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

[alley_kit]

"I dunno," Kit said, glancing back out at the impressive spread. "We'll probly find out if we stick around long enough though. I mean, all we'd have to do would be hide someplace and watch."

The comment about him being from Earth too had her making a thoughtful sound. "Hmm...", she said. "Well, the cats and the other Animal Tribes don't really come from Third Earth, even though we've been there a long, long time. So it might not be the same place your from."

She paused, thinking. "Tell me a little about what your Earth is like," Kit said. "Then I'll tell you a bit about Third Earth, and we can see if things match up."

[survivorsyndrome]

"Earth is a wasteland," he said. "Industrial development and poor resource management rendered it impossible for human habitation years ago. No one lives there any more. They all keep to space colonies. They're working on ways to reclaim it, but it won't be any time soon."

What a cheerful thought...

"...It used to be nice, though."

[alley_kit]

Kit's gaze was sympathetic. "I'm sorry," she said. "It must be awful, seeing your home ruined like that. Thundara was wrecked by the lizards, but not to the point that it was a wasteland."

"Though if the whole place is a wasteland, then it's not Third Earth," she said. "Parts of it are, like the desert around the Sand Sea, but most of it that I've seen is pretty nice."

[survivorsyndrome]

"It happened before I was born," said Kaoru, shaking his head. He hadn't known any life except the one on the colony. It was sad, but in the way that the extinction of the dodo was sad. Distant.

"Do you live near the desert?" The Sand Sea sounded like it should be a desert itself, but apparently not.

[alley_kit]

"Oh," Kit said. Well, that wasn't quite as bad, then, but still... "I hope they can get it fixed up eventually. And that they're able to keep it fixed up when they do. Cause it'd be really dumb just to do the same stuff all over again and wind up back where they started."

She shook her head a bit when asked if she lived near the desert. "Uh-uh," she said. "It took us almost a week and a half to get to the desert from Thundara. And another day or two to get through the rocky part to the Sand Sea. That's where we met the fish men."

[survivorsyndrome]

"I don't think they'll be that foolish," said Kaoru. Then again, people certainly did seem to repeat their mistakes sometime...

"Why does it take so long to get from place to place? Do you not have aircraft?"

[alley_kit]

"We didn't at the time," Kit said. "It took us so long cause we were walking. We could've ridden, but all the equavises in Thundara were killed, stolen, or ran away after Mumm-Ra and the lizards destroyed it. The fish men let us borrow a sand skimmer to get across the Sand Sea, and we met Panthro not to long after that. He had the Thundertank with him, and that's how we got around til just recently."

"Lion-O found a wrecked flying machine in the Soul-Sever's lair, though, and we got it fixed up," she said. "Kat and I got to name it. We called it the Feliner." She grinned a bit, obviously proud of the name. "That's what let us get to Evista City, which was floating up above the clouds, thanks to the Tech Stone."