ORIGIN

As was common in the cave, many crystals lay strewn about in jagged clusters. One such crystal was glassy and colorless with lines of black woven inside in crisscross patterns, the shadow of a body barely visible through them. Inside, the creature stirred with greater consciousness. Such a suffocating existence, to be grown inside a shell with no room to wriggle and squirm. Each attempt at movement was met with tight restriction and stubborn resistance from the crystal walls. Deterred for the time being, the creature stilled for quite some time. Then, the persistent coolness it had known for so long began to change. The heat spread slowly from the outside of the crystal inward, eventually worming under skin and flesh to warm the pulsing blood. Curiosity swelled with the wondering of what had caused the change. Small body tensed and a shoulder pressed against the chrysalis in a steady stream of force. Nothing happened at first, but then everything happened all at once.

Rivers of cracks sprang out into spidery webs over the entirety of the stone, followed closely by a burst that left a sizable wound. The creature tumbled through the hole and onto the chilled floor of the cave, large eyes blinking uncomprehendingly at his surroundings. Several more blinks captured his lids as he lay sideways on the ground, unsure what to do with himself. Dark hands reached for the streamlined protrusion at his back side, delicate fingers combed through the black and white streaks with intense interest and irises widened impossibly further. With such a baby face, he was no where near grown into the huge orbs and looked very silly at the moment. Attention drifted abruptly from his tail to, instead, the fleshy things that held it in place. The lemur held them flat out in front of him, studying the way the fur thinned out across his fingers before turning them over. Thoughtful hums and coos bubbled up in surprise as he discovered that there was no fluff at all on his palms! How fascinating. He splayed the each finger out to stretch taut the interesting skin and looked intensely around for something to grab. He spied a shattered piece of his previous home and reached over to grasp at it greedily, enjoying the way it rolled about between the digits. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw upon his shoulder a bundle of jutting out crystals that looked very similar! Interesting, he thought, as he reached for it with another hand, but then he thought of something else.

Ah, the warmth! He remembered - it still shimmered in the air, but the brunt of it resided far higher in the air than he could stretch. The fragment fell with a firm clang to the ground, forgotten as quickly as his tail and own gem had been. Triangle shaped head moved in a twitchy, jerky like fashion to a dark space further ahead, still not used to all the things he could now do. Th space was far larger than he and seemed as if it would swallow him whole if he drew closer. A faint thrum of blue could be seen hovering at what he would eventually know to be an entrance, but he could also make out the occasional flash of red and orange. Unsteady limbs picked their way over the ground towards the source of the heat, undeterred in the slightest by the roars that could also be heard inside. He could not see much beyond the darkness and had no reason to think anything lie beyond it at all, but the intense desire to explore pushed him onward. Plus, there was a strange tightness in his stomach that wouldn't go away unless he got distracted by something else.

While crawling onward to the large mouth, a series of clicks and clacks bounced around the cave. Slow, at first, but then exceedingly quicker. Tiny black nose pointed toward the ceiling, he blinked up at it in search of the source. The sound seemed to be coming from everywhere all at once, each note ricocheting off in a different angle from the walls. Now, he a green boy to the cave and had no reason to believe the noises were anything out of the ordinary, so he continued on while paying no heed. And thus was why he was rather startled when a brown, fuzzy thing shifted abruptly into his view, claws slashing against the ground in a screeching twist directly in his path. He, in turn, was forced to suddenly halt the movement of his limbs while a surprised howl (though it was rather weak, being one of the first sounds from his throat) slid out. Already large honey eyes widened further before he was somehow rotated to the other direction. He couldn't really remember what had happened, only that one moment he was facing one way, then the other creature touched his shoulder, and then he was facing the other way! Gaze narrowed at the bulky ball, somehow offended by this steering that could only be done to a smaller creature by a larger one. His hands reached for his tail, drawing it around to his front in a loop. Two fingers looped around the stalk and slid down to settle the ruffled fur before he prepared to stalk off away from the intruder once again, fully unconcerned on whatever the thing had said in such a grave tone. Baddd. It did not sound very pleasant, but he would go see anyway!

Just about to turn away, he paused when the other thing decided to move. It closed its eyes and seemed to be very focused. He blinked, unsure what exactly the stranger was doing, but curious all the same. The waiting went on for a while and, bored but still filled with anticipation, he began rolling his mouth in a chewing-like fashion, but only actually chewing air. At what seemed like long last, something happened. The heat he had felt earlier picked up, but he seemed to have found its real source! His mouth popped open into an awed 'o' that only widened as smoke continued to drift away from the stranger and, upon the removal of its paw, he discovered that the ground had changed colors! Absolutely intrigued, he charged forward with all fingers readied to investigate the heater. Finger tips pried apart the hairs of the heater's shoulder, perhaps hoping to find answers hidden on the skin but he found nothing. Frustrated howl whooshed out, unable to figure out the cause of the heat that had originally drawn him out of his home.

He skittered back away from the new thing, already wondering if he could do the same! What had the other done? Closed his eyes and scrunched up its face? Easy enough! He decided to try the same and settled back upon his haunches, eyes slipped away under a veil of black and the white of his forehead creased with concentration. [post roll] Eyes opened again and he raised both hands to look at the ground below, mouth opened in expectant pride, but it quickly faded when he found nothing. Crestfallen, he looked back up at his new companion, only to be met with surprise. A noticeable thrum filled the air, small beats of noise that originated from the stranger's chest. The ground beneath his feet also felt suddenly rougher, each crack and bump obvious to his touch. Awed eyes followed a hand until it pressed with wonder against the floor. A mere second later, the sensations ended and yellow eyes looked accusingly to the fluff ball for some declaration of guilt or an explanation.