Exploring

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Anarchy - Cece Duarte

"Yeah bye." I glance back to Tommy who sits on the hill while mumbling to himself. I've been with Tommy everyday for a week so I decided I wanted to explore around our land to collect resources and look for possible places to move to. Don't get me wrong, Logstedshire is nice, but I'm getting bored of it. Plus, Dream said we could go wherever we want as long as it's not near the SMP.

I sigh and turn back towards the hill I was planning on going over. Here we go.

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I shiver at the temperature drop. It's started to snow where I am. Where am I? I don't even know anymore. I've been walking for what seems like forever. It's not helping that the sun is setting. Just as I'm about to give up and turn around, I see smoke rise above the white clouds in the sky. I feel myself smile and start to run towards it.

"Hello?" I turn and see a villager. Looking closer I notice I'm in a village.

"Hi." The villager chuckles at my exhaustion. "Can I have food? And water?" He nods and gets it for me before walking into their home. I drink and eat before fixing Wilbur's coat and continuing my walk. Still cold, but at least I'm not starving.

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The snow finally stops and I notice a small house in the distance. I left the village maybe 5 minutes ago. I walk up to the house cautiously. It's covered in snow and there's a horse stable in front of it. I raise my fist to the door and hesitate for a second before knocking. I don't hear anything for a moment, but I soon recognize sounds as boots walking up. I take a small step back and keep my hand on my bow just incase.

The door opens and I'm greeted with the last person I expected to see out here.

"Techno?"

His long pink hair is tied into a braid and his crown is placed gently on his head. He's wearing a thick blue and white coat or, robe, you could call it.

"Lia? What are you doing here?" I glance around and loosen my grip on my bow.

"Uh, exploring?" I shrug. He sighs and opens the door wider.

"I thought you were Phil. Come in." I walk into his home that's surprisingly cozy. He has chests lined up along the wall and a ladder going upstairs.

"So this is where you've been." I say as I look around.

"Yeah. In retirement, you could say." I nod and open a couple chests. So. Many. Crowns.

"Why..." I don't finish that sentence and Techno laughs at me.

"Never know when you need to make a statement."

"With crowns?" I ask confused.

"They are powerful." He shrugs. I smile and look back to the chest full when a certain crown catches my attention. It's goldish silver and has rubies scattered on it.

I pick it up and feel my smile grow at the sight

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I pick it up and feel my smile grow at the sight. It's beautiful.

"You want it? I'm not into rubies that much." Techno asks softly from behind me.

"How? They're so pretty." I look at it enchanted. "Are you sure I can have it? It seems valuable." I look at him and he nods.

"Of course. Your birthdays coming up right?" no? it's really not.

"Yeah. I don't know how I forgot." I say quietly, rolling my eyes. Please tell me Techno knows when my birthday is. I look back to the crown and put it on my head, it immediately slipping since it's so big.

Techno laughs as I fix it. "Like it?" He asks. I look in a mirror and pose like Techno would, making him laugh again. "I do not look like that!" He denies making me laugh harder.

I laugh with him, "You totally do. And, I love it." I add before he can say otherwise. He brings me upstairs while he brews potions.

"You know, your awfully peaceful for me withering your country up." Techno comments.

"May as well be. I'm friends with Eret and Dream again. Why can't I be friends with you?" I tell him.

"Eret? Why Eret?" He asks.

"He's the king now, apparently. Dream took me there just because and we started to talk again." I say.

"Ah." I laugh at his reply making him turn around. "What?" He furrows his eyebrows.

I laugh again. "No-nothing." I say between breaths. He huffs and crosses his arms. I bite my bottom lip to stop myself from laughing again.

"Your so weird." He shakes his head.

"Says you. Your like a half pig weird catastrophe." I shoot back. He scoffs.

"At least I'm not friending with all of the traitors of L'manberg because they stopped being friends with me." I narrow my eyes at him.

"At least I didn't betray a whole country for fun." He smirks.

"At least I wasn't apart of a government, and made a country." He rolls his eyes and I stop what I'm doing.

"Why don't you like governments?"

"They're boring. And they don't let me have fun and freedom."

"L'manberg literally has and had freedom. So do a lot of countries." I say. He shrugs me off and pulls out his sword, aiming it to the sky.

"Fuck governments!" He shouts. I laugh as he swings it around, pretending to fight people.

"You're so violent!" I laugh.

"Fuck governments!"

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