"Urrgh.. Wha-.. Wha's goin on?"

I awoke with massive headache and a slightly drunk feeling. Eveything was blurry, and slightly glowy and just generally sucked.

All in all, excellent way to start the day, I suppose.

Seeing as how my, I'm hesitant to call it sight, but will until a have a better name for it, was proving next to useless at the moment, I decided some internal retrospective was in order. Only to be rather confused at what I saw. I don't now why, but it seems as if my stringcore was less... There? I don't really know why that would be, I don't really remember-

"oh..."

"Ooooooohhhh..."

And suddenly, I remember my tantrum. I also remember not really seeing what happened as a result of said tantrum, though seeing how a good amount of my stringcore is now effectively GONE, there's a good chance something exploded. Though I sould probably check, just to be certain.

Pulling my focus away from my internal perspective, the first thing I immediately notice is the slight glowing around me. Now, I was prepared to write this off as a consequence of throwing strings to hard at the snake, only to notice a few thing:

1. The strings a far more organized than they should be if that is the case and,

2. On taking a closer look, it seems as if the glowing both follows a pattern and seems to be coming from under something. Kinda like scales actually...

"Well," I thought "that neat. I didn't know thay could do that." and simply disregarded this phenomana as the strings capable of doing something that I simply hadn't know they could do yet. An interesting discovery, if nothing else, and something I'll make note of.

Once I expanded my vision, I found the truth.

The truth being a glowing, horned, snake lady.

Now, I am going to be completely honest, that was probably the last thing I was expecting to see. The only things really contesting this stranger in the 'not expecting' contest being that THING somehow reviving itself, or Cthulhu himself deciding to stop by for a visit.

Though I'd probably have to build a temple afterwards, if only because I'd feel inclined to after having the supreme mad tentecle boy himself stop by. I'm distracting myself.

And knowingly doing it to. Why? Simple, I really don't want to acknowladge that I was involved with the creation of mega snek waifu over here. I also don't know why I disapprove of it, which, now that I think about it, if I don't know why I'm doing/disliking something, isn't that a good reason to stop doing that?

Alright, enough of this philosophy shit, let's see if I can talk to her! After all, I have been by myself for... An amount of time. Perhaps it's time to break that spell of isolation!

"Hello! Can you hear me?"

The snake, however, continues to sit there. She didn't even flinch. Than again, she is coiled up around me, and her eyes are closed. Also, she's breathing lightly...

She's fucking asleep. That's just GREAT! The first goddamned thing that might be even begin to provide a tiny bit of banter, and she's FUCKING ASLEEP! So I decided to let my frustration out in the most adult manner I could think of.

By screaming at the top of my non-existant lungs in rage.

As a side effect, the snake woke up, so that's neat. How she did so, however, was a bit startling.

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She immediately pushed her torso into the air, turned to the entrance, and shot what could only be called a gout of flame straight from her mouth, washing over the room up to the entrance, and slightly past.

That...

"Woah..." I mean, what else could I say? This chick just flooded the room with fire! From her mouth! I don't know if I should feel greatly awed, or horribly intimidated, so I just decided settle for both.

Thankfully, she stopped trying to charbroil everything in frount of her when she realized there was nothing to broil. She turned her head around the room for a bit, almost if she was trying to look for something.

"Um..."

That was all she needed to put all her attention on me. Her stare felt rather intense, so much so, I could almost feel it digging into me.

"Hi?"

That made her pause her intense staredown, which is a good thing, because I almost felt I was going to shatter from the intensity. She tilted her head a bit, and leaned in closer, unintentionally, I think, showing she had a rather large chestal area. Why this was, I don't really know, but it was a thing. While I was distracted with the thought of why a fire breathing snake lady would have such large boobs, also how and what the point was, she picked me up and brought me closer to her face. After squinting a bit, I finally heard,

"Egg? You speak?"

I would have gasped to high heaven if I could. She COULD speak to me! YAY! This is the best day ever! "Wait, did she call me egg?"

She tilted her head the other way this time before saying, "That is what you are, is it not?"

Is she serious? I mean, that's a really simple indicater for being- you know what, I'm not going to explain why that's dumb, it just is. "No, I'm a Dulveritite Gem who can control strings and manipulate my environment with said string control... you know, now that I said that out loud, I just realized that's weird as hell. How can I do that?"

It seemed I wasn't the only one who was confused at least, seeing as she just gave me a look of utter befuddlement. Well, seeing as we're both lost in this conversation as it is, might as well drop this topic and bring up a new one. "What's your name?"

She blinked, "Name?"

"Yeah, your name?"

"What is a name?

I... How does she not know that? Wha... I take a moment to shake of my confusion before answering, "That's what you call yourself." With that said she just stared at me for a while, like she understood what I said, but didn't quite understand what it meant. I felt kind of akward with her staring at me so hard, so I decided to just say, "Would you like me to give you one?"

That got a reaction. She blinked, straightned her head up, and nodded at me. Hmm... A name for a fire breathing snake gal. Actually, I think I have one!

"How about Tiamat?" 

She adopted a contemplative look for a short bit, than said the name as if she was tasting it on her minds tongue, before giggling. After the litteral foutain of fire she spat out of it earlier, I can say I didn't expect such a... Normal, for lack of better words, sound like that to come out of her mouth. Not that I disliked it though, it sounded rather cute, you know for a fire breathing snake lady. She interrupted my thoughts with a question.

"Your name?"

And... I didn't have a response. I feel as if I should have one, was certain I did, but for the crystally life of me, I hadn't a clue what it was. "I... Don't remember..."

Again, she looked confused. Than, weirdly enough, it seemed as if she were looking at somthing before her eyes lit up.

"Origin!"

"What?"

"I am Tiamat, and you are Origin!"

I... didn't know how to feel about that. I felt like my name was important to me, and that I should be trying to figure out what it was. But, at the same time, she just looked so pround of herself, like she's a five year old who just solved a, to her perception, difficult puzzle, or answered all the question on a math test correctly and got a bonus 10 points for the extra question on the bottom. So... I caved.

"Sure, I'm Origin, and you're Tiamat. What a lovely gathering we make, a rock and a snake."

"The best!"

Well, if nothing else, I was starting to feel better about the whole forgotten name thing. She sat me down and started to slither her way to the entrance of the room.

"Where are you going?"

"Hungry, so I'm going to hunt."

And before I could comment on that, she slithered her way out of the room, up the tunnel, and outside, the one place I couldn't go...

Yay, my conversational partner is now gone. It's everything I've ever wanted.

.....

Gods I'm bored. Maybe I can do something around here to distract myself until she gets back...