Finally, I finished another chapter. (Not really, I've still got a good 4,500 words waiting to be pictured.)
Almost exactly 1 month after the first.
Chapter 2 got much longer than originally planned, so I've broken it up into 5 parts.
5 parts that I can HOPEFULLY keep steady updates on.
Hopefully, those updates don't take a month either. Due to school, thanksgiving, holiday shopping, and various church retreats, this update was held back. A LOT.
I'm hoping it doesn't take this long every time.
Also the photos for this first part needed A LOT of photo editing. I hope that shows.
Hopefully, my efforts paid off.
Umm... No song recommendation for this one, I've got a few reasons why.
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Bianca was sitting down, feeling truly relaxed for once. She was watching water cascade down the rocky slopes calmly into the lake below. She wasn’t thinking about anything, she simply watched the water swerve between the stems of plants before free-falling into the small pond below. The rocks rose tall above the ground, but many years of erosion cut out small soft waterfalls all over the side. Trees and plants sprouted out all over the open ground, taking advantages of the soft loamy soil. Sunlight reflected off the eternally wet leaves of the plants casting a shiny glow all over the small ponds that spotted the ground. The white waterfalls morphed into softer streams as they got closer to the small lake at the bottom of the hill. It was serene, and Bianca loved this. Here, she didn’t have to worry about tomorrow. Here, she could just relax and waste time away.
Bianca stood up, and breathed deeply. Truly, she left everything behind her. She felt weightless, she didn’t have anything on her mind, just absorbing all the beauty of the scene. As far as she could see, there was no one else anywhere. She didn’t mind, not one bit. Bianca had it on her mind that people don’t do anything but fight over riches anyway.
She walked along the edge of the pond toward the waterfalls. As she walked along, she slowly started walking into the water. The warm water wrapped around her ankles, as she walked closer and closer to the waterfalls. The soft crash of the waterfalls still went along unceasingly, mixing with the soft babbling steam slipping seamlessly into the pond.
Bianca started climbing on the rocks, trying to get to a plateau on top to get a more scenic view. Even though Bianca never even rock climbed before, it seemed to come to her naturally.
She scaled the side of the mountain eagerly, jumping over smaller waterfalls and nimbly hanging on to ledges. High and higher she went, almost touching the sky. When she reached the top, she pulled herself up to see what was on top.
She had a good foothold and she comfortably hung on the side of the cliff. The top of the plateau was rather flat and had barely enough room for her to sit on. On the space where she could have sat, there was a single rock positioned exactly on the middle of the tiny plateau.
A confused look covered Bianca’s face. She stared at the rock for a bit, it seemed out of place, different, than everything else.
She reached out to throw the rock off, but as soon as she touched it, it let out a loud beep.
“Ah!” Bianca let out, stunned. She still had a good grip on the cliff, but was a bit shaken by the surprise. She reached out and touched the rock again, curious. It let out another loud beep, but didn’t stop. Beep, beep, beep! Bianca was a bit worried now.
“What’s going on…?” She whispered to herself. Suddenly, the rock shot out an unrelenting stream of water from its base. Water then started streaming out of the mountain itself, making it even harder for Bianca to keep a grip. Bianca tried to get a grip with her hands so she would stop relying on her foothold to stay up. The endless flow of water streamed down the side of the cliff, loosening her foothold and the water made the granite beneath her hands all but graspable. Water started spraying out with more force than before, relentlessly spraying Bianca in the face.
Still, she kept strong and tried to grip something. She grasped for the rock, but when she grabbed it, it just fell off the top of the little mountain, still beeping ceaselessly. It fell for what seemed like forever before causing a splash in the pond below. After staring at the splash for a few seconds, Bianca turned back around to the rock and tries again desperately to get a grip again. Her heart was beating fast now, she was too high to escape unhurt and too far to get the help she would need.
The water still streamed out of the top of the mountain, making it hard to see. Bianca still clung to the ledge, blocking the blast of water with one hand and fruitlessly trying to hold on with the other.
She urgently thought of what to do, but she couldn’t do anything. All at once, the ledge she depended so much on gave in to the water and her weight.
Bianca quickly grabbed at the next ledge and hung on with all her strength, her legs dangled below her on 130 feet of air. She was now holding on desperately with only her fingers.
The water flowed endlessly under her fingers, pulling her hands down with them. The water streamed past her desperate grabs at the rock, passing her and falling down into the pond, 130 feet below. Her grip moved closer and closer to the edge of the rock, but she didn’t stop her desperate attempts to grab onto the granite.
The water kept flowing down and pushing her grip ever closer to the edge. Her feet were dangling down below her, feebly kicking at the wall. The water kept flowing, but Bianca tried one more time, reaching out.
As far as she reached, she couldn’t get a grip on anything. She was freefalling now. Her mind went blank, watching her fall in slow motion.
She dropped into the pond with a splash, water still tracing her fall down. Her body was underwater, sinking slowly. The rock from the top of the plateau sat at the bottom of the pond, still beeping. Beep...Beep...Beeeeep...
After a few minutes, the beeping stopped. Nature quickly returned to peace, seemingly undisturbed. The streams of water kept flowing, not missing a beat. The plants and flowers returned to reaching for the sky, unaffected.
Even paradise is dangerous.
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Well, I bet your a bit confused right now, I bet you have quite a few questions. A lot of questions actually.
Everything will be explained... trust me.
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