I'm standing at the edge and looking down.
It's a strange rock formation with multiple cliffs on different levels.
Like a diving board.
Below us,
an endless ocean that took over the horizon.
No one dared to jump,
but we looked on to the water.
Everyone kept climbing higher and higher,
but eventually stayed sitting on the rock rather then diving off.
Why?
It was nighttime, the only light we had was the new moon and
the stars that were beautifully reflected across the surface of the ocean.
They seemed to be in the water as it glowed from underwater.
I was with my family.
Or people who were meant to be my family?
I never saw their faces,
I only saw my own.
They whispered to me,
each in a hushed voice,
jump
it's not that far down
it'll be like floating down to a cloud
it'll be nice and soft at the bottom.
We were at the very top.
There were no clouds,
but if there were, we would be above them.
I reached up,
thinking I could catch the moon,
but I only caught the stars.
I held it close.
There,
someone said to me,
drop the star and
follow it down.
I stretched out my hand over the edge and
turned it over,
dropping the star down.
A few seconds after,
I had jumped over the edge.
The star seemed to have waited for me,
for it was beside me as I fell.
I grabbed the star and
saw the ever approaching surface,
glisten with the stars.
I never hit the surface,
I fell through.
It was warm,
I could see the stars at the bottom and
then,
a shadow covered them.
I realized why no one had jumped off the edge.
I saw something heading towards me.
It was getting bigger and
bigger at a fast rate.
When it was close enough,
I realized it was a shark.
Not just any shark,
a great white,
Megalodon.
I thought I felt small just by looking at the Megalodon.
He could never compare to the ocean.
To him,
he must've thought he,
a big shark,
belonged to this big body of water.
I was eye to eye with him.
Was I going to die?
Or would I just die slowly since he would just swallow me whole?
He used his fin to push me alongside him,
down to the bottom.
It took a long time,
but once we got there,
I realized the stars had been moving.
They made sounds.
Quiet sigh and oohs.
Waa and hooo.
They sounded like fairies.
That's when it hit me.
They were fairies.
I could see their small wings and tiny bodies.
Why was I brought here?
Why are they here?
Why doesn't anyone else jump?
