(Chatter "Grandpa where is he?") A figure wrapped from head to toe except for the eyes like a mummy walked towards the old monkey who has his back to them and who has his head raised at the keeper of time looming above him.
(Chatter "He is grieving what he should have grieved in the past.") The old monkey replied, his figure in front of a glowing pool that is supporting some blue aquatic plants that reflects the light of the blue moon above, quiet sorrowful.
(Chatter "What do you mean grandpa?") The mummy figure under a large shrub with glowing white flowers and standing behind the old monkey, asked with a chatter that maintain its cadence.
("He is crying his heart out. We should let him be.")The old monkey replied then turn his head to the side at the highest peak in the distance many kilometers away and highlighted by the light of the blue moon dominating the sky.
So that's where he is, why act like you don't want me to know... The mummy figure upon seeing the old monkey's probably not sneaky action, turned and disappeared like they came into the glowing herb garden that hides the pool of bright blue waters- almost matching the moon's glow in color, as it skirts and fence it.
My granddaughter has grown up indeed... The old monkey eyes reflected the mummy fugure running towards the highest peak, and then he looked to the side at the highest peak.
"Hmm..." His face looking to the side welcomed a frown at something he might have noticed in the direction. (Chatter "Very unusual.") He mummured, ignored the aberraration and then resumed his previous action of staring at the blue moon.
***
A ghostly figure scales the top of a giant rock several kilometers high, highlighted by the light of the blue moon like a monkey with great ease and like gravity has little hold on them.
Soon the figure reach the top of the rock- a jagged and rugged rocky plain, the size of about a hundred and fifty football stadiums, with potholes dotting it like craters and smaller rocks scattered on it. And they head in a direction where a rectangular rock about two meters tall sit.
(Chatter "Idiot. So, this is where you are, and i have been looking for you since") The mummy figure hollered as they got closer to the rectangular rock which stand glued to and behind a peculiar Shadow.
Shortly after they reached the rectangular rock, climbed on top of it, lie on it on their stomach and peered below at the other side of the rectangular rock where the shadow is, and at a figure leaning against it and facing east.
"So, its you. What do you want?" The figure-Skylar, asked in a low voice as he raised his face- obviously swollen from crying, and a set of bloodshot eyes on the wrapped face of the familiar mummy figure peering down at him.
(Chatter "Just want to see you...") The mummy figure replying, paused. Then with a change of tone, a tone that feigns aggression, demanded (Chatter "...or am i not welcome?")
"Okay, you are welcome" With resignation in his voice, Skylar replied the mummy figure. And silence ensues for some seconds.
(Chatter "Why were you crying?")
"Why are you wrapped like a mummy?"
Both simultaneously inquired the other.
(Chatter "You first")
"Me first"
Skylar requested first then the mummy figure.
Skylar forseeing the figure's forthcoming insistence, raised his head towards them again and explained. "Okay, i was not crying. Its because something stung my face when i was coming here, very obvious, right?"
You are clearly lying... The mummy figure with their heterochromic pupils- one ruby and one gray; Stare deeply at Skylar who is beaming back at them a smile they find annoying.
"So, Karo, why are you dressed like that?" Skylar asked.
(Chatter "Must you know?") Karo replied, turning his body, with his back now lying on the rectangular rock.
"Did you use perfume?" Again, Skylar asked.
Karo turned his body again with his belly now lying on the rectangular block and responded. (Chatter "Why do you ask?")
"You smell like a girl" you've even be acting girly lately, do you swing that way... Skylar replied, his eyes staring at Karo's heterochromatic pupils expressing his thought.
(Chatter "Idiot") Karo responded, his expression a playful scorn, and then he rolled again, now lying on his back.
Wait, one of his eyes has changed, it wasn't like that before. Did he do something to it or it has always been like that. Even the pitch of his chatter has increased a bit ... "Karo, did something happen to you?" Skylar asked, looking to the east where the eight heavenly stars decides to have a meeting.
(Chatter "Nothing happened, except the ritual. But what about you? its unusual for you to be here at this hour.") Karo answered and sat up on the edge of the rectangular block, his eyes resting on Skylar's figure below.
Maybe nothing really happened... "Just checking out the stars..." Skylar answered but got interrupted by Karo's exclamation (Chatter "Wow!, all eight of them are in one direction, are we entering a monumental point in time ...")
"Why do you say that? Karo" Skylar asked Karo who expressed a sudden surprise after he looked at the heavenly stars in the east.
(Chatter "According to what i read, the eight of them has never been in the same half of the heaven like this, where they can all enter into one's view simultaneously.... They are even very close to one another and are lining up side by side. Very very unusual.") Karo explained while both of them watch as the eight planets finally line side by side horizontally like they are reverently welcoming a presence.
"Do the eight planets have names" Skylar asked as he broke the silence that crept in while the two watch the unique display of the heavens in the eastern sky.
(Chatter "Of course, the first one, the dull gray one with brownish-red streaks is called 'Merdia'- The sly one. The one next to it, the white one is called 'Sirone'- Mistress of vanity. The next one with reddish orange color is called 'Lars'- The red fury. The fourth one, the largest one with several color is called 'Jupiter'- Mightiest of the heaven. The also colorful one with many rings circling it is called 'Ulyssis'- The puppet master. The sixth one, the greenish blue one is called 'Khyros'- Watcher in the shadows. The second to the last with a deep blue color is called 'Niggoh'- The heartless. And the last one, the smallest of them all is called 'Pluto'- The spirit guide.") Karo lectured as she points sequentially at the eight heavenly stars.
They even copy and pasted the nine planets except earth. They could have even removed earth just to avoid complications... "Do you think they are very close to the ground?" Skylar asked after several minutes of silence and while they watch the relatively gigantic eight planets that seems to be about to land on ground maintain their unusual position in the sky like they are waiting for the acknowledgement of their king standing in front of them.
(Chatter "Impossible, they are thousands of sols far from us, they just look like this because of their size") Karo enlightened as he stretched his hand at the mightiest of heaven that seems to be at an arm's reach to both of them.
"What's a sol?" Skylar, partially enlightened asked.
(Chatter "A sol is one billion mitas...") Karo answered, then gestured in front of Skylar and when he did a carved straight line appeared on the very hard surface of the rock in front of Skylar. (Chatter "That's one mita")
"Oh" its almost a meter, so convenient...
Karo continued. (Chatter "One thousand mitas is one 'Yoda'. One thousand yoda is one 'Tor'. One thousand tor is a 'Sol' or a 'Divine solar'. One thousand divine solar is one divine mita. And it goes on like that.")
"Oh!, i get it" Skylar exclaimed in realization.
For the next couple hours, both in silence watch the display of the heavens: They watch as the planets like they have been dismissed, return to their respective divine office. They watch the death of stars. They saw nebulas drift from their partners. They watch comets like arrow streak across the sky. They saw meteors, some as large as the lunar moon ejected by the heavens and fall to the ground, some to the skies below the heavens luckily avoiding an eternal demise...
(Chatter "Cousin. Bring him to my place")
A voice projected from afar to Karo specifically, scare away the tranquility as he heeded it. He stood to his feet then instruct Skylar (Chatter "Sky follow me")
"Oh!" It must be the big guys in charge... Skylar stood to his feet and followed in the same manner as Karo, who wrapped like a mummy, has broken into a sprint across the gigantic rock surface down the highest peak.
Their figures one after the other, like phantoms and illuminated by the blue light of the foremost moon in the sky, jump elegantly like a ninja, over large obstacles on their path as they aim for one of the thirty six basins on the island.
Not long after, both putting a halt to their ghostly movement, they arrived in front of a clear water lake skirted by large flowering shrubs with glowing flowers just like lilac.
In the clear water illuminated by multicolored rays of lights from the heavens are gigantic trees rooted in it in a pattern like several concenteric circles. Moreover, on the tops of the leafless trees just above their trunks on their branches are wooden houses built in a circle around their crown; with all the wooden houses very large and identical.
"Crazy!" Hollowing out spaces in trees and building around it to make tree houses. Their achitcture is really innovative... Skylar muttered as he laid his eyes on the fantastical and large tree houses blocking the lights of the heavens but not the brilliant rays that pass through the gaps between them.
(Chatter "Sky, be careful") Karo warned the fascinated Skylar behind him after he took a second step on a swinging wooden bridge that's just barely touching the water surface it stretches over.
He is always doing that everytime he sees something new. Is he from a cave or something... Karo thought as Skylar who was probably unaware of what's in front of him by the help of his warning not loose his footing on the edge of the swinging bridge.
And after this saga, both figures for a while continue on the network of wooden bridge that seems to serve fairly all the trees in the lake with acess out of the lake, until they reached a special tree in the center which all others circled around orderly.
As both of them stood in front of the central gigantic tree with radius in hundred of mitas; right in front of them in the tree trunk, a passage appeared after the wooden door guarding it rolled to the side.
"So sophisticated" Skylar muttered after seeing this. Then he followed Karo inside, into the carved belly of the tree illuminated unexpectedly by stone lamps- its light generated from glowing stones, placed to the sides of the wooden and carved stairs they are now climbing up.
While Skylar followed behind Karo as they scale the wooden stairs, like he realized something while he watch the mummy figure in front, he paused a bit with a hand on his chin. "Karo, why has your rump grown bigger?" He asked frankly, his eyes never leaving the feminine and curvy backside of Karo in front of him swaying as he took his leisurely steps on the stairs.
(Chatter "Idiot, must you say everything that comes to your mind?") Karo turned behind and barked at the rude Skylar as he hold his rear with both hands and moved to the side, out of Skylar line of sight. (Chatter "You go in front, i will be behind you")
Why is he overreacting. I just observed. And her rump should be a lot bigger than that, if he removed the annoying thing he wrapped it with... wait, If he does that, won't he look like a girl... Skylar thought as he obediently and quietly walked past Karo who is staring angrily at him.
Not long after, they reached the end of the stairs, where a carved and engraved wooden door is. (Chatter "Just push it.") And Karo behind Skylar who is in front of the door instructed.
Then silently, Skylar pushed the very large door many times bigger than normal and it opened slowly and quietly to reveal what lay behind it.
"Fuck!" Eyes widened, he exclaimed at the sight that unfold in front of his eyes.