I hid in my shell thereafter. I tried to hold onto Kevin's shell as tightly with my foot as I could. I didn't want to fall off and be separated from my brothers and sister(s).
It felt like hours had passed when we finally stopped moving. At first, I thought the creatures were taking a small break, but after a few minutes, they still didn't move. I slowly poked my head out of my shell.
It was pitch black. I couldn't see anything. Keven was still below me and he had not moved either. I slid down the side of his shell and knocked on his foot. "Psttt..." I whispered to him. "Wah, who's there? Is that you Toast? Have I reborn and ended up at your side?" he asked as I saw his barely visible head poke out of his shell. "No you idiot, I'm Bob. You don't know me and but I know you. I'm your tiny brother that hitched a ride on your shell." I said. "What? Since when were you there?" Kevin asked back. "Since the start of the trip," I replied. He remained silent for a moment as he absorbed the information.
"What should we do now?" I asked as I tried to break the silence. "I don't know about you, but I'm going to stay here. They must have left us here for a reason. I don't want to wander around and get caught. Or worse, attract something that would eat me." Kevin who was scared of what would happen to him slid back into his shell.
I tried hard to look around, but I still couldn't see a thing. After a while I got tired. I think it was about night-time so I slept.
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I woke up later... to darkness. Nothing had changed. I still couldn't hear or see a thing. I think my sense of time was also skewed as I wasn't sure if we were still on the 13th day or 14th day of our lives. After staring into the darkness for a while, I returned to my shell.
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I woke up to movement. Some more time had passed from the last time I left my shell. I think it was now the 14th or 15th day I wasn't sure which day it was anymore. I think the creatures from the day or days before came back. I poked my head out of my shell and I was met by complete darkness. But I wasn't completely barred from any of my senses. I felt a current of air hit me from above with my body. I think they were carrying Kevin and me upwards.
After a few minutes, I saw a single beam of light. It was like a beacon of heaven in the darkness. I remember thinking to myself if we had just died and were ascending into the heavens.
I was wrong. We soon arrived at the light and passed through it. It was the exit! We were inside the tree! Can you believe it? As soon as we exited, I looked around for the rest of my siblings. Ahead of us, I saw Jody's shell being carried by six or so creatures down the tree trunk. 'Thank the heavens.'I thought to myself as I turned to look behind me. Over a few minutes, the three shells of my other siblings popped out of the hole one by one.
A flood a relief showered over me. 'It looks like we all survived.... well at least for that moment.' Ironically, at the moment I had that thought, I felt the creatures below me shake and stop for a moment. I think they sensed something. They began to raise their antennas in the air as if they were searching for something.
Moments later, I felt something cast a large shadow over us. It blacked out our sky. Then suddenly, I felt my world turn upside-down. Something had grabbed onto Kevin's shell. It dragged us upward. Soon, I could see the beast that had gotten a hold of us as it brought closer to its face. It was looked at us. It's face stretched almost wide as the trunk of the tree we were on. Its eyes were huge and slightly bloodshot. It had some sort of fur that ran on top of its head and on parts of its face. It lifted up its lips and revealed a line large yellow teeth. It seemed to be happy about something.
With its free hand, it reached within something it was carrying on its back pulled out something that was rectangular in shape. I felt our bodies move as he dropped us within the rectangular item. My vision became filled with white. I looked around. I was panting as I wasn't sure what had just happened. Were we going to be trapped in a white box forever? Then I looked up from where we entered the box. I watched the beast use its thick arms and five-fingered hands pick up the rest of my siblings as they were placed in our prison of white one by one.
After it placed us inside, it looked above and try to pick up something above us while breaking a branch in the progress. It looks like it didn't find anything. Instead, I felt it bend over and pick up something instead. Through the ceiling, I watched as it placed some leaves in our prison.
'At least it was going to feed us. Maybe it isn't as bad as I thought it was. Maybe it saved us from those six-legged creatures?' I thought. 'I wonder what's going to happen to us from now on...'
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