Dungeons & Disappointment

Chapter 15: Countryside Caravan

Man, I gotta say. Even though I was still very wary of the fact that I was in another world, I couldn't help but admire the beauty of the world around me. We had been traveling for about a day now, and we had left the town in the dust behind us, and now, we were rolling through hilly plains, with the sun absolutely scorching from high up in the sky, and I had resorted to fanning myself as Finana rubbed water on her face. There was the rather heavy sound of cicadas buzzing loudly in the trees and the day grew hotter and hotter, and there was a loud cawing of birds in the sky above us. The storm still raged on in the east, not having moved much, and now that I was finally out of the forest, I saw that it was centered on a large mountain range, and that it seemed to be staying in place the more I watched the thing.

"Hey Finana?"

"Yeah?" She replied, fanning her face from the heat.

"What the hell is that storm way over there?" I said, pointing at the swirling, dark cloud.

"Oh that?" She asked. "Thats the Sunset mountains. They've never had a sunrise in a few hundred years. They've had the clouds over the mountains for a long, long time."

"How so?"

"Well, apparently there's rumors that a Lightning Dragon lives there, but people who go in there says that its just an unnatural storm." She said. "Not too certain about it."

"Well, are there any towns over there?"

"No, not really. The last one that was there was abandoned right after the people realized that the storm just wasn't about to go away any time soon. Once they realized, there were lines of refugees going all different directions."

"Oh shit, okay."

I fell silent as I stared at the storm, and out of the corner of my eye, I saw Finana scoot a little bit closer to me, and her eyes darted to my pocket.

"Uhm, Trevon?"

"Yeah, what's up?"

"Can I see the phone again?"

I shook my head, feeling like I was trying to entertain a little kid, and I unlocked my phone while keeping it hidden from the rest of the convoy. She immediately started flipping through some of the pages, having grown better at handling the phone over the last few days, but this time, she clicked on the camera app, and the moment the camera came up and showed her face, she yelped.

"Holy Umberlee!!!" She said, still keeping a grip on the phone. "Its a mirror!"

"Right, but its even better than that!" I said excited to show off more from my world. "Watch this."

I pressed the button, and the screen flashed white as a picture was taken, and her jaw dropped.

"Its made a painting!" She said, staring at the picture of her shocked face. "H-how is this possible?"

"Its the way the phone works." I said, eyeing the Serpentines to make sure they weren't listening. "And it can take a video too."

"A what?"

"A video, here you wanna see?"

I gently pulled the phone away, turned it to take a video, and I started recording.
"Alright, this is Trevon, uh, I'm currently in a caravan. I'm in another world, and I am with my friend Finana here." I said, then turned the camera towards her. "Say hi, Finana."

"Uhm......hello?"

I stopped recording, and I played the video back for her, and the moment she lay her eyes on it, she began shaking her head in confusion while giving me the biggest wide eyed stare that I had ever seen from her.