Glimmer, glitter, shine...

[thecanopycrew]

| characters | Everyone!

| date/time | March 15, all day

| location | First Floor

| rating | Currently G

| summary | A flash of light, and a new adventure.


LIGHT

Warmth, love and kindness.
The Life Stream glimmers and glitters with joy, swirls of shimmering dust dancing around the ray of life.
It was time for new ones to test their wings.


One by one, new adventurers now arrive in the Tree. As one gain wings and rises to the second floor, another light brings in the next person. Soon, a steady stream of people from all kinds of worlds, times and realities come to join the others. Whether confused, angry, excited or scared, your arrival is welcomed with nothing but joy as the fireflies and glow worms descend to greet their new friends.

The Tree offers no explanation and no reason, but the truth is undeniable.

As you will soon realize, it isn't easy to be tiny.

Comments

[nullity]

Oh, then this insulation was a good thing. He'll remember this and look for some grass as well to help with it.

He doesn't see Kaoru's glances since he's still staring down the hole, but his attention is re-focused when the other boy speaks and he looks up to find a hand offered to him. He stares at it and Kaoru (even if he's turned away) for a long moment, confused and curious, before taking it. Yes, best not to get lost when trying to find somewhere to sleep—at least that's his understanding of hand-holding.

"Is it hard for Kaoru too? It'll be easier like this?" He certainly hopes so, judging by that, well, hopeful look on his face.

[survivorsyndrome]

Kaoru glanced at him quickly, confused himself. Nai asking him if this was hard for him... as in being here? Or was he talking about the descent?

"No." The answer was reflexive, shut up he wasn't lonely and he didn't need help with anything. Everything was fine. After a moment he added: "...I'm used to having to improvise. I'll help you glide down; just do what I do."

He set his wings at what he deemed the correct angle for gliding, and looked expectantly at Nai.

[nullity]

Hopefully Kaoru will learn that the words out of Nai's mouth don't often have any deeper meaning, certainly not purposefully. He speaks his mind as soon as something pops into it, for better or worse.

He doesn't understand what Kaoru means by 'improvise,' but it's probably more important that they'll be helping each other. So he nods a few times and has his wings unfold in the same fashion (after several seconds of trial-and-error) before tightly gripping the other boy's hand.

"O-Okay!"

[survivorsyndrome]

And with that, Kaoru tugged Nai off the ledge. Surely gliding down should be easier than flying, and as long as Nai didn't flail around too wildly, he was fairly sure he could bear both of them down if need be. They were a lot lighter than they once were, after all...

"We'll just go in a wide spiral all the way down. We shouldn't fall too fast that way."

[nullity]

"Wide, um..." Oh there's no way he'd understand, so he simply does his best to follow Kaoru closely. He grips the other boy's hand tightly so as to not let either of them be parted from the other, and concentrates on using his wings. If he can fly up, surely he can learn to fly downward too. And with the way they're going, it is indeed not too fast.

When their feet eventually touch the ground, Nai looks at Kaoru with wide eyes, full of admiration (and is still holding onto his hand, by the way). "We did it! It's because of Kaoru."

[survivorsyndrome]

Kaoru reclaimed his hand, thank you very much, and stood there looking a little awkward -- he wasn't used to dealing with compliments. His usual method of dealing with them was to blow them off and disappear somewhere, only that would probably hurt Nai's feelings or something.

"...You'll get used to doing it, too. How about that house over there?"

[nullity]

A route well chosen, and Nai has another smile to offer him.

"Yeah, I'll try my best." As for the house, he looks over in the direction Kaoru is referring to, and after giving it a long look, he brightens. "I like it! Do you like it too? There's more houses over there and there. But—oh, some people are already in them."

end thread?

[survivorsyndrome]

"Best not to take over theirs, then," said Kaoru. "This first house is fine. It looks nice and warm."