I love the sky and the outdoors

  Now that i think about it, Identify has been talking a lot more lately. Have I raised my relationship bar with her enough to get actual answers?

  “Hey identify, we’re best buddies now right? What exactly are you?”

  “Ugh useless, what about heroes? Are there more like me?”

  “Thanks, i shouldn't have asked”

  Identify is as tsun as ever, but with that small bit of banter I gaze over the final rays of sunlight making way to the glistening stars over the sea of clouds below.

  Darkness looms over the city as im left alone here with my thoughts

  Many things have happened since i got sent here

  I Relapse to meeting the De~/\/\__N//??

  I Recall the first kill i ever had, a skinny wolf that didn't taste very good

  I Reject the fruit incident

  I Reflect on meeting side, how she kinda just appeared and inserted herself into my party but quickly became best girl

  I Remember that brief stint with the baboons

  I Retrospect on the many elf varieties and meeting I

  I Regret separating with the small party i just got together

  I Relive getting my arm ripped off by that wolf, kidnapped by a wyvern, assaulted by tuna, eaten by a bigger fish and dissolved alive all in one day (i think?) to then be stuck in that tower for who knows how long…

  I Return, arriving here looking over a roiling sea of black

  Was this all planned? Some grand April fools joke? Is my suffering so amusing?

  It’s funny, the first quiet time I get and I instantly get lost in the past

  The dark night is kinda peaceful, no dager, no running, no pain, no one around me except for the birds. Really loud birds.

  Nightvision lets me see far more than I should. but I'm not complaining.

  Every single day has been one event after another that i forget how short the time i’ve spent here

  For what?

  My companions lost who knows where

  My items decayed and broken

  My life hanging by a thread but immortal?!

  Is there a point to it? To defeat some grand evil? To please some mysterious old man? For some jokes and laughs?

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  Everything ceases as we pass through a cloud

  As if time stopped. All that exists is me and the warmth resting on my back

  Faintly, with the strength of a feather the egg on my back wobbles as if trying to assure me everything will be alright

  Thanks.

  I whisper and wrap my arms around the warm egg

  Time resumes once more as we emerge from the cloud taking gulps of fresh air

  Yeah, there are things to hold on to, things to experience. I don’t want to go back to my old life so I better make this one the best I can!

  Even if this world is messed up, at least it's funny, right? Every cloud has a silver lining if you delude hard enough!

  I fall asleep with the cuddling my child

  I open my eyes.

  It's dark.

  So very dark..

  My breathing quickens as I scan the surroundings to no avail. Night Vision isn't working.

  The darkness sticks to my flesh, wrapping its tendrils around my neck, suffocating.

  Body shaking as tears stream down my face

  With a faint hum light flickers to life in the corner of the room

  That familiar noise…

  I rub my blurry eyes and step forwards only to trip on my overly long hair

  No. No. no…

  I crawl on all fours to my salvation, the one place i could truly call my home

  With the last of my willpower I reach out my bony hand, tapping the old beat up pc.

  Everything flashes to white.

  Eyes rocketing open with one hand stretched to the sun i gasp for air

  My heart beating like a drum with my whole body drenched in sweat

  I take deep breaths, clutching my chest

  The warmth on my back wiggles to announce its presence

  Right. Yes. I'm here. I’m alive

  My name is su now and i live in a fantasy world

  I clench my fists, drawing blood. The pain assuring me that this is indeed reality.

  I pat the egg and give it a hug.

  Thanks lil buddy