about Akitio the Hero. Vita also knew this due to the extra 'happy' hormones starting to circulate in Benjamin's blood. But it didn't really matter, if anything it would make the questioning easier.
“Alright, so hero beat up demon king, then beat up the gods. Hero didn't feel too good after the fight and did a bunch of stuff. Is that about it?” Vita asked.
“Yeah, I think so. I don't work in a museum.” He would like to go there, and his parents had promised to take him there on his tenth birthday. But then they died. Then his Grandpa promised to take him there instead! But then he died too. Benjamin was sad again.
His hand, or the monster we know as Vita, snapped its fingers again.
“Hey, c'mon, little guy, don't start feeling down. You can do that while moving around, so start walking and talking.” Benjamin sniffled a little before doing as Vita said, unsure of where the way home was, and started walking in a direction that looked similar to the way he took to get here. He knew that he was in a pretty big wilderness area, usually kept to some greenery inside The Kingdom and dampen any strong wind. He knew also that there were some animals in it, but he wasn't able to remember if any of those were dangerous. Luckily for him, his hand, Vita, was really talkative and kept his mind off any sensitive topics. They talked about any cool animals that Benjamin knew of, or any cool monsters he knew of as well. Not like he knew a lot about monsters, just that they like to pop up in places where there aren't that many creatures walking around.
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“Hm, well, no point in speaking in lengths about something neither of us understand well. Got anything else interesting to speak about that is not about random stuff. Like your home, are we getting there yet?”. Vita asked.
“Oh, I forgot the way home, I was hoping you knew.” Benjamin answered, scratching his nose as he did. Vita was quiet for a moment before faking a sigh, after all, can't sigh properly without the brains for it. But now that the two of them were lost now, there wasn't much that could be done. Vita was more than content with letting Benjamin doing the boring stuff for now, but it was dragging on for far too long.
There is quite literally a random little kid walking around in the wilderness, should a park ranger show up soon? Or at least a wild animal that is feeling a bit peckish? There were mostly rocky terrain and different plants that reach up to Benjamin's shoulders for the biggest ones. But even then they were so painfully mundane compared to the ones found in the World's Tongue. Which, apparently, was called so because it's the biggest forest around. While that could be Benjamin just not knowing all that much, he would be too young to know anything important. He was also a commoner, meaning that he was neither from a powerful family nor a rich one.
He was mundane. And Vita could help with that. If only something would happen soon, that would make for a decent enough excuse to mess with this poor boy's anatomy even further. Gotta get a greenlight after all like any good symbiotic freak before doing anything.
Yet it was peaceful. Birds and other bugs were making their noises, singing and buzzing around. But then it got quiet, as if someone had put an invisible dome around where Benjamin stood. And while Benjamin did not notice it at first, Vita did. And Vita knew what this meant. Something was here, and it was scary enough to make everything nearby close its mouth.
Benjamin started to look around as he walked and realized this fact finally.
“Uh, Hand, why did it get quiet all of a sudden?” He looked over his shoulder and saw nothing.
“Oh, nothing to be scared about, just something that could hurt you REAL bad.” Vita answered. Which seemed to be the wrong answer for Benjamin's slowly rising amount of adrenaline. And then the view of the world shifted as something took a hold of Benjamin's foot and pulled him through the ground.