Flowlab Chapter 4
The soldier stood, at his post. He stared down at the valley below, as he had done all his life, ever since the great one had brought him into existence. He saw the beautiful forest, the towering mountains, and the lush hills and flatlands. This was his home, this would remain his home. it had always been, and it will remain to be until the end of time.
Then he heard a noise, another creator, he thought. But as he turned, he saw something that caused a sharp pang of nostalgia to hit him. Something that reminded him of a distant thought, one lost in an abyss of blackness. He rubbed his eyes, and the vision was gone.
He saw a figure on a cliff. They wore tattered clothes with slits and slashes cut across them, which fluttered in the wind. A mass of whirling black hair flew aside to reveal a beautiful face. The soldier couldn’t make out the details, yet something in that face, that beautiful smiling face, seemed familiar to him. The moment he rubbed his eyes, the figure was gone.
This apparition occurred another time the next day, as the first rays of dawn light were creeping above the hill, where the figure stood. Suddenly, he had a strange urge. An urge to see beyond the hills at the edge of the valley. No one had ever gone past those mountains. The population believed that there was nothing there, that the world ended past those mountains. -But the urge was ever present, growing stronger and stronger as the hours past.
The seventh day was different. The woman on the cliffs turned and strode up the mountain, seeming to leap over the other side. Then, the urge was unbearable. The soldier, after thinking for a good number of minutes, set out towards the valley. He sounded the bell of announcement, which called the four Barons down from the palace of Flowlab. He left a short letter on the table near the meeting area in a clear patch of grass and flowers. Then he left, his stride aimed in the opposite direction of everything he knew, everything he cared about.
For the first time in his conscious memory… he Left his Post, he Left his home.