The Underground: Part 1
The only way to tell time underground is by the shouting of the humans guarding each exit. They would yell or ring a really loud bell that would sometimes shake the walls, almost causing a cave in. Personnally I'm a morning person anyway, so I'm up way before they ring the bell. Icarus and I would wonder around the caves early in the morning, being as quite as we can before the elders woke up. "Hurry up Pan. The sun should be rising any minute." Pan was my nickname, it was easier than saying Pandora all the time. "I'm coming." Usually you couldn't see the sun underground, but while exploring the caves one morning, me and Icarus found an opening in the cave where no humans were guarding. From there we could see the sun rising above the mountians, but we would never leave. Icarus wants to and so do I but we both get a bad feeling whenever we get near it. "Pan! The suns coming up!" I picked up speed and ran up next to Icarus. Everytime we saw it was like seeing it for the first time. A great ball of light rising above everything. All living things look so small compared to it when it makes its appearance. "You think we can ever go up in the sky like it? I mean just coming up and looking down at everything on this planet." "If you want to then I guess you can. I never heard of any one getting close to the sun like that but I bet you could be the first." "Really? But what about you? I thought you wanted to go up there too?" "I want to go in the skies not to the sun." "Well suit yourself. I'll be waving down at you as I fly next to the sun." Icarus started flying in the space of the cave, acting like he was higher than me. Which I always felt he was, he could make more friends than I, and could be himself out in public. While I just sit and stay still, trying to pretend to be perfect when I'm not. Then the bell for wake up rung. "Come on Icarus. Lets go before they notice we're gone." Icarus nodded and landed on the ground. The both of us then headed down the path to our homes for breakfast.
Pandoras_Wings · Tue Jul 28, 2009 @ 05:37pm · 0 Comments |