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Prism Prison

The prince opened his eyes to find a white sky hovering above him. On the periphery of his eye-line he could see some trees sitting motionless in the stale air. The prince raised himself on his elbows & looked around. He was lying in a forest devoid of color, all the foliage was just endless shades of gray. A small camp with some supplies had been erected behind him. He quickly examined it & began exploring the surrounding area.

Inside the tree line, the forest felt strange, almost manufactured. There didnt seem to be a breeze blowing either, the trees stood completely motionless in the stale air. Even the forest floor felt unlike any earth he had ever treaded on before, it felt almost synthetic, like walking on grass made of fabric. The prince picked up a fallen leaf & examined it. All of its features were sharp & angular, it didnt appear to have a soft or rounded edge on any part of it. The prince continued to analyze the strange foliage until a faint rustling sound coming from behind him seized his attention.

The prince whirled around to spy a figure stealthily dashing through the brush; he only had eyes on him for a moment before he disappeared. He stood perfectly still to see if he could detect the new location of the figure, but as soon he became inert something jumped on his back & wrapped its limbs around him. The prince struggled to get free. The hands of the figure were deathly pale and quickly trying to remove his belt. Perplexed at first, it took the prince a moment to realize the figure was going for his sword hilt, but just before his assailant could extricate it from his utility belt, the prince grabbed the hilt, deploying the blade & just like that his attacker was gone. The mere presence of the fully formed sword seemed to have scared him off. Shaken, the prince decided to ( carefully ) explore the forest further.

The forest stretched for miles in every direction, constantly the prince felt as though he was lost & walking in circles, everything appeared so similar and symmetrical. The eerie calm permeated every aspect of the woods, even the sounds of the forest seemed like a loop being played over & over. The only exception was a faint crack off in the distance at one point. There was no evidence that time even seemed to pass in this strange world. The forest existed in a perpetual state of twilight.

After what was probably hours, the prince broke the tree line & found himself gazing out onto an endless field of gray grass, but before he could process this new wrinkle, his thoughts were abruptly interrupted by a blunt force to the back of his head. The prince crumpled forward. Struggling to keep his eyes open ( due to the blistering pain erupting behind them ) he turned to see his former assailant again, finally seeing his face the prince was shocked to discover it was a familiar one. Staring back at him ( minus a left eye ) was the dark rider! He looked even worse than the prince felt, in addition to his missing eye, one of his hands had been severely mangled, and he stood caddywumpus due to his blown out kneecap. He looked enraged & was carrying a large ( now bloody ) broken branch.

They were still for a moment, just staring at each other... the dark mans nostrils flared & his good eye bulged, then he burst toward the fallen prince. Using every ounce of his remaining energy he grabbed his hilt unleashing the blade & deftly parried his advance. Spinning around the prince kicked out his adversarys good leg. The dark man fell to the ground & the prince was on top of him in an instant, giving his foe only enough time to stifle the princes descending blade with the branch. Surprisingly the branch held the pressing sword blade in place. The two stared into to each others eye(s) with intense disdain, both shaking with rage & exertion. A sudden jolt & the blade bisected the branch and fell like a guillotine severing the dark stalker from his cyclopean head.

Exhausted, the prince picked himself up & began walking through the grass.

The prince was so tired that he was walking with his head down for several minutes when something made contact with his head again & he fell onto his backside. He looked up & saw nothing. Slowly he reached his hand out and felt resistance. It was like there was an invisible sheet of glass preventing him from moving further. He felt around to see if there was an end, but it seemed to go on forever. Thats when it struck him, this wasnt a forrest, it was an elaborate cage. All hope seemed lost until the prince noticed the transparent barrier ripple for an instant. He craned his head closer to it, just when he got right up to it something shot out & he fell back on his backside. He looked up & saw the head of a masked girl looking down at him.

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Dream Temple in the Shadow Glade There had been reports coming in non-stop for the last fort night about strange incidents occurring in Zeta Glade Colony ( colloquially known as the Shadow Glade ( due mostly to the surrounding floras eerie atmosphere ) ) so the king set out to investigate. It seemed like there hadnt been a single month since it opened that the shadow glade hadnt submitted some strange report about unexplainable phenomena, but these recent reports seemed different. First off, sightings had increased to a point where if a day passed where there wasn't odd news from zeta, that was odd. The reports were all over the place, but the one common trait was people kept seeing things whose presence should be impossible. Normally the king wouldnt take care of such matters himself, but with the recent expansion expeditions, the kingdom was rather short on manpower. The king brought along his must trusted warrior ( a hammer wielding knight named Sivart ( the two had fought countless battles together, but they had somewhat grown apart in recent days & the king hoped to stir their friendship with this road trip ) ) . They made it to zeta just after sundown. The pair had a good meal & a short sleep, then they were up & on the trail at dawn. The king & his knight crossed the zeta fields into the spectral woods that surrounded the colony. They encountered some minor combatants, but dispatched them with ease. After trudging through the woods for a couple hours they came to what the colonists believed to be the source of all the peculiar happenings, the DREAM TEMPLE. A couple of these sort of temples had been discovered around the greater world, but none was as large or as remote as this one. It was trapezoidal in shape & an empty moat surrounded it. The trees were so thick that almost no light shown on the temple grounds ( which just added to the ominous ambiance ). They cautiously crossed the bridge & entered the temple. Inside a booming voice filled the entrance hall with an indecipherable language. They looked at each other perplexed & then a more recognizable dialect came from the other side of the hall: I left her in your stead, but you were far too cavalier. Now i have come to reclaim her! The king turned to see the cloaked man ( that had bestowed the queen on him all those years ago ) with the queen trapped in his arms/cloak. The king ran at the cloaked figure without hesitation. The cloaked man flung the queen at the king, but he was able to catch & stabilize her without halting his speed & then fluidly sank his blade into the cloaked man. The blade pierced the cloak and the man inside disintegrated. The king leapt back to his wife ( she wasnt hurt, but was visibly shaken ( a rarity ) ). She looked up at him & whispered: my king. my hero... She never talked like this ( but sometimes he wished she did ) . Normally she was so strong, but right now she was acting like a scared little girl. He held her face in his hands and looked into her eyes. They were the eyes he had always seen, but this wasnt his queen, and the king asked in a calm voice / dripping with suspicion /: Who are you? The queen & the room melted away. The king awoke on the floor, his immortal knight asleep next to him. They were both still in the entry way. It was as if they fell asleep the second they stepped into the temple. The king placed his hand on the knights shoulder to wake him, but as soon as he made contact, the king was transported to another version of the same room. Closest to him was an exotically garbed man, lying dead on the ground with his head caved in, a bloody kirpan on the ground next to him. Just a few feet from the body was a ghostly doppelgänger of the king, lying ( also deceased ) on the ground in a pool of blood. It was then the king noticed the faint sound of crying coming from behind him, he slowly turned to see a man & woman holding each other in the corner. The man looked up. It was his immortal knight & the person who was crying was his queen. The knight looked at him / puzzled / & just like that, they both woke up once more in the temples entryway. The two got up & composed themselves. For a moment they stood & stared at each other. Trying desperately to process all the things that each of them had just witnessed. Then (without a word ) they did what most men do when they learn horrible truths ( bury it deep inside and go about your business like nothing ever happened ) . There was something strange going on in this temple & the king aimed to figure it out. They crossed the long entryway & found a chamber on the other side. Inside was a massive cavaedium. It appeared as though the outside world had crept into the temple & began growing. The foliage was as thick inside as it was out. Off in the distance something stirred the grounds & a flock of birds flew out the square sky hole in the ceiling that subtly illuminated the landscape. The pair crept through the brush until they saw signs of movement. The two crouched down & watched as a massive horse god sauntered through the atrium. Its body was all black & it seemed to be covered in an organic armor that grew out of its skin. The only color it had were rainbow markings that covered its face & extended through its vibrissa. It's most ominous characteristic was a giant crystal jutting out of its back. A light pulsed inside the crystal. There was something wholly unnatural about it, even the air seemed to distort around it. The king speculated that the crystal was the source of the horse gods power. The king and his knight quickly formulated a plan and set it into action. Leaping from behind the bush the king began to flail around in an attempt to garner the horses attention. The horses pale blue eyes focused and narrowed on the king & slowly it began trotting in his direction. While this was happening the knight stealthily scaled the horses backside ( by grabbing her tail and climbing it like a rope ) . The horse stopped just a few feet in front of the king & the pulse became a glow. The king could feel the room start to slip away, but just before he fell back into the dream world, the knight brought his brutal hammer down on the crystal. A terrifying shriek came from the horse god as it collapsed to the ground. The hammer strike had cracked the crystal, black smoke & pink ooze came spewing out. Suddenly the knight was at the kings side & they decided to make a hasty retreat ( the crack in the crystal was spreading rapidly & neither of them wanted to stick around to see what happened when it broke ). Just as the two crossed the bridge the sound of an explosion reached their ears. The two turned to see a beam of black light shooting out of the opening in the ceiling & then the whole structure imploded on itself. The two watched the temple collapse for a moment, then turned & silently started the trip home. They didnt bother to tell the colony about what happened ( theyd get the gist ) . The king still couldnt wrap his head around what he had seen in the knights dream & it was clear he didnt want to talk about it, so they traveled the whole way back in quiet contemplation. When the two returned to the city they went their separate ways without a word. The king was so tired he slept for 12 straight hours. When he woke he felt compelled to clear the air with his knight, but when he reached the barracks another knight told him that Sivart had left about an hour ago with no indication of where he was going or when he would be returning. The king was distraught, he hated things unresolved. The king waited for years for his favorite immortal knight to come home, but he never did. Every once in a while he would get an update on the hammers location, but he never seemed to be able to make it back to continuum city. The two never saw each other alive again.

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Girl! 5.10.1094 I was out in the dunes late last nite, and i ran into my twin brother. He was in his citizen form as usual, and he had something to show me. We proceed to a nearby valley. He tells me to be very quiet, and to make my appearance less conspicuous, so i shrink into my citizen form as well. We knelt behind a rock face and he points out a figure off in the distance. It was a Girl!, brother said that a couple weeks ago he was traipsing through the dessert when a diamond arose from the sand and then shattered. All that remained after the shards had melted back into the sand was the Girl! He remarked on her beauty and began pursuing her. After following her to a small watering hole that he frequents, a conversation was struck up with her. It turned out she is from our families homeland in the north, and she made vague allusions to knowing the ways of our tribe. The Girl! seemed to be conducting some sort of research. Constantly taking notes and measurements. She had some sort of charting device in her left hand and a depth pole in her right. I was unsure what to make of any of this, but he was right about one thing. She was beautiful. 06.12.1094 An old citizen familiar invited me to a soiree at his palace on the outskirts of the city. I arrive late and alone as per normal. When I enter the premises i immediately notice my twin brother in the corner entangled with a new female that i have never laid eyes on before. I walk around and survey the event. Its the usual crowd of well-meaning citizens. A familiar of brothers comes up and begins conversing with me. After a time, he halts our dialogue and alerts me that some female is scoping me hard. He points her out and I recognize her as the Girl! from the dunes. Several times throughout the night he stops our conversation to reference the Girl!s gaze, and finally inquires about what he perceives as a lack of interest on my part. I explain that my twin has already laid claim on her. He seems incredulous and points to my twin still entangled in the corner, and mentions that it looks like he has staked a new claim. 07.29.1094 I have just returned from my annual trip to the south to see my main familiar. Brother requests my presence, he knows of my trip and is interested in hearing of my exploits. I meet him at his normal watering hole. While discussing the particulars of my journey our conversation is interrupted. A female is remarking on the emblem emblazoned on my outerwear. I turn to find that it once again is the Girl! from the dunes. We converse for a short period ( it seems she is familiar with the southern clan i acquired the garb from ), and then both of us are on our way. The conversation was short, but intriguing, I am starting see why brother was interested in this female. 09.21.1094 As of late I have been feeling a restless energy inside me. It is becoming harder and harder to maintain this charade of interloping with the citizenry. I now spend most nights traversing the dunes in grandform. It is oft the only time i feel life inside my body-mass anymore. This place is so enchanting when it is not choked by citizens. I am almost back to my domicile when someone speeds by me on a sandbike humming an enchanting melody. As they pass, the rider turns to look in my direction. It is the Girl! She sees me, but i do not perceive any recognition on her face. This is not surprising. It is rare that a normal citizen can associate a grandshifters native form with its citizen guise. I see that she has just left one of her work sites. I survey the site and find a piece of paper with a drawing of a sleeping girl and a poem integrated together as one. The words and images are appealing so i decide to keep it. As i begin the trek back home, the melody she was humming starts repeating inside my mind. 10.5.1094 The melody is still trapped in my mind. I have begun using my wave constructors to produce a form based around the melody. It seems to help, but still the notes haunt me. I employ a singer to add the lyrics of the poem to the wave form. 10.27.1094 A familiar of a familiar is celebrating the date of their conception and i am socially obligated to attend. I am in no mood for this, but brother insists i accompany him. When we arrive at the diversion station there is a large group already in the process of merriment. I have a hard time working myself into a similar fervor. To my surprise i find the Girl! here as well. She has seamlessly entrenched herself in this group of familiars. I marvel at her ability to blend so effortlessly with the citizenry, an ability i cannot seem to emulate. My twin is feeling ill ( or so he says ), he has scorned one of the females in attendance recently, and the tension between them is palpable. He excuses himself, and leaves me to my own devices. This sort of thing was routine with brother and oft irks me, but tonight it does not seem to have the same effect. I eventually work my way into a conversation with the Girl! and some of her familiars. During a certain story she preceded to press herself up against me while pantomiming a situation, she looked into my eyes for a moment ( i have not been able to get this image out of my mind ). The more i am around the Girl!, the more intoxicating she seems to become. Her smile and laugh are pure infection. Later the night comes to an end, and since brother stranded me here (and i cannot don my grandform around the citizens), i accept a conveyance from the Girl! and her familiars. The ride home is full of revelry, and i am left at my doorstep still swimming in the euphoria of the nite. It has been a great while since i have felt these sort of feeling for anyone, it is terrifying and exhilarating simultaneously. 01.02.1095 The wave form based on the Girl!s melody is complete. I take it to the local wave market. The form merchant agrees to sell my wave. I give him her drawing to use as the visage. 01.10.1095 It is late at nite, and i am traversing the dunes again. Recently i have been compelled to take my strolls in my citizen form. As i pass by an oasis, i notice that someone is sitting underneath the palm by the water. Its the Girl! She is sipping on a stim-stick and listening to her wave player. It is unlikely, but i imagine she is listening to my wave form. The serene moment is abruptly ended when the ground suddenly begins to quake. The Girl! is broken from her aural trance and spies me in the distance, but her gaze quickly shifts to the rippling body of water in front of her. The pool explodes as a colossal sand snake head shoots out the water with its eye fixed on the Girl! It is hard to remember the series of events after that. The next thing i knew, i had expanded into my grandform and i was beating the life out of the serpent. It was massive and its strength was unbelievable, but it had the mind of a beast, and despite all my other shortcomings, my mind is sharp. Every time it lunged at me, i would stealthily evade it, getting in small jabs where i could. After what could have been a single minute or 20 the sand snake retreats. I collapsed from exhaustion and without knowing, revert to my citizen form. I laid on the ground for a minute. I close my eyes for what felt like a second but could have been hours. When I opened my eyes the 2nd moon was starting to set and the 1st sun beginning to rise. Finally I raised myself up on my elbows. The Girl! is staring at me from across the pool. She had seen my other form.

So i ran. … because

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