The Tale of The Ambers

Wondering and Wandering

"I had no idea what to think...

I was face down in the creek, feeling my limbs but not moving them. I opened my eyes, and saw more black. I panicked and looked up, and saw a wonderful thing. Color.

It was strange, dark and light and whatever those strange hues were when I first emerged. I was so enthralled with the color that I didn't notice yet another thing.

Shapes. Everything had a look and something to define it as. Some things looked similar, and others didn't.

And then I tried something. Moving. I had done it before when I looked up, so I decided to try it again. I moved my arm like I tried my neck, and I felt something new. Pain. It was a flash and I was unsure what to feel, but it wasn't good. I realized that not all my body parts move in the same way. I tried to move it as what felt comfortable. First my fingers, then my elbow, and then my shoulder. It was a weird feeling, but I was enamored. I tried moving my other limbs. I had a weird thought, but no, on my lower body I lacked the digits on my upper limbs which I had dubbed "fingers" because it felt right. I tried to push myself upward, and I succeeded in doing so. I then tried moving my legs, and they were very different from my arms. I then stood, for a few seconds, and then fell. A sharp pain throbbed through my forehead, and then I actually decided to look at the water. The current rushed, but the water cleared, and I saw myself. I was a strange and odd looking thing, but I was shocked either way. I was relatively tall, my arms were not thin, but not bulging with muscle, they had some muscle, but they weren't massive. My legs were similar to my arms, proportionately correct. My face wasn't gaunt, but it wasn't chubby either. My eyes were a white ring with an orange ring surrounding a black hole in the center. wearing a one piece garment, which was a orangish-gray, and as I continued to observe myself, I saw my outer "skin" had a gold-orange tint. I had a rock in my forehead, which was oval shaped and also gold orange, with a small being in it. I then felt a pulse emitting through it, and knew that whatever this rock was, it was likely very important to my well being, and I came up with another word for it, my essence. I looked up from there and saw my hair, cascading down my forehead and my back, like the waterfalls I was about to fall into. And then I realized the entire time I had been admiring myself, I had been pushed into a river that was getting more powerful every second, and I was going to fall down many rapids. And then I did.