CH 3

Four weeks later

-Martoel POV-

I haven’t found out much about my race but I think I’m starting to understand what the others are saying. My birth lady keeps feeding me and strokes my head gently saying things that sooth me when I cry, even though I don’t know what she’s saying it feels nice.

The hairy man comes when it is becomes dark and leaves when it grows bright. Always eating with us but not from my birth lady, it seems that when we grow big we have to eat from other sources instead of our birth lady.

Oh yeah, Eating is when our race puts things in there big hole on the top extension and don’t let it run out of it. It’s kinda like the souls that tried to absorb me when I was a soul. Also it seems that they do this three times before we all fall unconscious. Once right when it grows bright, once when it’s bright out, and once when it has gone back to darkness. It also seems like the big ones can control when they go unconscious, but only a little bit.

But it seems that only birth lady and hairy man come here every dark time. Sometimes other ladies come to talk to birth lady. I don’t know what they talk about but I recognize one word constantly and that’s Martoel. Then they look at me like I know what’s going on. But I don’t and hey lady you said the word not me you should know what it means.

The other words I have started to pick up on are Marte, Nanook, baby, cute, let’s eat, and night. But I don’t know what any of them mean and I can’t ask. I’ve tried but birth lady just shakes her top extension and laughs.

But for the past few glowing periods Birth lady has begun to look more and more worried. And the Hairy man keeps stroking her head like she does to me. I wonder if that’s how your supposed to calm others down.

Once I can move a bit bigger I’ll try it.

It is much harder to move out here than when I was inside birth lady. But I can now move extremely slowly. I scoot around and can only go about half of one of their steps before I start to loss control.

But it’s pretty easy I yell when I feel pain in my core when it’s empty. And birth lady somehow can always tell when my lower core explodes. When that happens I am taken out of the thing that covers most of me and put in a new thing. Then I am either set on the ground or put in the holder birth lady has for me to be in. I like the ground more I can try to move there. While I can only absorb mana when I’m in the holder. It seems like I can store more mana now that I’m out but when I do it hurts a little bit all over my outer layer.

Aww the hairy man is back again I wonder if he will hold me today. I really hope not his hair is scratchy, he is hard, uncomfortable, and he doesn’t feel good at all, unlike birth lady. But when he holds me I can see everything from really high up. It’s a little scary but mostly it just leaves me amazed at how small everything becomes when he holds me.

“hello hairy man”

“ae3 Martoel h3w er yu”

He replied excitedly barley paying attention to me. As he heads over to birth lady in a hurry. I wonder what all the fuss is about?

“hets J@gheIr ha es b@ket.”

Hairy man says to birth lady.

“Aww mi s0on es b@ket. Finley b@ket. Hoy es eh?”

“gud gud eh es ihg eind strhunge. Eh wll becumn ge8t.”

“weann wll eh git hoom?”

“wi wll goo ce im en da morrden. Ess a famellie.”

I wonder what they are talking about they seem to be really excited. Well I guess I’ll try to move again until birth lady comes to give me that wonderful liquid that she has hidden. No matter where I look I can’t find anything that resembles what I say come out when it leaks out after I fell that I should stop.

Oh look here she comes. Aww please let me eat. I want to taste it again.

“oopse dassies”

She says as she picks me up. And as soon as I’m close I latch on. I never want to lose this.

Aww all done. I release from her and she instantly starts to rub and pat my back while she gently rocks back and forth. Aww when I lose control of my body this way it feels alright.

…

Once I had regained control of my body I noticed that hairy man and birth lady where up and moving around preparing many things for some reason. It was only just starting to glow and they had bags full of things ready to go.

“Where are we going?”

 I said to no avail. Then birth lady came towards me after she had heard my question even if she didn’t understand. She brought lots of clothe that I wore with her. After she picket e up she started to wrap me up layer after layer. All the while she spoke sweetly to me about something that I couldn’t understand saying.

“wi er goong tu meit yur illdre brutheir J@gheIr tudaie. Ha es a gud booy. I hoop yu tu ghet alung. Et wll tak soom tiem tug het tu da vielaje su ples b a gud booy fur mumya.”

I had no clue what she said but I knew that it mattered to her so I will try to not be in the way. After she had finished wrapping me up she hung me on her back. She started to head for the hole that hairy man and others came from. And I saw that hairy man had all the stuff on his back as well and a large shiny stick in his hand with two curving edges at one end. I wonder what that is used for?

Then we went through the hole. Once we were outside the hole I saw amazing things. The first was the ground mound we lived in. it was three times as tall as hairy man. It had lots of brown lines and circles on the top half and on the bottom half it had many small grey bulges all over the surface of it.

Then I looked up, there where white fluffy things far above us and a flat layer of pure mana above that. Or at least that’s what it looked like. There were even some beasts up there going wherever thy pleased. Then I saw something up there that made my eyes hurt so I looked away and refused to look up again. But the ground was amazing to it was covered in a solid crust of white that broke at every step birth lady and hairy man took. Then there where the pokey hair towers of green that shot out of the ground ether in large groups or by themselves. 

Sometimes I would even see a large pokey brown stick stand out of the ground. On occasion I would see a white blob of hair run away from us. I think it is another type of beast, one that can’t touch the mana up there.

As they moved more I could hear birth lady’s da-dum’s get faster and faster as she got slower and slower. Then we would stop for a time while the big people eat and check on me. I wonder if they think I could escape from this. Then hairy man would ask birth mother something like

“er yu uk tu goo ageen?”

And she would shake her top extension up and down in response. As they moved they said many things. J@gheIr was said the most, I wounder what that means? They talked the entire time as they moved, as I tried to learn as many of the words as I could, but it was hard and I couldn’t learn many.

Eventually we came to a stop and I saw a large vertical grey and brown ground going in both directions. It was so big that I couldn’t see ether end. Then we went through a huge hole in the side of the ground. There where shiny men standing by the hole with long sticks with pointy ends.

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Once we were through I noticed that there was no ground above us even though we went through a hole. Then I noticed lots of ground mounds every were that looked like our ground mound did. There were other big people moving about, all varying in size, shape, and color. There were others like me on ladies backs and a few slightly bigger ones were running around. There were wide men and short women, rough men and fragile women. No matter where I looked I could see a different face and being, all of them were unique.

We continued to move until we came to an opening with a large round rock slab in the middle of the opening. There were three other openings between the ground mounds that lots of my kind were moving around in. Then I noticed that one mound was very different from all the rest in this place. It was taller and had many colorful things hanging off of it. It had a curve to it from the ground to a meeting point above the large hole in the center on the mound.

As we moved through the crowd I noticed that we were getting closer and closer to the strange looking mound. Once we reached the hole I noticed that there were more shiny men standing by the hole. We didn’t stop this time and just went through the hole. Once inside there were many things hanging above us the glowed. There were also lots of colorful things hanging above us as well. There were only a few of our kind around. But I noticed an imposing man standing in front of a big shiny chair. He had grey hair and a long beard as well as green eyes. And he had defined muscles as well as scares covering his arms and he was even a little taller than hairy man. And he had an air of dignified power around him.

Next to him was a boy just taller than half the man’s height. He had curly ash brown hair that reached the top of his shoulders and dark blue eyes that shown like a gem. He had a few muscles but none of them were very defined. He was covered in dirt and grim and had torn his clothes and had scratches all over his body. He looked worn and battered but he still had desire in his eyes.

“wealucme hoem J@gheir.”

Birth lady said in a loving voice. I don’t know what expression she had on. But I think she was happy.

“muthier! Yu heav gievn birth.Wy er yu heyr? Yu shood b risteng et hoem.”

 He said in a surprise way, than his voice changed to one of worry.

“I em fien mi s0on, teir es noting ta wurry aboot. Iend I heav sumown woo waints ta meit yu, su cielm doon. And coom ghive yure muthier a hoog.”

After birth lady said this she opened her upper extensions far apart from each other like she would for hairy me when she wanted to be close. The boy looked at the grey man as if asking for approval. The grey man gave a hearty laugh and shook his top extension once up and down towards the boy. The boy quickly came over as quickly as he could, and embraced birth lady as best he could.

“et es gud ta ce yu muthier.”

“iend yu mi s0on.”

Then I started to feel the clothe that held loosen as birth lady pulled me off her back and into her light embrace.

“thys es Martoel yure yuenger brothair. Woold yu leek ta huld im?”

Mother said to the boy smiling with watery eyes.

“ya”

The boy said softly as he extended his top extensions towards birth lady. I was then passed to the boy and was firmly embraced like I had been with hairy man. But not as tightly as hairy man but I was still held firmly in place. Then he started to talk to me.

“ hy brothair Martoel. Mi nam es J@ghier. I wiel b yure ooldir brothair frum nw un iend prumies ta pruteact yu.”

As I was being held grey and hairy man talked and birth lady sat down and watched me and the boy be with each other. Then Hairy man came over and started to talk to the boy saying things like “Wheir weir ya? Whaet ded ya eat? Hw ded ya kep wurm?” and other questions like that. And the boy always answered the same thing to each question proudly saying.

 “bi mi une wiel iend streungth.”

To which the hairy man would just shake his top extension up and down as if approving. Then he walked over to the grey man and talked to him more in hushed tones.

After a while I started to feel the pain in my core, and I started to unconsciously make little whimpering noises. This made the boy panic a little as he held me and look at birth lady with worried and apologetic eyes.

“Haha Martoel es jused hungrie. Thair es nu resoon ta woory J@ghier.”

Said birth lady as she got up and took me from the boy, then gave me the sweet nectar that I live crave and desire.

After I had my fill I could not even try to fight losing control of my body and instantly began to see the unreal visions.

…

Once the visions had ended I noticed that I was on birth ladies back again and that there were more of our kind in the area then before I had lost control. And there were great pills of things that were gathered by individuals for them to eat. The boy from before now wore new clothe that looked nicer then what anyone else. He was also clean and his hair was shorter with intricate patterns in it. He had a big grin on his face as he talked to some other boys around him.

Birth lady was talking to everyone she could and always started the conversation with.

“Thaunk yu fur cumen.”

I wonder if she has to do that to everyone? Every once in a while she would take a break after he da-dum’s speed up considerably. And almost every time she stopped hairy man would come over and say.

“yu dunt nead ta du des. Yu jused hed a chillda. Su dunt posh yursulf.”

He would always say these words gently and softly so that only she could hear him. And she would always shake her top extension in response.

After a while the others started to leave until the only ones left where the boy, birth lady, hairy man, grey man, a few girls that were cleaning, and myself. After everything was put away grey man came over and said.

“Et wes a gud uf aige bunquite.”

“Thaunk yu fur husten et en de greet hull chif. Et mens da wurld ta mi.”

Birth lady said in reply and a slight bow.

Then we left, birth lady, hairy man, the boy, and me.

Once we exited the hole I saw that the glow of the world was fading. And as it did many colors were painted above us in vibrant pinks and oranges. There were very few of our kind out now so I could see that there where holes at the end of each of the empty spaces in the vertical ground.

By the time we had moved out of the vertical ground the colors where gone and all that was left was a white glowing curve and many small glowing white dots that twinkled above me. Then something even more spectacular happened. Light green lights started to form above us waving around like they were dancing for Havre and the gods. As I watched the lights dance I started to lose control of my body again. But I kept watching the colors dance around each other until the visions started to form again.