World/Fate New
Event Two
A Creepy Crawly Spins The Web Of Destiny
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A strange hiss and clicking sound disturbs the young girl from her restful sleep. With little sense of danger the girl raises her head with a yawn to stare at the source of the peculiar sounds.
Eight red jewels glow in the dark.
She could make out a vague outline of a large creature poised over her dirt wall. The grass lightly ruffles as the sharp appendages of its every step moves its body forward. The fire illuminates the form of the beast as it clicks its mandibles in an audible sound.
A 'spider' the young girl recognized it as.
Generally a venomous creature with sharp fangs and a powerful pounce, capable of scaling most surfaces without problem, categorized under 'Arachnids;' the bug had a tendency to avoid human contact.
At nearly three times her size, it was a gigantic beast with a sleek black carapace that shined under the light of the fire.
The girl sat up as it slowly and warily approaches her. She gives it a curious look before yawning again and lying back down. The Spider reacts by backing away several steps and the girl rises back up and looks the bug in the eyes. She pats the ground next to her and waits.
The Spider rises its forelegs in an intimidating fashion but the young girl only blinks at the action with a tilted head.
She stands up and places two Dirt cubes directly below her position and looks down upon the arachnid, with her hands on her hips she triumphantly huffs at it. The beast lowers itself and takes several more steps back. The young girl lightly hops off the pedestal and knocks down the two blocks.
She gives it one last curious look before lying back down on the grass and easily falling back to sleep.
[...]
The human girl woke with a stretch and glances around at her surrounding. She finds the eight red eyes from the night before peering over the edge of her dirt wall. When the beast notices her line-of-sight, it quickly ducks down, though its large body and legs could still be seen.
The girl giggles and quietly crawls on all fours towards the wall. She crouches and peeks over the wall the same way the Spider had. When the giant bug rose its eyes to notice that she was now much closer to it, it made a rampant clicking noise before ducking down in panic again.
Climbing on top of the wall, she lies on her belly, kicking her leg back and forth in the air, and reaches out a hand to rub the head of the Spider.
The carapace is smooth and polished, hard and soft, a clean deep black that reflected light brightly.
The Spider raises its head and the girl gives it a warm smile.
[...]
The view of the world both opened up and shrank as the little girl went up the mountain. She was somehow magnetically seated onto the back of the Spider as it skillfully and carefully scales the towering mountain.
The air high above was thinner than down below and the cool winds blew far more often with greater strength.
Yet none of that distracted the girl.
Large forests covered the lands and many other tall mountains pierced the skies. In the distant, the clear shapes of islands and continents dotted the sea. Turning her head around the girl could see that her own island's forested trees gave way to wide opened fields and further beyond that were the burning deserts with small body of waters, such as some ponds, lakes, or oases, scattered about.
She could make out the shapes of multiple flock of birds flying over the ocean or traveling to another island. Or the forms of goats jumping up or down the sides of the other further mountains. Or the herds of cows and bulls grazing in the distant grasslands.
The young girl deeply dedicates every single moment of the breathtaking view into memory and promises to never forget it.
Today, she saw more of this beautiful world.
Author Notes
Word/Fate New is going to be a short story and each chapter will also be real short.
I'm not sure if it's the right word but I think 'Episodic' will describe how these chapters will be.