Sweet liquids flowed thickly from between my lips, traveling down my neck and down on to my knees, and once they reached that point the sun had them in its grasp, and it seemed to melt there; my knees were sticky with the juice.
I'd come across an odd sort of creature. It was a dark green, and it pointed thousands of fingers around itself. Two smaller creatures the same shade of color as the color that hugged the sun at sunset perched firmly atop it, and none of the three creatures before me had reacted to anything I'd said. This was our conversation that occurred just moments before I'd approached it and mercilessly ripped at it.
"Ainae-su, being. What are you?"
Silence.
"Speak, being."
Silence.
"Fine then, are you edible?"
After a moment, when it still rebelled and insisted silence, I heaved an irritated sigh and sauntered over to find out.
For Hunims, I suppose the fingers were made to cause pain and to make one hesitant to eat it, but my tongue was accustomed to the harsh foods of Nede, and so it was almost as though the fingers were massagers.
It was all too small of a creature (was it even?), not much bigger than my skull, but it was sufficient enough; it should last me a good deal of time (again, what would the Hunims call it?).
I dug up the arms that trailed low into the grainy ground, and threaded them firmly through the cloth hanging about me so that I would have them later. I suppose they could also create sufficent food; there was a liquid of sorts within them, though not as much as the fingered being with the two smaller beings perched atop it (of which one I had left, one I'd tied into my hair. It was lovely in a way of sorts; not like anything of my era, but still appealing). Taking a moment to rest, I glanced around and then studied my mind's eye for other beings, anywhere.
Suddenly, I realized with a bit of a start that I could sense featherlike edges of...something. It would have to be a Class Six-Oh-Five Era if it were to build defenses against this ugly, selfish sun. Surprisingly exhilirated by this discovery, I realized I'd grown a bit lonely in this grained plain, and so leaped up and ran with great speed (worthy of a double-take I should say, even for an Oepuntich, as I happen to be), hardly unable to keep from bursting with excitement.
Well, I suppose I should find answers to many of my questions there, as well as a way back to Nede.
Perhaps I can stay here for a lifetime or two.
Excuse me, that was a fool's fancy. Is there really anything I'd give up my era for?
...No. Of course not. There's nothing any era can offer superior to my own.
heart heart -- Myena;
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