The New World

chapter 2- Exploration

Harply didn't look back at Garnold for a minute, Garnold soon noticed this and looked at her his gaze still soft as he grabbed her hands gently and kneeled down on one one of his knees and asked "What's on your mind marble?", she looked back at him her pupils shrinking slightly from the warmth of his body to her hands and she felt a chill go down her spine before she calms down and spoke "I- wanted to ask if we could explore a little bit?" She said with a low shy tone, she didn't like asking questions that much, not as much as many would. Garnold looked at her slightly nervous expression and smiled softly, "Sure we can marble" his tone only felt softer as he kept speaking to her gently moving his hand to her shoulder when standing up, he spoke again "Ill lead the way, just follow me okay?" His tone still softened more, Harply spoke up again in a low soft tone her voice sounded like that of a whisper "Okay Garnie... you lead the way..". Garnold started walking with his hand on her shoulder walking up to the huge waterfall she had seen when she woke up in this world, to a land or field, of flowers of all colors, roses too. Harply looked astonished at the beauty of it all, all of the flowers and even some mushrooms, she stepped forward nearly in the water before Garnold caught her as she began to fall in, he spoke up quickly "Be careful don't want you to get hurt! That water flows faster than you think it does.." she looked at Garnold's arm and turned to hug him again gripping tightly on to his metal frame as if it was the last thing she would, she's hyper at this all, it's new to her that she gets to hug and feel her best friend instead of know she can't, Garnold gasped a bit not expecting the sudden hug but gently put his arms on her back with a smile the humming of his fan only gotten louder in Harply's ears as she looked up at him innocently before he let go of the hug to a deep sigh.

Garnold opens his chest compartment like she saw when she watched Wallie, Garnold pulls out a small teddy bear plushie with a red bow tie and a brown body and hands it to her, she grabs it gently and yells "Thank you Garnie!", she hugs the plush tightly rubbing her cheek against the ear of it, Garnold spoke with a deep chuckle "you told me you wanted one marble...", she smiles brightly grabbing Garnold's hand her other arm around the plushie she spoke with a jokingly fancy tone "Shall we move of sir Garnie!" She tried but failed to keep a straight face. He chuckled and nodded "Yes we shall miss Harply" he spoke in a fancy tone to match hers, gently squeezing her hand with his, continued to walk around the waterfall until he made it to a rock wall that had moss and flowers growing on its sides, he spoke his hands touching the wall Harply lifts her hand to touch it too "We don't know exactly where this wall goes, we don't want to break it really." Harply looks up at the big wall and steps back to see the top her foot stepping on a sharp rock her thin night slippers not helping, causing her to trip and fall on her back, how she could see the full wall, it was 10x the size of Garnold! She slowly started to sit up rubbing her head "Woah.." she spoke her eyes wide when she looked up the towering wall before remembering something he said, "What did you mean we? Are there others here?". Garnold looked at her and nodded and spoke his tone a bit forward "There are others here, animals and other robots, other people. Though they don't like coming outside anymore, at least not recently." Harply looks at him curiously, and asks him with a polite tone "do they like visitors?"

Garnold looked at her thinking before remembering one of his good friends and speaking "Oh yes! I know one, his name is Starshot, he's really a good guy, I'm sure you could remember him if you saw him, he's a distant memory to you." He grabs her hand and pulls her gently along with him until they walk to a house shaped like a star on the top, the house didn't look very safe to Harply but she didn't question, or didn't have time to ask before Garnold knocked on the door with his knuckle three times, a second passes and a voice emerges "Comingg!" In a tone of a high pitched friendly male as the door opens showing a cat like creature with brown messy fur eye that are wonky and a body language that just says 'I speak what I think', the cat-man Harply only could assume that was Starshot- Starshot's eyes widen and his mouth opens as his body almost immediately yelled "Garnold you had a child!?" Garnold quickly yelled at him back with a almost panicked look on his face his projected eyes shrunk as he raises his arms in the air before yelling "No this is Harply! My Marble! You idiot!" Harply couldn't hold back her laughter at the two 's quick yelling still having ahold of the plush tucked in her shirt, Garnold looked over at her patting her head with his warm padded hand, Starshot looks down at her from his gaze at Garnold, he slightly tilts his head and speaks up with a questioning tone "This is the one who you call Marble, Garn? I imagined her to be less, Human..". At hearing Starshot's words he looked up with a drastically different expression from what he usually has on his projected face, he looked a lot more annoyed than Harply had ever seen him before, he glared at the brown cat man before gently covering Harply's eyes all what was heard by Harply was the sound of a robot fist hitting something as a thump followed it, Harply peeked under his hand between his fingers to see Starshot sat down rolling his eyes with a mark on his face before Garnold said out loud "Don't be mean to my marble you flea covered rat!" Starshot spoke up with a pout in his tone "I was just saying she's not what I thought she was!" Garnold rolled his eyes and took his hands off of Harply's eyes, Starshot stood up rubbing his cheek with his hand and speaking gently "how about you two come in for some tea?"

Starshot leads them inside past the living room of the house that had a brown couch with an oak wood coffee table in front of it, the carpet all until the tiles on the kitchen floor are light brown and the house in general had a strange tea and coffee smell to it such as Starshot himself did. They walk to the kitchen and he pulls out two seats from the table for them so sit on while he walks over to get two cups and tea bags ready, Garnold looks at Harply with a soft tone "How are you liking your new world Marble?" Harply looks up a bit slowly "I love it! It's exactly how I'd imagined  a world..." Garnold's projected face had a smile over his lower visor his eyes looking back at Starshot as he brought over the two cups speaking with a high pitched voice again, like you would hear in those old cartoons "Be careful! It's very hot, we wouldn't want someone to burn themselves!" He yelled the smile only grew wider on the brown cats face as Garnold grabbed his cup and pulled the tea bag out of it setting it on a paper towel beside his cup, Harply saw Garnold do that so she did it herself pulling the tea bag up out of the glass and setting it down on the paper towel that was beside her own cup. Starshot sat down and started speaking again, Harply already knew he was one of those people that somehow have a hundred stories to tell, "Garn how exactly did your marble get here anyway? She isn't from our world?" Garnold thought about how he was going to explain this before speaking with a thinking tone "she wished on a shooting star on her wall and ended up having the wish come true." Starshot's eyes widen as he leans his chin against his hand listening closely before letting out a whispering "woah.." under his breath. Harply takes a big drink of her tea Garnold glances over "Be careful you might choke!" He said in a slightly joking tone looking down at her as she sets her cup down already empty, Garnold's face immediately changes into shock at the fact she chugged the whole thing in a few seconds the fan whirrling sound heightens from the surprise before he awkwardly speaks trying to ignore the fact of his fan "How in the universe did you already drink all of that!?" In a voice that cracked slightly as he spoke, Harply looks up at him and laughs softly speaking "I was thirsty Garnie!" he grabs his glass, lifting it to his mouth before the tea spills over his chest and he remembers he has a projected mouth so he cannot drink it even if he wanted to and he huffs setting the cup down and standing up grabbing Harply and picking her up from under her arms speaking a farewell to Starshot "I'll see you Starshot, I have to show Harply around more," he sets Harply back on her feet and leads her out the door just as her mother would when leaving home closing it behind them.