Myself and Arsene

[SilverHatake]

A new age in the making - 16/02/2019

 

 

Hi all! Sorry I have been away for so bloody long! With university starting back up, keeping up with Arsene became a lower priority matter. However, with my current mood, I could use some me time and what better way to have me time than to explore my own world with Arsene! I do apologize, this will be quite disjointed from out last adventure but hopefully you’ll still enjoy it as much as I did.

 

 

After having been away for so long, I was completely unsure of Arsene’s condition. My aims of making him my own equal have not faded, but I am in no rush to reach that conclusion any time soon, so any regression would not have been a major concern. I did, however, in my time away decide what I wanted to do with my wonderland, which will become more clear later.

 

 

In a flash of light, I entered the wonderland. I found this to be an excellent ‘ice breaker’ for starting an active force. Looking around, I had emerged in the Dark Woods, not too far from Aesene’s temple or the Bright Lake. (these names are unimaginative, yes, but they serve purpose) After the week I have had in the real world, a relaxing sit by the lake would not go amiss. I sat in on the damp ground and dipped my feet into the cool water. Looking over the lake, I spotted some animals. This was very new for my wonderland. I spotted several geese cruising around on the lake, and a kingfisher perched proudly near the middle of the lake on a piece of wood that jutted out from below the water's surface. I did not think to look for any fish, though they would have been generic. I don’t really know a lot about fish. I mean, I know generally what they look like and do, but I couldn’t tell you about a specific type of fish that interested me. Closing my eyes, and focusing on my other senses, I invited Arsene to sit by me and enjoy the water. With that, the familiar heavy clunk of his footsteps sounded behind me, then around, and ended with a gentle plop. I asked Arsene “Are you enjoying the water?” I waited for around 5 seconds and got a faint pluck of a response. Remembering it had been a while since I had last been here, I opened my eyes and looked for an expression. He was looking directly at me, much like he did in my first adventure in this world. I was mildly disheartened, but I had a new objective in mind.

 

 

Removing my feet from the lake, I stood up and began to walk away from the water’s edge. “I would like to try something,” I said to Arsene, as he followed my motions and stood next to me. His form had not altered, the same dome face, same cloak and same creepy hands and conical legs. He did stand around a foot taller than me though. He may have done that before and I had just failed to mention it. “We should try to form a kingdom of our own, right here somewhere” I began to ramble while walking towards the water source for the Bright Lake. “I’m not sure who or what we would rule over, but whatever it is, we can rule it and make it brilliant.” My nagging element of narcissism crept up on me at this point. “Of course I would need to look the part.” I summoned myself a white cloak, with a black interior with twinkling while dots throughout. (See White Diamond from Steven Universe) Now we just needed a location. I did not want to harm the areas that had been bought to me so clearly, so I pondered over what I could do. The most clear space was the Creek, but it would be most difficult to build there. Similar to a previous sensation, an image flashed into my mind of a palace rising out of the ocean near the creek, with me stood at the top of the rocks there. With that, I knew exactly what to do and where to go. I don’t know what these images are, perhaps it is Arsene dropping me hints or just my brain skipping ahead in my thought process.

 

 

So, we had a destination. We began our trek along the stream and across the wooden bridge. I tried to focus in on Arsene’s movements to try and increase his presence, but I couldn’t feel much more than his gaze back at me while I addressed him. Here, I had an odd sensation I have in real life often too. I can’t recall what I said to myself, but my brain repeated it exactly 3 times, along with the section of sounds that I heard along with it. Much like a broken record or scratched CD. I have no clue what causes this but I thought it would be interesting to share. I digress, we continued our march along the gravel path and finally reached the zenith of the stones, the spot where I had first really felt Arsene’s presence. I stood, feet together, and looked over the water ahead. I raised my hands and spread my arms outwards, just as I had in my premonition. Lo and behold, the ground began to shake, and a marble structure began to raise out of the water. Firstly was the throne room. It was a large structure with a gaping door. The palace raised further, revealing another, larger layer and then a further one. All in all, the palace looked like a larger marble version of Arsene’s temple.

 

 

Excited, I clambered down the rocks to the beach and made my way to the steps of the palace the led all the way up to the throne room. I took a couple of steps up. My footwear made a loud distinctive clack of which I am very fond. Rather similar to that of heeled shoes on a hard floor. This was followed by Arsene’s heavy and unceremonious clunk with the ground. Although Arsene may seem rather brutish and simple at this stage, I cannot say I am not fond of him at all. Generally speaking, I am not a fan of barbaric, large and ungraceful characters, but Arsene carries a much more foreboding aura that makes him very serious and would allow command a certain level of fear to which I seemed immune.

 

 

As we ascended the steps, I made sure to mould this palace in a useful way. I made sure to add entrances to each side of the steps at each clear segment of the palace, allowing convenient entrance to all areas. If this area was going to be a center of power, I needed it to be efficient. Upon eventually reaching the top of the steps, I was entranced by the throne room. The walls were a glossy dark stone, in stark contrast of the glossy white floor. There were two raised thrones, also made of the white stone that dominated the room. With a smug feeling deep in my heart, I rushed up the steps and took a seat in the commanding throne. I let out a sigh of pure satisfaction. Never before had I needed something so much and never known until I received it. “I cannot describe how wonderful this makes me feel Arsene.” Looking down, Arsene had taken a knee to me. I laughed this off, my trickster was still in there. I gestured over to the second throne. “Like I have always said, we will be equals. Not master and servant.” Arsene seemed to comply, but did not sit in the throne. Perhaps he thought it silly.

 

 

My final thoughts before leaving for today were what to do next time and where to place the palace. I knew it could not stay here and surely I could move it easily enough. After all, I did summon it out of the ground. I decided that next time, our job would be to map out more of this area that we lived in. With a full lay of the land, I could begin to set in motion plans to start the foundations of our own kingdom.

Sorry again for being away for so damn long! And thank you for the birthday wished :) 

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