Minecraft Elements

20 - Nonexistent Nose

Keep in mind that Cole's PoV was one day ahead of Lily's. So by this time, Lily has spent another day in the tree.

Probably mitsakes.

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~ Cole ~

I stared up at the giant tree in front of me. It was very well made, and well sculpted. I didn't really understand why someone would take the time to build a giant tree, but from what I heard, Harold has had a lot of time to do something as big as that.

It was daylight, yet I still couldn't see inside of the treehouse's rooms. They were too high up, and the windows were fences.

I looked around at the roots. They were wooden logs that created arches and twists. There was definitely a good place to hide a secret lever somewhere in them.

I started walking around the base of the tree, examining any nook and cranny that I could find. However, a lever or button must have been very cleverly hidden because I couldn't find anything. I even broke some blocks (I placed them back).

Frowning, I stepped back and looked at the tree. I decided to think about this better.

If I were a man who didn't want to be associated with society, I wouldn't stop by towns for supplies. Which would mean I'd have all the food I'd need. However, I would run out eventually. So I'd have some kind of farm.

As I looked around, I crossed the farm idea out. There was no traces of a crop or animal farm anywhere. Underground farms are likely, but the food takes forever to grow. And with animals, the air is more difficult to breathe, so the meat could turn out bad. A large collection of pistons could open up a roofless farm in the ground, but there were flowers and grass everywhere. Pistons moving would mean the flora gets broken, and there isn't a clearing around big enough for a good farm. Unless he just had a two by two farm of chickens.

I chuckled at my overthinking. The basic idea was that Rapunzel didn't come down. He possibly had a farm on top of the tree; it was big enough.

I didn't know whether or not to call out. I could be just going on some wild chicken chase.

The best option was to build up.

I grabbed some cobblestone out of my inventory. I glanced back at Shoelace, who was just grazing around. It was amazing he wasn't fat.

Pillaring up took less than a minute, but I was still off by six blocks. I carefully made a cobble bridge over, and hopped onto the wooden one in the tree.

I stood straight up and looked at my options. To my left, the bridge went deeper into the tree. To the right was a room that jutted out.

I turned to the left and started walking. The ground was still wooden, but the walls and ceiling were leaves. Eventually, they turned into oak wood as well, and I entered a room. It was circular, with the outer edge of the ground one block up and the outer edge of the ceiling one block down to make it more spherical. There were no decorations, no furniture, no other tunnels except one to the left.

I started to head that way, when something made me stop in my tracks. Or, someone. A girl appeared in the tunnel entrance. She had light brown hair with blue tips in a braid, and deep blue eyes. She wore a long sleeve light blue dress, and sandals. Around her forehead was some sort of simple blue headpiece with a fake-looking gem on it. Pale, and small. Fragile looking (I mean the girl, not the gem). Her facial expression was a mixture of fright and shock.