Follow the Coast
“I don’t want to get lost at sea! That’s not the point of this! I’ll just follow the coast, maybe I’ll spot dolphins or something from up here!” You shift yourself, suddenly arching around in a looping turn that shifts you to fly parallel to the coast. On the fringe of your vision, way to the side, you can see a hint of the boat-lined shore.
As you fly, your eyes are constantly locked on the water beneath. You want to catch sight of something you couldn’t see ever as a human being trapped on two legs and constantly disrupting natural life!
Suddenly, you spot a small object!~
“What’s that?!” You dip towards it, instantly eager to investigate. You fly nearer and nearer to see that it’s a piece of paper, soaked but floating on the surface of water. Across it are the lines of a map, sections of islands; but on one spot, there’s a massive X!
“I-is that....” Your voice instinctively hushes, even mentally. “Is that a treasure map?!”
Instantly, you pluck it up, more eager than ever to explore the world if you have a treasure map to do it! You study it back on the dock, resting yourself before you instantly take off on this tracking journey. You carry the map, crumbled on one foot but you don’t need it, memory leads you from island to island.
You rest and hunt at each stop, living for the next day’s leg of the journey. Finally, after weeks or more of intermittent flying, you find the island scribbled on the map. You soar through its trees and foliage, finding the cave marked on the map.
“Wow!” you breath out, slowly landing and starting shuffle into its dark insides with careful, slow steps until you see the shadow of a massive trunk! “A treasure chest!” You creep in closer, using a single shred of light to see that there’s a skeleton resting over top of the box! “Eek!”
“Made it all that way just for that, hmm?” you think, musing sadly before you kick him off and then pick open the trunk. It dropped open, revealing its insides. It spills open in front of you, but there’s not a single sparkle of gold coins like you imagined at all! Instead there’s another parchment paper.
“So you’re an adventurer...” you read from the paper.
“If you’d like the adventure of a lifetime, I have a place for you.... Take this scroll and dive into the waterfall around the bend outside to find a house of countless adventures!”
“Why the heck not?!” you think, thrusting yourself back out of the cave with a feverishly flight and diving right into the spray of the waterfall. Your body suddenly feels hot, searing with energy before you jostle to your senses, utterly refreshed.
The world is dark, your eyes are shut.
You open your eyes to see a set of familiar doors. The exact same doors you’d seen long before when you’d selected your bird costume in the first place!”
“Wow! I got back!” you think, unsure briefly if you’re glad or not to have lost your wings and returned to your human, male gender form. But, with a shrug, you figure now you can simply select another door.
Written by Picklessauce69 on 17 June 2016
