There was a day when Gluurluu was thrown into the maze. Since the maze was outside, Gluurluu started to think were she would tuck herself in at the night if the maze would continue far. Air was cool and fresh. If it had been warm enough, Gluurluu thought that she could have slept in any bush. However, cold night was to be expected the moment she started walking forward.
The sun reached its rays into the maze and rich soil painted paths between tall, green bushes. Gluurluu heard a a chorus of handsome battle cries from afar. She spent a few moments trying to hid her poison bottles somewhere where she could still reach them quickly if something tried to kill her. Inside her boot the bottles hurt her feet and she had no bra on, so in the end she settled with putting them inside one of her socks. She started to carry the sock inside her tunic, ready to drop the bottles inside her boot if some unfriendly group of people would catch her and check her for weapons.
In the evening Gluurluu tried to sleep in a messy nest she found inside one of the tall bushes. The nest was on the ground, surrounded by green leaves from all directions and made from soft straws for someone Gluurluu’s size. Gluurluu spent two hours in the nest, sleeping half of the time, until a mother bear kicked her out when it came back from who knows where in the middle of the night.
Next they came and went, bringing the next evening. Gluurluu had found out that the bushes fit many nests in them. She stopped walking at afternoon after finding a promising nest that was empty. She carried heaps of straws from the nest and built her own bed in one of the other bushes. After that Gluurluu went to get feathers from the bird nests.
Next night she slept in a warm place she had done for herself.
In the morning she woke up to find that the leaves around her had grown a little closer. As she walked forward in the maze, she started to find nests that were so tightly imprisoned by the bushes that they had been broken by the pressure of the leaves. It was good, because those nest were abandonded. It meant that Gluurluu could use them instead of stealing building materials from animals and possibly angering them in the process.
Later Gluurluu came across something that made her change her course in an intersection. Until now she had always chosen the second path when she had come to an intersection, but now there lay a sharp arrow in the middle of the path. An arrow from a quiver of a bowman.
Had Gluurluu come close to the group of armed men she had heard earlier? Was this the way they had gone? Someone of them must have dropped the arrow on accident. And if that was the case, it was just how Gluurluu had predicted: they had weapons.
Gluurluu would have hoped that to be the last time she needed to change her direction, but it wasn’t. After she had chosen the first path instead of the second as she usually did, she continued her walk through the maze. However, on the next day there was another arrow in an intersection. This arrow pointed towards the first path, so it was easier for Gluurluu to dodge it this time.
“You are back, Jimley! So, where is she? Why isn’t she here yet?”
“She hasn’t followed our arrows! She is going the wrong way, towards the dead end!”
“Maybe she didn’t understand what to do!”
“But how can she understand if we don’t go there ourselves?”
“Ugh! Don’t tell me that this means we have to there for her? It’s like doing work again!”
“I thought that she would come here on her own if we - ”
“Well, it seems like there is no other way, right?”
Four men with bows stood up and headed inside the maze to help the girl find her way out of it.
// As you may have guessed, my horoscope is sagittarius. :3 //