The Dewdrop Kingdom

Chapter Two

They walked for around another half an hour, this time neither of them spoke, the silence bliss for me, as I was grateful for Kiree noticing the peace I needed. All around stood building, they intrigued me. They were slightly like those on earth. But they were in the shape of rocks. I wondered why they were that shape, hesitating and deciding not to ask not feeling confident enough to ask Kiree the question yet.

Turning a corner I felt a tug on my hand, my head snapped back to Kiree and away from the view, she had one hand outstretched pointing.

"Look at that one there! That's my house." Kiree sounded proud of this fact.

I took note of the surroundings of her house she pointed out. There was no fence. But what looked to be an inside out tree in the front next to the rock shape, Dripping with sap. It seemed as if, if you touched the tree, you would automatically be stuck to it.

"It's pretty." I whispered, my voice hoarse from not speaking for a long time. I cleared my throat.

"It looks like it would have been a fun house to grow up in." I finished with the weak compliment unsure of what to say.

"Yea, it really was. There were all sorts of games to play outside, I can't tell you the number of times that I ended up chasing my younger brother around the outside of the house, neither of us thinking to turn around and go the other way!" Kiree laughed at the memory.

I had no clue how to respond to it, it didn't sound like a fun game to play, just chasing a person around a house. But I wasn't about to offend the only one that had been willing to help me here.

Kiree continued with telling stories of the days she would be outside with her brother.

"-Then we fell right into the mud! It was all over our faces when my brother wasn't looking, I grabbed a piece, throwing the sobbing wet grassy mud straight at his hair! - Oh! we're here." She stopped mid ramble to exclaim.

They turned onto a rougher part of the ground; it was mossy green with what seemed to be slight spikes attached to it. The spikes weren't as sharp as I had first thought them to be, just like the smooth road they had been walking on, they bent springing back into place as soon as you stepped on and off of them.

"Well, that's just a bit weird." I stated. Kiree gave her a strange look noticing that I was talking to myself. Shrugging my shoulders as a response I otherwise ignored her look. Talking out loud to myself wasn't unusual, just normally I was alone in the house, so no one tended to notice.

There were no people at this part. It seemed deserted. I finally felt myself relax slightly at seeing this. I didn't know what I would have one if one of them other than Kiree had come up to me. They all seemed intimidating. I knew that I would have just run. Probably resulting in them being frightened back.

Stopping by an inside out tree, Kiree used her spare hand to encourage me to enter the tree.

"Don't tell me, you want me to try walkin' through the tree?" I sarcastically exclaimed. Kiree shook her head trying not to laugh. I was glad she wasn't offended with the sarcasm.

"We aren't entering into the tree silly." She laughed as he took a step forward-leaning in slightly to the tree. Pulling me towards her we started traveling upward. The same way i came to this world.

They didn't travel far. It went up into the leaves where they entered what looked like a treehouse. "This is the best spot-up here to see the world." Kiree told Clare as she stood there agape from the view.

You could see where she had been standing, there were creatures surrounding it looking perplexed. There was some outside, what I assumed were their houses hanging up clothes or playing with each other. Up here, it was difficult to tell what were houses and what were rocks.