Mistaketale

Chapter 7 Not Paying Your Tab And Talking Flowers Are Mistakes

The only word Lydia could use to describe her date with Conrus is... interesting. But that's all in the past, time to forget that it ever happened.

Lydia went downstairs and started going past the kitchen when she realised that there was something wrong with the cabinet under the sink, well beside the fact that it was way too tall for anyone to be able to use the sink, the door led not to a cabinet but to another room. Lydia had to check this out. She stepped inside.

     "Whaaaat? What even is this place?" It was a rhetorical question, Lydia didn't think even God would have an answer. But Sierra answered 'It's a place.'

The secret room was full of objects that looked like they haven't seen the light of day in a long time, well nothing has since they're underground, but still they haven't been out of this room in a while. Even spaghetti in a photo of Conrus looked like it was going bad, then again maybe it looks like that due to Conrus's amazing cooking skills. It's clear that this room is the place where lost stuff goes to die, how fun.

     The crowning glory of the room was in the back, two doors each the same color as Lydia's switch controllers a lock shaped like a dog kept them firmly shut. Well as firmly shut as a poorly made lock (that would probably fall off soon away) could. Sierra tried to jiggle it in an attempt to make it fall off faster. It didn't work.

"Well this place is fun," Lydia's statement was a good example of verbal irony. Sierra nodded and Lydia asked, "Shall we leave this God forsaken place?" Sierra nodded. So they left, but Lydia knew she would probably come back later, she wanted to see what was behind the locked door. Well time to forget that that ever happened, just like that date.

Lydia walked past where Conrus had stood waiting to battle her and noticed how the temperature changed from freezing cold to room temperature. The scenery started changing too, from snowy forest to damp swamplands. Walking into a room the first thing Lydia noticed was a blue flower.

     Lydia walked over to it ignoring everyone else in the room and touched the petals lightly, "The only thing that gives my life meaning is explaining the echo flower, no one can know."

     Did the flower just speak!?

     The monster standing next to the flower then spoke to himself. "Never trust a flower, that's one of the constants in this world."

     Lydia turned to him, "What's this flower called?"

     "This is an echo flower, it repeats the last thing it heard, over and over," the flower repeated the monsters words. "Neat, huh?"

     "Sure." A little more creepy than "neat", but still kind of... cool? In a way?

Lydia finally acknowledged the other monsters in the room, a lizard-monster-child with no arms and Skans who was at her sentry post, just chilling. Lydia walked up to the monster child first.

"Yo, are you sneaking out to see her too? She's amazing right? I'll see you up ahead!" The monster child then ran off before Lydia could even process what the child said.

Sierra turned to Lydia and said "What I got from that was that he's a fanboy of some mystical being. I hope it's the god of fish." Is this foreshadowing?

Lydia realized she couldn't stall talking to the weirdness that is Skans any longer, so she walked up to her.

"what's up nerd. it is i, skans. skans the skeleton. haha it rhymes."

"Amazing." Lydia couldn't think of any other response to give her.

"you wanna go get some food kiddo?"