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Here are some more installments of my series "The Journey." A full set is available on my photostream. This world is changing around us. There are small islands of solid ground in this mire, and great tentacled growths reaching for the sky. What was once a fathomless liquid wasteland seems now even more alien to me than before. But perhaps now we have more chances for survival, no longer limited to this mysterious path. The worms have been growing larger, feasting on the tentacles, which on close inspection appear to be made of some sort of spongy fungi. Many of the worms are twice as big as they used to be. We only had to kill one tonight to feed the two of us. Quane thought she saw something on a passing island, so we decided to sleep on the path again tonight. It was really uncomfortable. My world has ended. That which I treasure most has been ripped from me, and I am dying. I can only relive the awful circumstances that conspired to stab me in the back... Quane and I are walking on the path, with the ever-growing worms accompanying us on our way. I see something big on the horizon, and after a couple hours, it reveals itself as an island- but far bigger than the others we've seen and apparently fixed in place... Quane runs forward, excited to explore this new land, but I hang back... Like the coward that I am! As she runs around on the island, free from the constraining path, a monstrous shape looms out of her sight. I cry out, but it grabs her with its mantis claws in the blink of my eyes and gazes hungrily on her with its eyestalks. Her stick flies from her hands and into the mire nearby, sinking impossibly slowly as I leap over it and give the disgusting beast a blow on the head, but its head is like steel, unlike my hand as its stinging tail pierces my flesh. It must be poisoned... it was a small wound... I sink onto the stones of the path and lay there, helpless, as I watch the creature slither away, with Quane struggling in it's arms. The last thing I see is my own staff sinking into the mud, and then everything winks out of existence... I came to feeling much better after a couple hours, and started to search the island for Quane and that monster. I guess the venom wasn't deadly after all! As I was walking through a field of strange ferns this ladder suddenly fell out of the sky, and this guy dressed like a king with a flaming crown climbed down. He was levitating a few feet off the ground, but before I could ask him who he was he whips out this magic wand and yells something in a weird language. Blue sparks shot out of it and suddenly Quane appeared out of nowhere, dressed in a beautiful purple gown with a golden ring in her hair! I was so shocked and happy that I didn't notice the king start dancing around in the air, or the strange pink triangles that started to rain out of the sky, but I did notice something even stranger. I was starting to... "Wake up!" "Wake up!" "Wake up!" What...? Quane... "Is that you?" "Thank Näuurm you're alive... here, hold out your arm. I'm going to give you another injection." What's going on...who is this? Aaaargghh! "There you go...sorry if that hurt, but you need all three injections to fully counteract the venom. I already gave you the first two while you were unconscious." "Who?..." "Oh, I just found you lying on the Path about a mile away... is your skin supposed to be that pale, or was that just because of your wound?" "Ugh...who are you?" "My name is Djiimi...who are you?" Hope you all enjoy, there will be more. :)
