oasis guide

You have grown to love this world.

A piece of your heart belongs to the pits of this home where trinkets and gifts are laid to rest. You've seen creatures and monsters and people and lovers and heroes and villains and so many more leave behind parts of their own hearts. You always had been a lover of these pieces. These echoes of a world long forgotten, but still remembered. Every tunnel leads to a new heart, every crevice leads to a new sight, and every light leads to a mystery to be uncovered. The world is much more vast down here than it is up top. A mystical wonderland of magic and love and memories all echoing along cave walls as far as the eye can see.

You've never strayed too far from the groups of wings that flap oh so gently in the darkness, glowing different hues of colors and steadying courses through crevices and caverns and the mystical objects surrounding all of you. You are just a child, filled with a wonderous feeling of curiosity, of joy, and of wonder. You flutter along as if your wings had been freely opened, but you've been here for longer than most other creatures. People live and die, but you remain. Ever so beautiful in the sea of mystery that lies beneath you. Long ago, you used to look for treasures and finds that your family guides others to. Gifts and tokens of appreciation to be given to stragglers who don't know how they've ended up there.

You enjoy those moments the most. The parts where other creatures show their stomachs, letting you flutter down to somewhere so intimately protected by many. You've seen creatures beyond most creatures comprehensions, but once you float with a gentle flutter, you always make sure to give back to them. It's when you're flying above with a group, high above the floor of the cave, glowing green with the plants and the life that still breathes down here that you notice them. Two new creatures, long since thought to be gone. You've seen relatives with scars and missing trinkets who've given help to creatures like them, but you still flutter softly, ever so slightly coming closer and closer.

You are so curious when you see them. They've got many more antennas than you and they are pale in the darkness, but those eyes glitter like the starlight that sometimes reaches you. In a way, you find them pretty. Their forms seem large, but you've never judged a character because despite everything, all creatures are soft here. Always careful with you. As you approach closer, both of them noticing you.

You flutter quickly to one that had shaken, fluttering at eye level, whizzing around it's head until you move away from them. You flutter to the other, much more gentler, taking in their forms. You've only seen a creature like them once. Long before the cavern had gotten light from above, when everything glowed in a multicolored vision. You flutter gently closer and closer until you land on the one with bright eyes' nose. (Canvas). Slowly, you flap your wings once, twice, thrice, and then flutter off in another direction. You want them to follow. You want them to chase you.

It's more fun that way.

You wanted them to see it.

The place where you go to hide away.

Someone deserves to see the pieces of a life once gone.

Follow me, please. You desperately want to say, but you do not speak.

You only flutter farther in.