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[idolpro]

[ You go, onward and upward.



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THE GATES | THE COURTYARD | THE FOUNTAINS | THE GARDENS

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[beeknighted]

[Does that thing where your brains tricks you into thinking you're falling when you sleep so you jerk awake, except he is actually falling.]

Ah-- Ah??

Tea? Michael?

[Pushing himself up, looking around for his friends??? And then uh.... Moving forward, smoothing his hand over the grass. Does it feel weird or flicker?]

[idolpro]

[ Even the sound of your voice is almost swallowed up by the stillness here, and you can feel it in you as natural as your own heartbeat: there isn't a way be physically here at all without being alone.

The grass itself is solid—real in a way so intense that your own realness feels almost ambivalent in comparison.

It's the rest of your surroundings besides this newly revealed grass which seem to flicker with the mist. ]

[beeknighted]

[This is so weird. Looking around the meadow, standing on the grass properly, is there anything around this meadow to see?]

[idolpro]

[ Well, you haven't revealed a meadow yet—just this little patch of one.

...Or at least that was true up until a moment ago, when you started focusing on the meadow more intently.

The rest of the stone path bends like refracting light—an illusion that disappears in a bright flash of blue flame. And now the true garden stands before you: a meadow beneath a sky that shimmers with the shifting rainbow of light, with the horizon stretching as far as the eye can see. As the colors merge into that horizon, they form a pure-glowing white. The meadow itself, filled with flowers, reflects the sky in its rainbow. In fact, one might notice that no two flowers are exactly alike in color or breed.

You yourself stand at an entrance: a gate of white metal that gives off its own light.

It feels as though one mystery—the mystery of where you are—is slowly beginning to resolve, but how you got here is still a wonder. It weighs on your mind, in the back of your throat like a lump, but at once, you feel as though the drowsiness still remains, and your eyelids feel heavy.

Some yards away, there is a single tree. Its swaying branches beckon you to rest beneath them, if only for a moment. ]

[beeknighted]

[...........oh wow this is a lot

but first things first, can I speak properly yet]

Tea? Michael?

[idolpro]

[ You can speak, but you're just as alone here as you were before.

It's peaceful, though. Meditative, perhaps. ]

[beeknighted]

[I'm so sleepy but I GOTTA FIND MY FRIENDS

Looking at that tree and uh.

Clasping his hands in prayer I guess.]

Dear god. I don't remember any prayers. But please help me find the ones I need. Amen.

[idolpro]

[ Perhaps your prayer was heard. Perhaps you are doing no more or less than making a promise to yourself.

Regardless, there is no answer. Just the sway of the flowers, lovely and unique, in the sweet-scented breeze. ]

[beeknighted]

[well it was worth a shot. Leans down to inspect one of the flowers. Does being a bee tell me anything about this flower, how's the pollen.]

[idolpro]

[ Your animal senses don't have anything to share with you here—except perhaps an extra appreciation of the gently floral scent of the air. But your human eyes can still take a closer look, so you lean in towards the nearest flower to you

It's... a little white flower, its six leaves almost like a star. A... snowdrop? Yes, despite the season and the climate, there's a pure white snowdrop growing at your feet.

This flower is the part of reality that is something changed forever.

How do you know that? Unclear. You just do; the knowledge feels as natural as breathing. ]

[beeknighted]

Something changed forever...? Well yeah, it seems like heaven has been through some changes.

[Getting up and walking towards the tree. The drive to sleep is strong, but what if instead, he floats up to the very top and stands on the highest branch to see what he can see from above]

[idolpro]

[ Well, you're about to do that, but then— ]