May 19 2020, 04:22 PM
Sharp
we can wander through the forest, and do so as we please
Sharp was going to learn a lesson today.
A bad lesson? Probably not, unless she messed up big-time. But a lesson nonetheless.
The day started off like any other for the lizard, which is to say she was on the search for shinies. Smooth stones, glittery gems, the little chrysalis shards that littered the rooms in alarmingly great numbers, the gist. She wasn't attracted to them just because they were sparkly, but because they enhanced the one thing she loved most: light. Sure, the light-orbs were nice, but they were a bit dim, and only illuminated a small area. But if she placed a shiny right under a lamp, the light bounced off of it, making it seem like there was much more light than there actually was. And boy, did she love that!
Within the first few weeks of her existence Sharp's life fell into a pretty regular pattern: each day, after waking up and eating, the little Sungazer will waddle her way out into the caverns. She'll look for the prettiest, most dazzling gems in each room. And then, one by one, she'll tediously roll them all the way back to Monoceros, pray that the wind didn't blow them away, and then add it to the growing collection of shinies she accumulated. It was pretty small now, but she swore that one day, she'd have enough to dazzle the entire caves.
It was then, on a trip back with a tiny quartz in tow, she noticed something she hadn't before. It was some small pile (though absolutely ginormous in comparison to Sharp) huddled just inside the entrance of Monoceros. She couldn't see much besides disappointingly dull scraps of armor and old meat, though there certainly was something shiny near the top. So, abandoning her find, she began scaling up the gargantuan pile with nothing but dull child claws.
It took quite some time (and a chipped claw) but Sharp finally dragged herself to the top of the dragon-sized stack, wheezing slightly. She looked somewhat like Jack-and-the-Bean-Stalk, except female, reptilian, and with not nearly as much brains. A quick glance down sent worries of how she would even get back down into her head, but that was all abandoned when she saw what she was standing on.
Shinies. Everywhere. Absolutely everywhere, no matter where she looked. The entire hoard was made of oh-so-many gems, rocks, metals, and things she couldn't even name. Many of them were larger than she was (which wasn't saying a lot, but it did to her). A faint waft of plants and meat also came from somewhere, though she barely registered it among all the wares. A particularly large gem studded with various colors caught her eye, and she instantly became enamored with it-- completely oblivious to the massive dragon now on the edge of her sight.
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A bad lesson? Probably not, unless she messed up big-time. But a lesson nonetheless.
The day started off like any other for the lizard, which is to say she was on the search for shinies. Smooth stones, glittery gems, the little chrysalis shards that littered the rooms in alarmingly great numbers, the gist. She wasn't attracted to them just because they were sparkly, but because they enhanced the one thing she loved most: light. Sure, the light-orbs were nice, but they were a bit dim, and only illuminated a small area. But if she placed a shiny right under a lamp, the light bounced off of it, making it seem like there was much more light than there actually was. And boy, did she love that!
Within the first few weeks of her existence Sharp's life fell into a pretty regular pattern: each day, after waking up and eating, the little Sungazer will waddle her way out into the caverns. She'll look for the prettiest, most dazzling gems in each room. And then, one by one, she'll tediously roll them all the way back to Monoceros, pray that the wind didn't blow them away, and then add it to the growing collection of shinies she accumulated. It was pretty small now, but she swore that one day, she'd have enough to dazzle the entire caves.
It was then, on a trip back with a tiny quartz in tow, she noticed something she hadn't before. It was some small pile (though absolutely ginormous in comparison to Sharp) huddled just inside the entrance of Monoceros. She couldn't see much besides disappointingly dull scraps of armor and old meat, though there certainly was something shiny near the top. So, abandoning her find, she began scaling up the gargantuan pile with nothing but dull child claws.
It took quite some time (and a chipped claw) but Sharp finally dragged herself to the top of the dragon-sized stack, wheezing slightly. She looked somewhat like Jack-and-the-Bean-Stalk, except female, reptilian, and with not nearly as much brains. A quick glance down sent worries of how she would even get back down into her head, but that was all abandoned when she saw what she was standing on.
Shinies. Everywhere. Absolutely everywhere, no matter where she looked. The entire hoard was made of oh-so-many gems, rocks, metals, and things she couldn't even name. Many of them were larger than she was (which wasn't saying a lot, but it did to her). A faint waft of plants and meat also came from somewhere, though she barely registered it among all the wares. A particularly large gem studded with various colors caught her eye, and she instantly became enamored with it-- completely oblivious to the massive dragon now on the edge of her sight.
@Dread