The boy smiled excitedly as he finished the sentence, "Yha! No one goes there hardly ever! come on!" He said before racing out of the room. It was odd to the enderman, the boy was so carefree and without worry. He must understand to some extent the importance of the egg. Didn't anything provoke seriousness in the boy?
"We don't have to be too careful this time, everyone is gone during the day." the boy explained walking out of the room, a hint of loneliness as his gaze ran across the hall.
"Why? It would seem if you had such a safe place, why leave?" The enderman asked, he certainly knew that if he had the choice to go home and live in the certain safety or to stay here in this world of burtes. He would go home in a heart beat.
But as he looked down at the boy, he realized he enjoyed his feel good attitude. No one in the End was like that, there was just the constant, never ending gloom.
"Don't you think it would be boring? Just staying in these tunnels? Never doing or seeing anything?" The boy asked, bitterness evident in his voice.
"If your safe, why does it matter if it is boring?" Though as the enderman spock the words he realized that in some way it did matter. He had felt many times when a loneliness nearly consumed, when his brothers left leaving him to stay in safety while they explore this world.
He remembered, every single time.
When he opened his eyes, he had realized that his brother had already left the small cave. In panic he quickly slid off the obsidian, running down the long tunnel other, younger enderman like himself peering out there heads.
"Little brother! You'll get in trouble again!" they called after him as he ran. Ignoring the warnings he charged through the end stone.
Breaking through to the large opening, he ran straight to the tallest of the enderman among the other older enderman. "Brother! Brother Na!" he called.
The taller enderman, just barely glanced at him before disappearing with the others.
He still ran to the spot, forgetting to stop as he collided with something big and hard.
He looked up at the End dragon's wing, looking up into her ancient eyes seeming to know what he was thinking before he knew himself.
"My child, If I may ask why it is only you who show such enthusiasm in wishing the brother goodbye?" She asked with a voice that almost instantly filling him with comfort and security. "I suppose, because they get to see the other world." he answered "And I like to image I am with them." he explained.
"Hum, Why would you want to go away from your home? You might find that dreams of adventure could easily turn to nightmares. Don't forget that in all your loneliness." She said before slowly getting up from the ground and walking to the portal into the other world, the egg perched on top. "Now, go learn your lessons. I hear you are an excellent student." He bowed his head, rushing back to the tunnels.
Even though he was surrounded by other little enderman, and the teacher always offered smiles. He was alone, reading and dreaming about the other world. Wanting nothing more than to escape this boring life, to break the inevitable boring future he had. Was he truly the only one who felt that way? Wasn't anyone like him?
Then the day happened, his mother, proctor, friend, was killed by the thing that came from the place he had so longed to escape to. And now that he was here, the only color he saw was red.
The dream did become a nightmare.