Beautiful Beast

Clover 1

Gaius has gone a bit... Gone.
Where is he? Oh he's still here. Just not here, if you catch my drift. He's lost somewhere in his mind, like he can't remember he's alive, or that we're here...
Who's we, you ask?
Oh that'd be me and my- why, who is we? There isn't anyone here except for me besides him.
Unimportant details anyhow. What does it matter who we is anyway, perhaps we, is you and I? I mean surely it could just be you and I.
Yes, absolutely, it is just you and I.
I suppose he forgets we're here. I mean sometimes I forget you are. Is it any different to forget the reader of your story, than a character of it?
Both observers, outsiders. They'll never truly understand how your mind works, try as they might, and as much as they believe they do.

Everything was quiet , And an irrational fear came over me. What if there wasn't anyone, anywhere? What if everyone was just gone. What if I was the last one left?
What if I was nowhere? What if I was nowhere at all? What if I was everywhere? Everywhere at once?! What if different pieces of me were scattered all across the world? All across the worlds?!
Warm hands cupped my own, I looked up "I can see your mind at work." She commented. "Be at rest, my child. There is nothing to be afraid of."
I glanced down and our interlaced fingers, studying the blue scales of her skin. An everlasting problem of mine, I thought too much. How can one think too much? Well,you saw what I was thinking, being irrational, and scaring myself. I asked unanswerable or ridiculous questions, I pondered deep into thought, and become almost philosophical.

It was downright silly.

"I'll be on my way now, I have some work to do in the fields." She states, getting off her perch on the window ledge next to me, floating down to the dirt ground. She smiles with both her mouths, winking at me with her glimmering green marble eye.

I urge myself to rise, bored with my current state, and skip around the house by utilizing the ledges, all the way to my bedroom ledge. Outside my bedroom window and directly below it is the courtyard, a grassy area, with a big green tiled circle in the middle, with a lone swing tied to a singular melody tree, planted to neighbor the circle quite complimentary. I drop myself off the ledge, landing expertly on my feet in fifth position, a term used in something called Ballet, a thing I picked up from the many other-worldly novels Gaius had picked up from his travels. I stare up the golden brick building at the third floor window, that held the creatures. A clap of the hands and Lidia somersaulted put the window and landed into my arms. A black kitty, sewn by yours truly. In making her, I filled her Mind with dirt from the Circle Road, so she'd always have a sense for adventure, newspaper clippings so she'd be genius, and fire embers to give her a mischievous charm. Her teeth were made of pearls I found in a box in the artifacts room along with her eyes made of Jade. She was made of deeply dark velvet and stuffed with hand picked clouds from the top of Mountain Aduloo . She nuzzled my hand, with her nose of pink sanded stone, staring up at me. "Darling Clover, for what could we be set out to do today?" She asked me. I sat down on the wooden swing, her in my lap. "I haven't the faintest clue. Gaius is still gone..."
She licks her paw, "He is simply missing some bits... He will find them soon enough. But that doesn't mean we can't have fun without him."
I stare at her, perplexed. "But what could we do then?"
She stops her licking, and a glimmer of mischievousness shines back at me. "Let's leap!" She purrs excitedly, jumping into a standing position, her tail sticking straight up. I look at her incredulously, how could she ask me to do such a thing? So I ask her just that.

"Oh, Clover, it's been a right bore these past few weeks doing absolutely nothing." She groans, laying out on me and stretching, before turning on her back. I peer down at the patchwork kitty, rubbing her tummy, I let out a flustered huff of breath. "I just don't know Lidia. Leaping is a bit dangerous without Gaius, and besides where could I possibly take us?"
She's quiet, and some blue breezy breezers flit past us, leaving a memory of deep longing lingering in the air. What perfect timing really, I now longed to leap. Oh I wanted to leap terribly, now!
I huffed and stood up, keeping my composure, and holding stead fast to my willpower, moving to another side of the courtyard with lesser wind. I float upwards onto a high point in the bleached stone wall, that guarded the giant home. Lidia in hand, Safe from longing, I sat.
But the wind was smart, and quick. Now orange breezy breezers billowed past, a memory of sword fighting and wizard duals swarmed me. Why, I could smell the magic!
I felt adventurous, oh splendid adventure! I wanted to take an adventure to somewhere new. Oh but how would I get there? Yes! I know, I'll leap! Before I knew it, I had dropped myself straight through the wall, venturing to another layer, all about me felt like a wind wrapping itself, I could hear voices, shouting, whispering, screaming, sobbing, giggling, groaning, excited, dejected, scornful, happy, elated, sorrowful, pitiful voices.