LU 216 - Mira 11

*I had just come out of my room within the old castle, hoping I could take a break from all the potion-making I had been doing all week. I was nearly done, I just had to make the potions for the last container, and I would be done... But I needed a break. So I decided that a walk around wouldn't hurt.*

*Much to my dismay however, a.. bird, flew in, and dropped a bone on my head with a 'bonk' sound. It fucking hurt. Why would a bird be carrying around a random bone anyways?! So weird...*

*That's when I picked up the bone that had fallen to the floor, and noticed there was writing chipped into the periosteum of the bone. 'Tea party today.'*

So this was something that had been sent by *Tori...* Ugh. I knew what that meant, now. I had to go to Morpheus, because his 'mate' had been 'revived'... And apparently she wanted to meet Tori's 'friends'. How *wonderful.*

I dreaded it the whole time as I exited the castle, and made my way to Morpheus... Though when I had arrived, I hadn't expected it to be practically walled off from the outside by literal *void.*

Something definitely fucking happened here... Though I suppose I could ask Tori about that, since he wanted to meet *at this location* anyways.

I managed to snake my way through an opening without touching the darkness of the void, and stepped onto the large petals, instinctively backing off as I remembered that the Guardian could have still been lurking around- But after a couple minutes of lingering in place out of fear, I came to the realization that.. *the guardian wasn't present.* Something was *definitely* off about all of this, and I intended to find out what the fuck it was all about.

Shrugging that off just for the moment though, I headed to the center of the 'flower', and called out; "TORIII?! ARE YOU HERE?!?", soon getting a response, telling me to head down into.. basically the belly of the beast. I was reluctant at first, considering the last time I had gone down there, I watched someone *die* and I had gotten cursed, but... For some reason, I felt it was safe, for now.

Thus, managing to make my way down without *dying,* I landed on my feet, wincing as I felt a jolt of pain rush through my body. It was sudden, but I survived the fall- My surprise also appeared to have survived as well, as when I had observed my surroundings, I realized I was surrounded by *sculk.* It lead to me having a lot more questions... *How did this happen? **Why** did it happen? **When?** And **who** did it?*

Too many questions were spiraling around my head at that moment, that I just barely heard Tori calling for me to go deeper into the cave. In which, I did regardless, but after a moment of contemplation. *What if this was just an elaborate trap to kill me? Where is the guardian of this tree?*

Too much.

I shook my head as I neared the part with the core, my eyes widening as I looked down the hole to find that it too, had been reduced to nothing by sculk. Something was *wrong* here. *What if there's a trap down here just waiting for me? Is Tori going to kill me while nobody else is around to stop him?*

I shook my head to rid of the thoughts, quickly teleporting myself to the floor, and steadying myself- Before finding that Tori had been stood just outside of a door... That I hadn't seen here before. I assumed it to be where Tori and his 'mate' had been staying for the time-being.

"Mira, you made it!" Tori exclaimed, opening the door as he welcomed me inside. Clearly he didn't see anything.. *wrong,* and he acted as if everything was *fine,* so... Maybe I was just overreacting. Overthinking. *What if he's going to kill me and then feast on my corpse with his mate? What if he gets his mate to kill me instead?*

"Oh, this is the Enderian you told me about?"

My head turned towards the new voice I heard, one I hadn't recognized- Before my eyes were layed upon another winged person, sitting on the light blue sofa within the... sculk room. Her appearance was.. nice, to say the least- Definitely contrasted against the darkness of the room.

We introduced ourselves, and proceeded to chat kindly to each other- A little mockery of Tori and those that come from the Overworld were also jabbed into the conversation, until Tori broke in, asking if I 'wanted any snacks'...

In response, I just stared at him (more like his forehead), with a deadpanned expression. Knowing him, the only 'snacks' he and his mate would have, would just be bones and rotten flesh. So I declined his offer, before the conversation turned to the kinds of beverages that the Nether had- In which it disgusted me to hear that they used.. *blood* as a common drink. Very grim, I would have to say. But it's not like they could help it much.

Eventually it was just me and.. 'Love' in the room, in which we spoke about how she and Tori were soon to be parents. I congratulated the two of them, saying that I was 'glad' that Tori would be settling down with someone, and to be happy. Truth be told, I was just happy to hear that he would be getting out of my hair.

Tori returned to the room, and then attempted to usher me out, after I asked about what the sculk was all from, in which he responded that Frezz had caused it- It made sense now. But afterwards, he kept trying to get me to leave. Saying that I was 'busy', even though my presence within the room in the first place would have suggested otherwise. But I understood, taking the hint that it was now awkward for the guy, and decided to take my leave. I bid farewell to 'Love' and Tori as I left. However...

As I left Morpheus, I began to wonder to myself... **Why am I so lonely?**