"Look as the searing hot water. Let's take a swim, shall we?" I climb to my feet on the boat as the figure, having been sitting beside me a while, turns their head to look at me. I place one foot onto the edge of the boat as people begin screaming. I leap off a little but go no where. I stare down at the bubbling water and then turn my head far to the right. I notice the cloaked figure holding me by the collar and my scowl fades. "oh it's just you. Don't wanna get wet?"
"That's not water but poison. Do you see why the boat is made of such a strange material and why there's a popular barrier up? If you jump in there then you will die. Unless you are a Doku or..."
"I'm not a Doku or anything. I am darkness. But if you don't want to go into the water..."
"You will die if you jump in."
"So?" The figure swings me back onto the boat and takes a seat. I roll through the center of the boat, slightly bumping a few people, before stopping in a hand stand. With my right hand I touch my index finger to my chin and with the other I hold myself up. "Your concern to preserve my life is baffling." The figure does not respond. By the time we make it ashore I notice how every villager is asleep. "Why are they sleeping?"
"They aren't sleeping... they're meditating."
"Huh? That's a new word for sleeping?" The figure turns its head to look at me before turning back around and walking. I follow with a smile tugging at the corners of my mouth before suddenly stopping. The figure seemed to have disappeared from before me. Where did they go? I look around almost like a blind man looking for them. Since there isn't a single ounce of darkness or evil in the figure it shouldn't be this hard. Near to all here have sinned far more than the figure. Finally my eyes settle on the large body of water that the figure had warned me not to trudge. I watch as the figure seems to brave the water, walking atop it like there was an invisible path beneath them, a barrier radiating dark energies. That's why I couldn't find them. Is the barrier a form of protection? I watch the figures cloak begin to burn away slowly. This poison stuff must be very powerful. What would the figure brave the waters for? I scan the poisonous bay to see a boat beginning to sink. No one was on it from what I could see though. Wait... my eyes focus and I can see a tiny person clinging to the hull of the boat. The figure is going to try and save the person? But the figure is moving far too slowly. The boat will sink by then. Then the figure stops and raises its arms into the sky. The figure, even from where I am onshore, has beautiful porcelain skin. The sky begins to darken as the boat sinks farther and farther down. I can feel the darkness creeping into the area and its making me a lot stronger than I currently am. I limp closer to the water when the figure yells, "Stay back!" I do as the figure says and just watch them, the darkness shrouding everything. After the boat becomes dangerously close to going under, the poison is turned to ice in a flash. I was amazed at this. How was that possible? No one else could see through the darkness from what I could tell. Everyone was screaming and crying. I watch the figure disperse their barrier and take off running atop the ice. I can see the figure slipping and guess that power they used to float atop the water was no longer in use. The tiny person seems to fall to the ice as the figure touches them gently on the shoulder. Frightened, the tiny person clings to the figure. Slowly they make their way to shore. The darkness creeps away as the water returns to the state it had been in.
After many 'heart felt thanks' I decide we should leave. "You are always quick to leave. Don't you wish to explore more here?"
"I have to find her so there is no time for sight seeing."
"Her? How will you know when you find her?"
"I can feel her evil even from here. I'll know."
"So you seek an evil being?"
"Yes." I reply bluntly. I already told the figure I was darkness. Then again, dark and evil are two different things in my book. "What did you do to the poison before?" For a moment everything is quiet on the private boat we were provided as thanks. But soon the figure speaks.
"I used magic. In order for certain tricks, I require darkness. I would go deeper into it but it is very confusing; more so for you than anyone I know." I just stare at the figure as they stare blankly forward. Who is this figure? What is this figure? So very interesting.
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