10- Candles 🌙


A crestent moon.
Grian let go of the bandages, and they fell back over his face. Was he hallucinating? Of course he hadn't slept since the incident.. Going crazy was normal. It happened before.
Grian decided to get over it and remove them. He unwrapped it without paying attention to area.
When he was done it was still there. A light yellow cresent moon. Grian lightly tapped it, it stung but the moon felt like metal. Grian took a deep breath. He picked up the roll of bandages and applied them over where the original was. It handnt fully healed yet.
And no one needs to know.

He walked out of the villager trading center. (Which was where the mirror was.) He didn't know where to go. He went into the Barrel Beast to put away a few things he had in his inventory.

While walking over to the storage area he closed and rubbed his one eye. Once he opened them to walk into the building he was in the black void again. The watery floor and blank area. Were there stars in the sky? He hadnt noticed them before.
"Hello."
Grian turned around to face the blank figure again.
"You again!" Grian yelled.
The figures smile grew a bit. Something about that smile unsettled Grian. It didn't feel natural.
"I want to tell you something. A very important message, sit down. This will take a bit."
"The grounds wet." Grian responded. It shrugged.
"That doesn't matter."
Grian realized that he heard subtle words. The ones the voices said all the time; "Moon", "Grian" "Sleep" "No" They were all coming from the figure. He guessed it may have been the voices, but personified. Grian decided on calling the figure Voice.

Grian sat down, getting his pants wet, he realized that Voice didn't sit down with him.
"Do you know the story of Candles, Grian?" Voice asked, the other voices chanted. "Candles! Grian!" Even though Grian was used to the other voices saying his name, hearing Voice say it made him uncomfortable.
"No." Grian responded.
"Let me tell you." Voice held out his hand and an un-lit candle appeared. He motioned for Grian to grab it. Once Grian reached out and took it, the Candle suddenly lit.

"5 candles were lined up in a pretty row. They all enjoyed each other's company. They would be outside at night to light up the roads, make light for the dark parts of the porch they sat apun. When the sun rose, they went back inside. One day a stubborn and curious candle wanted to stay outside and see the sun. He always wanted to. So while the other candles were going inside, he hid behind the stones that were laying on the porch wooden boards. Once the sun came out, he jumped out to see it. When he realized that the sun made to much heat apun his small flame, he melted. Once the other candles came out at night they saw the curious candles melted wax body, sitting in the grass. They realized they handnt payed attention to the amount of candles inside during the day. Soon, another candle replaced curious candle. They were a selfish candle. They wanted the moon all to themself. So, they encouraged the other candles to go outside during the day. Once they refused, they pushed 2 of them out the window. They melted. The selfish candle went to push out the other too, when the caring candle, who was very sad when curious candle melted, pushed selfish candle out the window and let them melt. Even though curious candle didn't know selfish candle, he hated selfish candle for killing his friends and replacing curious candle. Selfish candle landed, and melted, right next to curious candle. And their dead wax bodies, were forced to lay next to each other for the rest of eternity."

The moment the story ended, Voice smiled wide and Grian was all of a sudden in the observatory. Sitting right in front of 4 melted candles and 2 other candles completely fine. Voices story had appeared in real life. Grian found the 2 candles. Curious candle and selfish candle.
They were laying right next to each other.
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