In the underground caverns of The Hallow Woods of Elytheria. In a certain cavity in the Middle Layers..
He opened his eyes in deep-darkness!
The darkness in the cavity was palpable and nightmarish! However it had a certain warmth to it that only- He could feel.
Currently! He was lying on the cold ground! His golden gaze staring at the rocky ceiling! Even after an hour his body still remained sprawled on the cold earth!!
Unmoving like a dead body!.
Initially his mind was dizzy and confused!! But now his twin golden stars sparkled with clarity!! Then his face turned perplexed!.
'Hm. Where am I?'
A minute later!! A male voice echoed!! Braking the long silent darkness of the cavity!!
The voice was deep and masculine!!..
"Eh!!.. It's cold. No! It's dark. And warm. This place! It's strange!!"
His bright eyes glimmered with a puzzled light!! He couldn't understand why the cold ground felt warm?
Why the darkness that should've felt all-consuming and sinister like someone's worst nightmare.. why did it felt welcoming instead!
It felt warm and calm!! The ground He was on was indeed cold but the darkness embracing him felt different!!
it was diffused with a warmth that felt soothing and present like a mother cardeling and embracing her newborn infant.
It gave him a quiet, serene and peaceful feeling even in the silence that stretched for as long as the flow of time.
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Sometime later.
He set up! Deciding to look around and find out where he was! He looked to his left but there was nothing to see! Just a rocky wall!!
Though the darkness enshrouded the whole area like a dark vail! He can still see clearly. As someone born in the darkness! Him being able to see clearly in it wasn't anything out of the ordinary!!
Soon his gaze panned- surveying his surrounding!.
The uneven ceiling up above! The ragged walls to the sides! The cold and flat ground He was sitting on!! He could see and feel everything clearly!!
It all felt unnatural to him!! Something new!!
And as someone who just became conscious of his surroundings! He was naturally very curious about all the things around him.
Then suddenly his gaze focused on the right side of the cave wall! There he saw a small opening in the wall like an alcove!!
His eyes sparkled with curiosity. 'What is that?' He observed it for a few minutes! Or maybe more then a few! His mind lost in thoughts.
However soon a sudden thought popped up in his mind; about who he was? Where he was and what he was doing in this small dark cave?
Afterwards as if by some miracle!! – He got his answer!!
"Mmm. This is my birth place!! My place of origin!." He muttered! Now regarding the cave with a strange emotion!!
His gaze gleamed! But he couldn't tell what he felt!! The feeling was complicated! Something his immature mind couldn't compherend!.
He came to know that he was born here a long time ago but his soul had only gained it's 'Ego/Will' not that long ago!.
Perhaps only 2 to 3 hours have passed since he became conscious of his surrounding!.
He supposed if it was indeed true!!
That He was indeed born here directly!! Then it was understandable why this place felt so much more comfortable than anything else.
Though he was more stunned by the realization!!
That he was born in a cave from nothing but magical energy and the essence of the planet itself or maybe be by the amalgamation of different energies.
Regardless it wasn't anything hard from him to accept everything as something normal and natural!.
For him!!..
It never really mattered- How he was born!! Be it by the amalgamation of energies or by some other unknown mysterious or mythical phenomenon!.
It was all the same for him!!
It would not change anything even if he knew how he was born! Atleast it wouldn't for his current immature-self.
Then his thoughts wandered towards who he was or where he was!
He knew He wasn't a Magical Beast! A Spirit or something else entirely! It was a difficult question. He didn't know who He was.
'Let's forget about it.' He shook his head.
For him who 'He' was didn't matter presently! He could always ponder about that sometimes later! The important question was; where he was?
He stood up and stretched his body!!
Afterwards He observed his surroundings with much more attention whereas previously he was just watching and didn't pay much regard towards anything!.
Everything was the same as he had seen earlier.
He turned! His gaze landed on the small alcove for a brief moment then it focused on the cave's exit- which was like a narrow tunnel.
Though it was still two meters tall despite it's width! His golden eyes gleamed! Despite the darkness! He saw the exit clear as day!!
'Hmm. Guess I'll just have to be happy about the exit being tall enough for me to easily walk out of it!'
On comparison- No! There wasn't actually any comparison.
The cave was wide- there was no doubt about that! About 15 meters approximately! But the exit was narrow! Just 120 centimeters!!
"Huh? Wait?" He suddenly noticed.
Rubbing his chin- He muttered out loud. "For what reason did I suddenly thought about — what, who and where I'm.. "
"No! No! No!" He shook his head. "How do I even know the answers to all these things?"
"Weird... so weird.. " His mind spun, working on overdrive.
Trying to think of an answer! Or something! Anything! That could tell him how he knew all these things.
It was like whenever he thought of something! The answer simply came to his mind! As though he always knew it and had just temporarily forgotten it.
It was a strange feeling that he couldn't understand nor could he explain. Leading him to become frustrated for the first time in his life.
In the end! He sighed.
His patience wasn't the best to began with. So when he couldn't think of or get a suitable answer.
He did the best thing he could do. Yep! He gave up.
'There is no use in thinking about it! Not when I'm just born.' He nodded with a proud expression.
For the time being!
He decided to focus on where he was currently! And would think about who and what he was later when he became more certain of exactly where he was.
He shifted his attention towards the small alcove. He curiosity piqued. His legs moved! And with gradual strides he advanced towards the object of his curiosity.
Simply within a few steps! He saw what was in that alcove- it was a pond of light blue liquid.
He asked himself- what the liquid was and immediately got assaulted with a bunch of useless information.
Like dubbing the pond of water which had a high-concentration of magical energy- A low-concentration liquefied magical energy.
Nonetheless! He shook his head and had all the useless information stored in the back of his mind.
He reached the pond in a few seconds. His bright eyes pearcing the darkness- gazed at the smooth surface of the pond aglow with a dim azure luminesce.
"Water!! ... " He mumbled.
His mind like an infant- curious on encountering the mixture of hydrogen and oxygen for the first time!! ...
The pond was reflecting the dim-light glow of the bioluminescent fungi clinging to the rocky walls of the alcove!! Casting low and vague shadows across the water's surface.
'There is Light even in this Darkness!! ... ' His gaze squinted on seeing his own reflection in the mirror-smooth surface of the water!!
He was in the simplest words!! – Amazed!! However out of nowhere he also realized that the creature he was observing was actually 'He' himself!!
His lips curled!! 'So that is who I'm!! ... '
"Fascinating!! ... " He watched himself with mild amazement and amusement simultaneously!! "Hhm! Fascinating indeed!! ... "
He was thoroughly in his birthday suit from top to bottom currently!! Stood at 1.8 meter tall!! ...
His pale-white skin like a porcelain jade!! His eyes bright gold!! Reminiscent of a blazing sun! Radiating with a fierce intensity like two vortexes of flames!! ...
Hair pristine-white free falling down his shoulders the while shimmering softly in the eerie-abyssal-darkness like the ethereal threads weaved from starlight!! ...
"Mm!!.. No doubt!!.. I look good!! ... " He concluded with a nod!! ...
Though He didn't have any sense of beauty presently nor did He actually cared how He looked!! Not even finding his current nakedness weird still the narcissistic thought that 'He looked good!!' ...
Simply came to his mind naturally!! ...
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