I woke a few hours later on the very edge of the Lake, I was a bit dazed my head is pounding and I had no clue actually came out. The skies are purplish blue as the sun showed its last light before setting, as I looked around I could see the clouds darkening above my head. I would have to find a place to shelter myself from the oncoming storm, I had been in enough water that day and didn’t want to be soaked again for a very long time. I quickly found a little high ground, wasn’t very high just about 20 feet above where I was at the lake but it was high enough for me to spot a cloud of smoke in the distance. I figured it had to be village or at least someplace I can find shelter for the night.
The cloud of smoke that looked as if it is coming from about 2 miles downwind. Which I estimated should only take a couple minutes to do at my newfound speed. So I took a deep breath and look straightforward that I was gone, I moved out of the Valley where the Lake was in an instant. Then I moved into a forest jumping from branch to branch moving like the wind across the branches not even leaving the after shot off myself. After a few minutes I stopped to take a break, I must’ve gone more than 2 miles by now I thought to myself. There is no way could be much further I should at least be seen the building by now if not be able to smell the smoke. I looked up and appeared on the top of one of the taller trees around me, I need to see how much further it was.
There is something odd seeing that I still saw the smoke, but it looked exactly the same distance as it was when I left. I turned around and looked around trying to spot the Lake that came out in. Took me a little while but I did find it and just as I thought the Lake was a lot further back than 2 miles. I figured the fire was simply just a lot larger than I’d thought it was originally, so it must be further than I had assumed. And put it out of my mind and took a little break to relax for a little while before I would get back to moving towards the smoke. I estimated I had a half an hour before the sun would set, and maybe 10 minutes away from the smoke according to my new estimates. I set out again moving a little bit faster than I had before, and actually maintained it for a lot longer.
At this time when I stopped the smoke look much closer, but still very strange I must’ve gone seven or 8 miles and should be there by now. Then I took another look at the cloud of smoke, realizing that the cloud didn’t get slightly bigger it got huge. It was so big at this point that I was standing in its shadow and I had been for quite some time. I was still a ways off but I knew at this point I wasn’t very far off I could start to see where the smoke was coming from. I took my final deep breath of my break and headed off right for the smoke.
About a minute later and almost 2 miles later I was there, I stopped and looked around at everything around me and was completely shocked. There in front of me was a gigantic machine hovering just above the treetops. I never seen anything like this in my entire life not even in my father’s lab’s. I looked around it and inspected to see if I could find anything coming from it down to the forest floor but as far as I could see there was nothing. I’ve quickly ran up one of the trees then jumping off the tree as high as they could to get a better look from above and figure out just how big it was. As a part of me wouldn’t believe how simply gigantic it was, must’ve been over 10 miles long in every direction it seemed to just keep going and going. As I fell back towards the forest I realized that it wasn’t just the machine was an entire city.
I ran up the tree once again and this time I headed for the city I was going to find out what kind of people lived on the. I pull myself up onto the edge of the city, the city was completely surrounded by a wall. I looked around looking for a way and I soon found it in the form of the small house. And as I walked up to it, out came a strangely dressed man, he was about 7 feet tall and he looked as if he was wearing a fully armored suit. I could see that the suit was different from anything I’d ever seen, it look like one solid piece of metal bent around his entire body to fit him like a glove. But he was walking and moving with such ease that it just didn’t seem possible, I couldn’t believe that it was metal it had to be something else but I would soon find out.
He approached me and began to speak with a deep boom of a voice. “Hello visitor, my name is Adam I am the gatekeeper to forge city, where we make any weapon any shield and anything else you can think of for pricing of course.” He said with a smile, then bowed to greet me. He then turn and gestured for me to follow him back to the small building that he came out of. He walked into the small building and opened the window in front of me, he pulled out on writing pad and some paper and started writing something on it. I was about to ask what he was writing down, but he looked up at me with a smile began to speak. “I’m going to need your name, and what you would like us to build for you. Then I’m going to need what you have to trade with us or what you’re willing to trade for our services.” He smiled and looked at me waiting for an answer ready to write everything I said down. “Well to be perfectly honest with you, I’m not here to have anything built. I was actually just looking for a place to spend the night out of the oncoming storm. Is there any way that would be possible?” I responded to him with a hopeful smile.
He looked at me completely confuse but still smiling. “Well yes, that is possible though it would be the first time anyone has asked to stay here. Let me see what you have to trade, and also any skills that you may have that are unique to you or you may think is useful in the village is also acceptable seeing that you be staying here instead of getting anything in return.”
I Didn’t have very much with me except for a few things that I brought with me from the city, I had planned on working and earning some money to buy supplies. But looking at the city I didn’t think there was anything I could do to earn money here. Nevertheless I would try maybe my newfound skills could be of use here. I looked over at him as he waited eagerly for me to show him what I could do. “Well I’m not exactly sure if this skill would be useful here, but I will show it to you anyway. Now keep your eyes on me and don’t blink.” I took a deep breath, and as I exhaled I vanished.
