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]

"Ah, okay. Yuuya!" He smiles again as he says it, as Yuuya's words do some good in cheering him up. "Yeah! I have to find them fast. Are you looking for your friends too?"

[espigeonage]

It's narcissistic, he knows, but Yuuya loves hearing his name said with joy. "Yes! Like that! If you can stay in a clearly visible area, and perhaps call out, they will have an easier time finding you. That's what they say about getting lost, after all."

He doesn't answer the question yet.

[nullity]

He'll likely ask the question again when he's less distracted by the thought of finding his friends. If they knew he ran off all on his own, well, it won't be very fun.

"Okay!" Nai glances around now. A clear, visible area...well, this floor probably wasn't a good place to start, what with it being crowded by dozens of people. He wonders where he could go instead, and then he looks up.

"There's another place all the way up there. If I go there, I can see better." Maybe? He'll have to use his wings and he doesn't have a handle on them in his short time here.

[espigeonage]

It certainly is well-populated here, yet no one has received them. "I noticed as well. We could go together! I wonder how big this place even is."

[nullity]

The prospect of being joined by someone brings a smile to his face.

"Yeah, I want to go together!" As for where they could be, Nai also has an answer for that. "This place smells like a tree. But you can't go inside a tree, so maybe it's not?" His logic is quite simple.

[espigeonage]

Nai seems like quite a small child to Yuuya. On adult humans he's around waist-high. True he now seems to be as tall as most of the ones around here, but he hasn't quite managed to adjust.

"Well, larger trees do exist! As evidenced here. Before anything else, what's your name, kid?"

[nullity]

True enough, and Nai's seen his share of trees in the forest he used to live in to believe it. He didn't live in a tree but he supposes Karoku, his housemate, could have made it possible (but then again in his mind, Karoku could do anything). He 'ooh's in wonder and agreement before perking up.

"I'm Nai." He tilts his head a bit as he takes note of Yuuya's wings now—all four of them. "Your wings are white like mine! But I only have two of them."

[espigeonage]

He half spreads his arm-wings, then folds them again, dinosaur style, before opening his fuzzy white wings wide. "Yours are more complex, though! I suppose it balances out."

[nullity]

He watches the display in awe before looking over his shoulder at his own wings, which shine brightly in the light of the room. 'Complex'? He knows what the word means and he tries to figure out how it applies in this situation.

"Ummm...they're hard to use. I got the wings when I came here but I don't know how to fly. I thought only birds had wings."

[espigeonage]

"Plenty of animals have them, too. Flight is difficult! It seems I can't do it the way I'm used to, here, but I've still got plenty of experience. Practice will help."

[nullity]

He agrees, there are other, much smaller creatures with wings. Take the glowing balls of light flitting around them, for example. Once he looked close enough, he noticed their tiny wings dancing about. He thinks the art of flying is an amazing thing, and he's actually experienced it in a different form back home. No wings were involved, so he's still at a bit of a loss.

"I'll practice a lot! But every time I drop this rock, my wings go away, even when I'm already flying." The rock he refers to is in his hand, which he reveals to Yuuya now. It's a piece of the yellow gem up high in the tree.

[espigeonage]

"Ah. Yours is pale!" He does not show his own. "It will help if you're able to tie it with a cord or something to your body. Like jewelry! It has to touch your feathers - or skin, I suppose."

[nullity]

He nods with a bright smile. "It's pretty, and it looks like the sun." Now he tilts his head inquisitively. That's a good suggestion—the girls in his circle of acquaintances often wear jewelry, and he wonders if he can wear something like that too. They're incredibly beautiful but look difficult to make on his own.

"Oh...I can try to do that. I have to go find...a string first. Like a necklace. Did Yuuya make a necklace too?"

[espigeonage]

"More of an anklet, I suppose," Yuuya tells him, still not showing. "A wire would do as well! Can you worry out some fibers from your clothing, perhaps?"

[nullity]

And Nai can't quite see an anklet from here but he doesn't press the issue, as usual. His head tilts back the other way as he ponders these new suggestions, but the wording Yuuya chooses is a little difficult to grasp.

"Worry...fibers?" He looks down at himself, though, wondering if he can really use his clothes to make what he wants to. It's far above his skillset, in any case. "Um, I don't know..."

[espigeonage]

"Pull strings," Yuuya clarifies. He doesn't have much to do with children normally. 'Limited vocabulary' makes sense, he guesses. "You got a bag made of leaves, right?"

[nullity]

'Pull strings' doesn't quite help, but the topic of the bag is fortunately something he can contribute to. Nai pulls the bag in question around and holds it up before him.

"I got it. I can use this to make a necklace? How do I do that?" He'll be a tad dejected if it turns out he has to pull apart this sack, because as with most things to related to nature, he thinks it's quite beautiful.