I couldn't believe my luck as I stared down at the person who I thought until a second ago was a skeleton. I had rushed forward ready to kill the mob only to be presented by the young girl below me who looked barely old enough to be a teenager. She had snow white hair that flowed down to her mid back and her eyes were a bright orange. Her clothing consisted of silver puffer coat with giant white fluff balls for the buttons. Below that she wore an ordinary pair of jeans and for her feet was a pair of silver boots with the same fluff that made her buttons. I didn't pay much more attention after this as I remembered my main rule which I had followed since I was a kid and that was to trust no one.
"Name?" I said as I retracted the sword slowly but kept close enough just in case. The girl eyed the blade with fear before looking back up to my eyes.
"F-Frostlyn." She answered in a tone that sounded either scared or cold but I had a feeling it was the first. I raised an eyebrow at her name but I decided not to push for it as I wanted to know why she was so close to my land.
"Business for being here?" She didn't answer as she continued to eye my blade and figuring it was scaring her too much I got off of her and stood up and offered her a hand. After pulling her up I repeated my question.
"I wanted to find out who was living in my Biome." She finally replied. Once again I raised my eyebrow in question but this time I asked a counter question.
"Your biome?" I asked accusingly but not enough to sound harsh.
"Yes, mine." She said softly. I didn't know what to think or how to respond to this so I decided to ignore it since this whole situation would soon be over in one way or another.
Sighing in annoyance I asked my last question, "And the purpose of that?" I knew this was a death game now so she could be here for any number of reasons. But I wouldn't kill her unless she attempted to do so to me which I highly doubted as I so far had not even seen any hint or sign of a weapon on the young girl.
"To help." was her reply. I stood there watching her for a second before I busted out laughing. I was laughing so hard that I had to hold my stomach and it was minutes before I regained my composure. After I finally regained control and stood back up straightly I saw the girl eyeing me strangely.
"I'm sorry but after what we learned a week ago I highly doubt you want to help a random stranger since we are supposed to be technically killing on another," I told her.
"Why would we kill each other?" She asked confused and so seriously I felt as if she truly believed those words.
"To get back home." I sad somewhat sadly. Here she was a young girl who was probably scared out of her mind. Getting home was probably the best thing that could happen for her no matter how improbable it would be.
"But I am home." She said in the same serious tone. I looked at her as my eyes widened in a faint recognition. The way she said it was so truthful it reminded me of myself. In fact, it was so reminiscent that I realized she was probably one of the other hundred people who had actually played this game.
"I know the feeling and I also feel like I lived here my whole life but there is a home you have to get back to," I said. She tilted her head in confusion as if I had said something funny.
"But I was born here." She finally said.
"Did you lose your memory of where you were born?" I asked honestly pitying the girl.
"No I did not lose my memory and I know I was born here." She puffed up her cheeks cutely in protest.
"So you claim you were born here?" I asked just to confirm.
"Yes!" She said annoyed.
"And why do you know this?" I asked fearing for the girl's mentality.
"Because my mom told me so and also lives here!" This drew my curiosity as I wondered if the mom was in a similar state.
"And who is your mom exactly?" I asked trying to get more information.
"The queen of the snow golems duh!" She said as it was the most obvious thing in the world.
"Excuse me?" I asked to make sure I didn't mishear her.
"Queen of snow golems." She said each word slowly as if talking to an idiot. I tilted my head in confusion until I once again looked at her appearance realizing what had happened.
"Of course there's mod," I said to nobody in particular as I walked away from the girl just done with the conversation and myself.
"Hey, where are you going?" The girl asked as I walked back over to my campfire and sat down against the same tree as I had been before this whole ordeal. I didn't respond as I once again stared blankly into the fires listening to the crackle of the fire that emanated from the actual fire and from the fires in the furnaces. I only bothered to look at the girl when she stood directly in front of me.
"What?" I asked not amused.
"What do you mean 'What!?' You just walked away for no reason." She exclaimed.
"Sorry, I'm not that big of a fan of mods," I replied drawing a look of confusion from the girl. "You have no idea what I'm talking about do you?" She shook her head drawing a sigh from me. "I guess it can't be helped so besides that what else do you want?"
"Well, you see umm..." The girl's cheeks reddened as if she was embarrassed as she stood rocking back and forth slowly. "I wanted to help and live with you." She finally sputtered out. My eyes widened as she said this but they narrowed just as quickly.
"You just love saying inconvenient things don't you." She frowned at my words.
"So that's a no?" I shook my head as I couldn't believe what was currently happening.
"Why do you want to help and live with me?" I asked getting to the root of the issue.
"Because you're like me." I started wondering what part about her I was like before I realized something. If my theory was true then she was part of a mod that made her free-willed and intelligent whilst being royalty to her mobline. This would mean that everyone she knew was some blocky creature and it would make sense that she wanted to be near me since I had the same structure as her.
"Is it because I'm not blocky?" I asked. She nodded her head confirming my suspicions. I scratched the palms of my hands wondering what I should do before coming up with an easy solution. "Alright, I will let you live with me on the condition that you help me build the house." Her face immediately brightened up and I had to hide a chuckle as that face wouldn't remain there for long.
"Alright I'll help you with that, let's go get the supplies." She began to walk off before stopping after noticing I wasn't following her. She gave a look of confusion but I just made a follow gesture as I removed a specific block on the ground revealing a ladder going down half a dozen blocks. After we both got down the ladder I was smirking at the girl as her mouth stood agape.
"All of the supplies are here." She got out of her trance and went over to a chest to see it was filled to the brim with stone brick blocks and those similar to it. She then opened a few more chests which contained the exact same items causing her to turn around and look at me like I was a madman.
"Are all of these stone bricks?" She asked. I gave a slow nod enjoying this way too much. "What exactly do you plan on building?" At this, my grin widened as my plan came to full.
"I am building a castle for me to live in indefinitely." This was my plan all along but if she wanted to live here she was going to help me build it since I didn't trust. With me alone this would take a week to build but if she helped the time would be halved and I figured it someone spent that much time helping me build a house they could gain the smallest amount of trust from me.
"All of this for one castle?" She said motioning to the dozens of chests.
"This is my one condition for living with me. If you help you gain a small amount of my trust if you don't then well you don't get to stay." She took a thinking pose before she gave a nod.
"Fine I'll help but you better be telling the truth." I gave a satisfied grin as I went over to a chest and procured two dozen shovels and handed her half of them. "What are these for?" She asked curiously.
"To clear out space for the castle of course," I said with a grin. And so the torturous task of building a castle began.
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