hohum ~ L-1 (Vi, ekiM, Percy, Jahudo, Zachrulez)
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It was only ten minutes ago that Jack came bounding out of the brush, scratches across his face and babbling that he had found the way to Elysium, but it felt like eons ago. Somehow he convinced you and the others to follow him on the trail, but you are quickly becoming convinced that you are lost. These woods are alive and you can no longer hear the hum of the band. Overhead the leaves and branches of the trees weave together in complex geometric patterns that flow together endlessly.
It is difficult to turn your eyes from them as you drag along slowly behind Jack's confused lead. You feel heat gathering first at the base of your spine and slowly crawling its way up like an ancient vine. It slithers between your vertebrae and makes you strong like the lattice work of the canopy.
You chuckle at the though of Cobalt's body rotting away to fertilize the grass into a Cobalt-shaped patch of green. C'est la vie, asshole.
It is at this exact moment in the march that you trip and the lattice work is replaced by the darkness again. You feel your head bounce and roll in an explosion of light immediately after. It is brilliant and electric and reaches out to the warm vine that has nested in your brain now. They tie together and you are the glue. Pleasure is enveloping you over and over in pulsating waves and you are being pulled deeper into the light. Your mind is simultaneously ascending and descending toward a greater knowledge, some secret you have known since the beginning of time, yet forgot somehow.
You can hear someone screaming your name from beyond the Edge now. They scream louder and you open your eyes to find yourself half-soaked and prostrate at the edge of a shallow creek.
He was an old friend, but even friends must come to an end sometimes. This long, strange trip has just begun, you think.