I stood on that green filled plain which was covered with nothing but grass. What was strange was that there was no feeling of the wind or sign of the sun. Sure, the place was bright and all, but only just as well as it could be without any sign of the sun in the sky.
This place felt extremely different to all the places I had ever known in my lifetime. There were no clouds, no sunlight, no wind. It was basically as though nature did not really exist in such a place.
I looked at the little falcon on my shoulder, whose face did not display any emotion - or at least human emotion, I couldn't read bird expressions you know.
Steeling my resolve, I finally decided I would go to that house first; the house that was made of wood and was near the place we had spawned from.
I walked steadily and cautiously, afraid of anything that might come striking at me without my knowledge. I had heard stories about dungeons, about this specific one too. I had heard how dangerous they were: that a person could be completey hale and hearty one moment and be dead the next, without even knowing what had killed him or her.
There were traps, monsters, beasts and the like everywhere. Whatever danger in the world you could think of, you could find in a dungeon. All these I had heard, but what I had never heard was a dungeon being as serene as this, so peaceful. So empty.
This had me on high alert. I slowly moved to the cabin house that was neatly placed in the ground among the grass and gently knocked on the door three times.
*Knock* *Knock* *Knock*. My knocks went. I waited a few breaths, but no reply. I slowly backed away, afraid of the unknown in this case. Seeing as, in this world, people could die as easily as people could blink their eyes.
The door to the cabin slowly opened and a young man around thirty or so in age came out of that wooden house.
"Yes?" She asked. "Is there a problem?"
"Uh… no. Not exactly. Except, I was wondering if you could tell us where we are. We came in through a portal in a cave." I replied.
"And where was this portal supposed to take you?"
"The Caliagri dungeons." I answered.
"Then you are at your destination." She said. "You must be a noob. Be careful of the monsters in the dungeons. And don't forget to pay the gate toll." She added, before walking back into the cabin and closing the door on us, not even allowing me to ask any further questions.
Now knowing what was in the cabin, and understanding the level of danger involved to be little, I was a little more courageous the next time I knocked on the door.
"Go away! I've told you everything you need to know!" She shouted from within the cabin.
She did not want company, it seemed. These type of loners were best left undisturbed, after all, I didn't know what she could unleash. Kind of like how El was at first, if I thought about it.
I distanced myself from the cabin as I wandered around for a very long time in these plains. The concept of time here was something I could not measure, seeing as the sun was not here to aid in my calculations. Ergo, I had no idea how much time had passed by now. What I did know, however, was that I was famished and tired so the time that had passed was not small.
I sat a little bit to rest. This place was extremely frustrating. I didn't even know if I was going in circles or not. As far as I knew, since I set off to wander this plain, all I had seen was the continuation of the plain. All green and all grass; made me silently wonder how the grass was grown.
The worst part was the lack of any prominent buildings or landmarks that would indicate if or if not I had been somewhere before. I sat with my knees raised and my hands spread atop them as I thought of the next course of action.
I remained in this position for a while, without getting anything good come to me until finally, Eron spoke up.
You are terribly foolish and stupid, you know.
"What? Why would you say that?" I asked. "It's extremely rude."
It can be whatever I want it to be, I don't care. It turns out that you, who I saw so much potential in, was actually a waste of my time.
Your very ever present and consistent flaw is that you think like the humans. Way too much. Even when the answer is right in front of your eyes, you still think.
"Aren't I one of them? Of course I'll think like them." I replied. "But what is it you are trying to tell?"
Figure it out yourself, Smarty.
"Whatever. Go away if you're unwilling to help." I grumbled.
Same as always. A little child, unaware of how to act matured.
Eron said these words as he flew off to go perch on something else, somewhere else. Where he went, I did not bother to know. All I noticed was that he flew off into the distance.
I once again began my trek along these quiet and now, lonesome plains; as I now had no one to talk to, whether for the company or to just pass the time. I had walked for a very long distance before I calmed my anger and started to ponder on the words Eron had spoken before he left.
'He said I thought way too much, and the answer to my question was right in front of me.' I stopped and thought this. I looked around, trying to find anything that was right in front of me.
'There's probably nothing for miles, and if there was, I wouldn't know. So, he must've been talking about something that was closeby. What was closeby at the time?'
'All that was there was me and Eron.' I thought. 'How then could the answer be in front of my eyes? Foolish Wyvern. I don't even know why I am thinking about his words.'
'Oh, gods!' I had walked a little, while still silently pondering Eron's words. They were after all the only thing keeping me busy. This went on for a while until I realised something. 'Me and Eron. Eron! An effing bird could have helped me navigate.'
It was too late now. I had already drove Eron away, and finding him would be extremely stressful.