There was a serene sort of beauty to it all.
The little dime of light far, far above like a single blinding star in an empty void of stone and stalactites.
The rays of light that descended from this gap in the sky of stone that danced through the musty air.
The little pocket of five-petaled flowers, each one racing upwards to grasp their only lifeline in an endless expanse of darkness and carving out a home for themselves among the sparse littering of gravel and dirt beneath.
It was pretty. The kind of scene that you could stare at for thirty minutes.
Then there was me.
"The intrepid Bea braves the treacherous undergrowth—AHA! She sees it! Just over yonder... the cavernous caverns that looms in a way un-like a loom. Foreboding and dangerous... but what could be hidden within? The Gems of El-Dorado? The Fountain of Youth? Or perhaps something fantastic beyond our adventurous adventurer's wildest dreams?! Our wily spelunker steps inside with their heart pounding, the dark and chill do nothing to deter our mildy-determined hero as she peers into the depths of a—"
A twinge in the right shoulder blade, an ache in the spine, a dull throbbing of the hip.
Laying in the field of flowers.
I sighed.
How was I supposed to know that the ground around the hole was all crumbly and brittle?!
Well, it wasn't like I could do anything about it now.
I sighed again and looked around, taking inventory of my surroundings. I was in a cave—which was obvious—the ground was composed of smooth grey rock and so were the walls. The only notable thing around was the sole patch of greenery around was crinkling beneath my body, feeding off of the sunlight streaming from the place I had fallen down from.
Which, if I held my thumb up juust the right way and closed one eye, I could blot out like a little dime of light. A single star in a void of nothingness.
I took a second glance at the bed of flowers I had landed on, five-petaled yellow flowers, each one about as large as my hand. An endless expanse of darkness with a teeny-tiny patch of golden flowers in the sole path of sunlight, burrowed into tough coarse rock and fighting each other for survival.
Looking around, there was only one path I could take. At least I thought it was a path. There was enough light for me to see the walls in all directions except for one, where there was nothing but darkness. An ominous hallway that stretched out to… somewhere.
Sitting up, I walked forwards, towards the dark ominous hallway that I really shouldn't have been going towards with my arms blindly stretched out before me despite the hamster in my mind going, 'What a smart idea, going down the spooky hallway, what a genius you are Bea.'
"You were the one who suggested I go down the dark ominous hallway in the first place!" I responded... to myself.
And now I was talking to myself. Great.
Walking forwards like a blind mummy, I eventually reached a door that I could barely make out through the barest hints of light.
"A door!" I exclaimed as I reached what was most certainly not a door.
Two bone-white pillars holding up an arch with a strange symbol on it. An orb with two wings on either side and three triangles pointing away from the orb below it.
A symbol. An ominous one at that.
But with no other way to get out of the hole I had dug myself into, pushing onwards was the only way. I passed under the arch and scanned the—
Pink.
Glaringly vivid shades of pink and purple bombarded me from all sides. As if it wasn't an ugly color that looked horrible even when its presence was kept to a minimum. Two giant symmetrical staircases curved inwards to my left and right and joined together to make a platform far above where I barely see the top of another doorway.
Wha?
I couldn't hear anything except my own breathing.
There were no bugs moving to and fro. No rustling of the leaves in the wind. Just me and an ancient decrepit ruins that I had no idea existed until fifteen seconds ago.
Well, I chucked nervously. I guess I had gotten my wish. I had found something interesting.
...
Though I really would've preferred a waterfall.
Author's note (first time writing literally anything)
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