I woke up in a sweat. Beads falling from the the bridge of my nose.
"It was a dream. All just a dream." I tried to reassure myself.
But it was no coincidence that I saw the same man in my dreams as well...This was turning to be awfully suspicious.
And to think I finally got away from it all, I mumbled. Those fires, man, fires just destroy everything.
I picked up my leather armor and adjusted it upon myself.
Okay, today we go mining. I really need some iron and maybe diamond? Pfftt, if we're lucky, I joked to myself.
I was deep in exploration. I don't know how long I've been down here and I don't know how deep.
What I do know is that diamond is just an arm's length away.
Too bad the only thing keeping me from it was a pit of lava.
"Okay, Camille, be smart. No stupid mistakes..." I always found it comforting trying to pep myself up.
I placed a few dirt blocks into the lava, hoping it wouldn't burn.
It didn't!
"Crazier things have happened." Like that time a sheep was just floating on nothing. You could literally see through the world!
I inched closer towards the diamond and slowly started picking at the ore with my worn-down iron pick.
Finally the diamonds turned into small pieces and I pocketed them.
"I have a total of seven diamonds, thirty-two iron, some lapis..."
In the middle of my inventory check, an arrow whizzed past my head. Just scathing me.
Instantly I took out my crappy stone sword and scouted for a mob.
The left? No.
The right? No.
Where is that son of a-
"Aha! Hurrrrr...!" I charged at the skellington. Before it could even start to aim at me, I attacked it with my sword. Skillfully knocking out bone.
"Thought you got the upper hand, huh?" I collected some of its bones and took its bow. That could come in handy, already planning what I could do with the new loot.
I think I'm good for now, I thought to myself.
I made my way up my makeshift stairs and headed toward the surface.
There was still light out, I can feel the warm rays of the sun as I ascended.
The first thing I see as I reached dirt was a stone pillar.
"What the hell is this?..." I quietly asked. I don't remember making this and even if I did, stone? Tacky and better used for more crappy tools.
I tried to ignore it and convince myself that maybe I did place it, making a marker on where I started mining, right?
Right?
I headed inside, my mine was just outside the house, and started to put some ores in the ovens to smelt it.
I thought I had a good set-up going on here. A decent home, tools, a village...
The village, right! I can go visit and see if I can buy things from the locals.
I waited for some ores to smelt and crafted them into better tools and armor.
I can keep the iron armor here and keep the leather on. Don't want to intimidate the villagers. I kept some gold and iron I found in my inventory.
Once I thought I got everything I need, I headed out.
The village a fairly large one. There were at least seven houses, a forge, and a priest tower. There was a whole lotta wheat farms too, dang!
There were some stalls in the center of the town and I approached one that had different food on display.
"How may I help ya, little lady? You must be new 'round here, huh, ain't seen you in town before." The man greeted. He had a warm smile and seemed to be middle-aged.
"Oh, uh, yeah. I live on the outskirts of the plains. Just moved here, name's Camille." I leaned in to shake hands with the man and he gladly accepted the gesture.
"So how much for ten porkchops and three steak?" As far as I can tell the meat was freshly cooked for steam was still radiating off from the meat. Yum...
"Two gold for the pork, an' steak's on the house! 's first time in this place an' I dun wanna scare you off, yeah?"
I paid for the meat and said my thanks. Meat, check.
I didn't really have much else to buy so I just looked around at everything. The locals here were really friendly and I managed to make a friend. His name was Jacob and his family were carpenters.
"I can show you around town! I'll be your personal guide, m' lady." He gave me a dopey smile. Jacob seemed to be around my age, 17. He looked muscular, but still had that boyish charm.
We were just wandering around the markets and houses when I decided to ask him about that pillar.
"Say, Jacob, do you know anybody whose been wandering out of the town? Maybe likes to build random things?" I asked. Better to ask someone, I guess. Maybe I can solve this mystery now.
"Hmm...I dun' think so. Why? Stuff being built near your house? Oh! And have I mentioned how cool it is that you live by yerself! Do your parents mind?" Jacob said curiously.
"Wow, you have a short attention span. But it's endearing." I giggled, he blushed.
"My parents don't really care either way, and yeah. There was this really strange stone pillar outside my house and I don't think I made it."
"Hmm, I dun' reckon anyone has been outside the town." Jacob thought some more, staring off into the other direction.
"Oh well, it was only a pillar right? No harm done." He smiled again. I looked up at him, smiling back.
Though I still felt just a tad bit uncertain about the whole thing.
The sun started setting and I told Jacob I had to go. My house wasn't that close to the village so hopefully I don't come across too much trouble.
I was walking down a small hill and over the distance I could see my house. I smiled to myself and jogged over.
Just as I was reaching the front door something stopped me.
There was sand at my door.
For now I will only play, darling.
I hope you can stand for what is to come for your dear Jacob.
You followed and watched her go to the village. There she met with a boy, and you felt something.
Something quite familiar, though foreign and distant.
Betrayal.
But why? To feel betrayal you must have a form of bond, yes?
Strange, to feel something other than constant hatred, you think to yourself.
Strange, indeed...
So I draft these chapters on my iPad, actually. After that, I send it to my e-mail which I then transfer to a word document and upload on here. Predicting the actual layout of these chapters is surprisingly difficult since the main editing is also done after I upload the chapters on the dock.
You're probably thinking, girl y u no just type them out here?, well the problem with that is because the only time I get creative is when I'm no where near a computer so welp, iPad is the next best thing, right?
BTW: Story'll probably only updated on Mon., Fri., and possibly Sun.
Come visit me on Tumblr as well! I do all the art for this story but feel free to ask a request on what I should draw ;)
