The Marionette

The Figure

Time: 10 pm
Location: Calukie's room (Ellesto's lighthouse laboratory)

It was a peaceful
night, a cold breeze flowing through Calukie's curtains as she lays in her bed. As the cold night passed she slowly drifted away to a deep sleep.

Suddenly Calukie wakes up in what looked like a super large clock. She looks around to see clock components almost ten times the size of herself. She is in awe at the change of scenery. She starts to wander around the place looking in all the nooks and crannies for some other interesting things she may find.
After a little wile of exploring Calukie finds a small vent and manages to open it. Inside was a tiny glowing butterfly that looked somewhat like a firefly. It fly's farther into the vent and waiting for Calukie to follow it. She hesitates but willingly follows the buttterfly through the vent

The hallways seem long and endless, quit and empty. But after what seemed like hours the Calukie reaches the end of the vent and was met with the bright sun in her eyes. She puts her hand in front of her eyes to block out the sun and walks into a widely spread wheat field. She looked back at where the vent used to be but it had disappeared like a ghost. Calukie scans the area she found herself in. The weather field looked like it stretched out into infinity, it all looked like a flat surface except when she looked at one direction. In that direction was a small hill and with someone standing at the top of it. Calukie pauses, staring at the figure for a moment. She squinted her eyes to see somewhat better and she realises it was Ellesto.

Calukie starts to walk towards the hill but tripped and fell into a small lake, she pulls herself out the lake and she is yet again transported to another place, but this one seems oddly familiar to Calukie. The new scene was dark with floor made of water, that she was able to walk on, mirrors with beautiful frames that you would usually use for a painting of some sort. And one large mirror standing half inside of the water floor.

Calukie walks towards the mirror and looks at it for a moment. Out of nowhere a shadow like figure appears, with the same silhouette as her, the only thing it had as a face was one eye and an all white mouth. The both of them just awkwardly stare at each other for a couple of seconds.

'Who are you?' Calukie plainly asks
'Im you.' The figure answers
'What? Where am i??' Calukie asks, confused.
'You're in your mind silly, and I am part of your mind.' The figure explains.
'I'll be here to help you if things go... south.' It continues.
'Go south? Why would that happen?' Calukie asked
'Because you are here!' The figure said cheerfully. 'But not to worry my friend, you can stay as long as you're willing to give up being in charge of this body when I say so..' It continued.
'I.. don't think I want to do that..' Calukie spoke hesitantly taking a tiny step back.
'Why? What if something happened that would damage this body gets permanently damaged? It would be all your fault..' It spoke in a type of dramatic tone
'Um..' Calukie mumbles.
'Fine, ill egree, just for both of our safety..' She caved in.
"Splendid!" The figure said happily, as it looked at a non existent watch on its wrist
"Oh! It looks like our time is up now. Goodbye! And remember the fact im your friend!" The figure said waving at Calukie as she transports again within the blink of an eye

Calukie suddenly wakes up with a cold sweat sitting upright in her bed, even her cat was stardelled (spelling? 😭😭) by it.
She continues on to just go about her day.. trying to push the thought of how real her dream felt to the back of her head.