Year 5

  Log of the boy

  Name: Orb

  Age: 10(approximately)

  Hair: white (normal?) Red (anger) Greeement) Yellow (fear)

  Brown (nervousness) Grey(fusion) Cream(hunger)

  Lime(lying) e(disfort)Bck(worry)Pink(happiness)

  Purple(?)Gold(arrogance)

  All with strands of sliver

  Eyes: Blue(left) Ght)

  Likes: Drawing, Food, Snow Sculptures, Books, Captivant, Wolfie

  Dislikes: Bei alone, Physical tact

  Height: 150 cm

  “Orb, it’s time for your special crash course in the Heavens and the Heroes songs. Let me hear your excitement.”

  Orb screams very cutely.

  “Orb in this world, there are three main nguages in which all others derive from, we call these the trinity nguages or the tria carmina. The saviours song, the heavens song and the heroes song.”

  “Hey Capti, why are their different nguages, and why would they be differences between them?”

  “A nguage is heavily derived from enviros, so If you think about it logically, it won’t make sense for people living all across the world in different enviros to e up with simir nguages.

  And the differeween them is that the Heroes song has lots of synonyms because the Heroes nguage was forced to be adopted by many civilisations, but many of them simply ied their own nguages into it which led to this.

  The Heavens song issue is that a closed society used it for thousands of years, so because of that, it’s the most different from normal nguages. It is also an ideographiguage, meaning it uses symbols rather than phoic letters and many of them.”

  “Ok, I got it,” he replied.

  -Break-

  Φ Capti has been weird tely; he told me he was getting a present ready for me, but he’s spent months locked away in the room called a study, upstairs, only ing out to eat and chee. I am worried, but since he is immortal, there is nothing to worry about.

  But that’s not the only weird behaviour, usually Capti is with me when I’m learning a nguage, but he has been handing me multiple workbooks he made himself and a glossary. They have been beneficial due to how detailed they are, but I would rather learn with Capti.

  But at least I have progressed a lot in both the heavens and heroes songs, I speak the heroes on a low level, but the heavens song is a bit hard to uand; I have to memorise symbols with very slight differences between them. It’s very annoying, but apparently Capti says I am learning abnormally fast, but it doesn’t feel like it.

  Still I would like to see Capti. He’s always locked away, which must be affeg him because whenever I see him, he looks more pale and tired than before. All of this, plus the fact that he keeps dodging my questions about what happeo his arm, has left me stantly feeling worried.

  “I have had enough”, I says as he marches towards the study. “Capti, I don’t feel well,” I says against the door.

  Then almost instantly, Capti opens the door. “Orb are you okay”. But then Capti feels a headbutt against his leg.

  “Gotcha, Capti”, I say as I smile upwards.

  “Orb, you shouldn’t lie like that. You don’t want to be the boy who cried deer. Because when a deer is kig the shit out of you, no one will e to help you,” Captivant says sternly.

  “Sorry, but it was the only way to get you to respond. Now e outside and py with me.”

  Φ “I ’t orb. I am sed right now”, is what I say to the orb, but to be ho, I don’t think I physically ha right now.

  “Please, Capti,” he says while looking like a sad pet.

  I must be clear and straight with him. “Orb, I said no, it is not happening,” I say harshly.

  Orb starts sulking and says, “But I just wao talk to you, since you have been ag funny this year and we haven’t spent much time together. It’s b only reading and w every day, so I just wao py with you.”

  Crap, I hadn’t realised how little we had seen each other this year, I got to fix this “Ok Orb, let’s go out and py.”

  “Capti, follow me,” Orb says as he runs headfirst into the snow.

  It’s been a long time since I was out here. I probably avoided it because I’m not that fond of snow anymore, my right arm is a stant reminder of that.

  Looking around, I notiething ridiculous Orb snow sculptures now have houses. “Hey Orb, what’s all this.”

  “Well, in one of the books I read, it said everyone deserves a roof over their heads, so since I had lots of time, I built everyone houses that they could live in,” he says with a proud smile.

  Shit, I have given this kid too much free time. All of this is making me feel terrible. “Orb, let’s have lots of fun,” I say eically.

  So as we py ames, Orb says, “Watch me do this”, and then he proceeds to do a handstand.

  “That’s cool, Orb.”

  His hair turns pink, and he says, “I also do this as well”, then does a cartwheel but nds very Shakely.

  That nding wasn’t perfect, “That’s amazing, Orb. I’m blown away.”

  Orb’s hair then turns bright gold “Ok, now for the finale, look at this,” then he proceeds to try a backflip and nds on his face.

  I ugh at this, crap, I got to stop, this won’t be good if he sees me. But then I see his face looking at me with tears in his eyes, oh no.

  Orb quickly gets up. “I do it, I just had a sore leg today,” he says with his hair turning lime.

  “Well, really, Orb isn’t that very ve, especially si didn’t seem to bother you with the other two moves,” time to give this child a taste of his own medie.

  “That’s just how it is, Capti. If you ’t accept the truth, that’s just childish, you child,” he says arrogantly.

  It seems he fot he was g a sed ago, but as a grown-ass man, I will five him. “Ok, I believe you just wait till the day you do it properly, ok Orb.”

  Orb’s mood improves, saying, “Of course; I just have to wait for my leg to heal.”

  “Orb, since you’ve shown me all of your oves, I will show you one of mine,” so I proceed to show him a one-hand handstand, then I go from one hand to my fingers.

  “Capti, so cool, that’s super cool,” he says with a green head of hair.

  But then suddenly, I fall to the ground.

  Φ “Capti, what’s wrong” he is lying crouched on the floor, holding his chest.

  Φ Crap, my chest, it hurts. I pushed myself too far. The pain is searing; I feel it throughout my entire body. This is some of the worse pain I have felt in my life.

  “Capti, Capti, Capti”, Orb says as his hair turns bck.

  Damn it; Orb is starting to panic. I must fight through the pain. So I get up and say, “Gotcha, look at that childish g face.”

  “THAT WAS NOT FUNNY,” he screams at me.

  I was then forced to sit down on my knees, as Orb pined.

  “Sorry Orb, I promise I won’t do anything like this ever again,” I say with his head plunged into the ground.

  “Well, as long as you uand, it is ok, but if you do that again, I will never five you. Do you hear me?”

  “Yes, sir Orb.”

  “Well, I’m not in the mood to py anymore, so let us go baside.”

  Due to this lousy mood, pytime ended after that, so we returo our rooms, wheered the study, I fell suddenly to his knees.

  I was able to hide the pain until Orb finished his rant, good thing he didn’t want to py anymore after my lie. It’s been years since I felt this searing pain. Due to heart issues the doctor telling me I had one year left. I gave a lot of shit to those fruits, but they kept me healthy.

  But I o be careful ihing I do, so I don’t break down. I still have a lot of work to get done, but I o keep in touch with Orb as well, so much work. I sp myself in the face with my hand and say, “There’s no use in pining now, I just got to try my best.”

  -Break-

  Φ Capti has been looking worse and worse the more I see him. At first, he was just tried, but now he looks worse and worse every day. It is gotten to the point, where I don’t want to ask him to py with me because he seems like he is struggling, I even make all the food that we both eat.

  I have been w what’s wrong. He is immortal, and he has beeing, so it ’t be anything physical, so it must be mental. Something is making him sad it’s up to me to fix that.

  When I’m sad, it’s because I’m lonely or Capti is trying to hug me. So, I shouldn’t do either of those. Wait, I am so stupid, He must be sad because I have never made a snow sculpture for him, Capti be so childish sometimes, so I should try to give him one.

  “Hey, Capti, take this. I made it for you.”

  Is this a snow sculpture of me? It’s well made (For Orb) with one arm and everything. “Thank you, Orb. I appreciate this,”

  “Hey Capti, are you okay you look tired.”

  “Yeah, I am fine. I am w hard, and I tell by this, so are you,” Capti gives me a soft smile.

  Whehis said his expression was calm, it was just a tiny smile. I am sure it is probably nothing, but it looked as if he couldn’t make his body smile any more than that.

  Capti still looked tired, so that couldn’t be it. Maybe instead of looking at things that make me sad, I should see things that make me happy. well, I like it when Capti says hings to me, so maybe I should plement him. But will that be enough? Then I felt a jolt of sudden inspiration. I think I have ahat might work.

  But I will o grasp the heavens and heroes songs better to do this. I know I do it, Capti has been doing something for me, even though he has not been looking well, I do the same let’s go.

  -Break-

  Φ Crap, what time is it? I have been w all day for like the 360th time this year. I didn’t even work this hard even back when I was a , though I guess my st job didn’t have a child’s life hanging in the bance, but at least I’m almost done.

  Oh, Crap, Orb, I haven’t checked on him today. As of te, he’s beey engrossed in something, so we haven’t spent much time together.

  I thought Orb stopped askio py with him due to him notig my deterioratih. He is an intelligent kid, but maybe he has been just so obsessed with what he was doing that he did not want to py with me.

  So, as I head down to che him, I feel pain throughout my body: My arm is sore, my legs are bug, my chest has a shearing pain. This feels nostalgic. It’s almost the same as when I was climbing this godforsaken mountain. The ever-increasing pain I feel makes me wonder if I will be able to finish up before my body gives up.

  When I arrived, I saw him passed out on the floor. It’s been a long time since Orb has fallen asleep out here. So, as I go to pick him up, I see a letter on the floor.

  So, is this what he has been doing? I should put it down, but then I see it is addressed to me. Well, that’s all the permission I o read it, I say to myself as I look at it.

  To Capti

  You are excellent. You’ve made my life a wonder every day I have been with you. Without you, I would have never experienced so maiful things, such as drawing, Arithmetic, food, clothes and books.

  Your books brihing but happiness, from your books I tell that you’re a person who loves others and respects their troubles; I see this iails you put into your books.

  I was so lonely and sad when Wolfie left. I thought I would be alone forever, but you promised you wouldn’t go, and I was able to be happy again.

  I don’t know my parents, they probably left me on this mountain to die, but I don’t care about that. You and wolfie raised me and gave me everything that makes me happy, like my name Orb. I love it.

  Sardless of what’s making you sad and tired, know you are amazing, and I love you.

  From Orb

  I feel like tears welling up in my eyes. This letter is written in three different songs. He was stu Heaven’s song, so he must have worked hard to get this done. So, as I use all my strength and struggle to take Orb back to his room, I say, “What a failure of an adult I am, I couldn’t stop this child from being worried,” I mutter. Still, thank you, Orb. This has givehe strength to finish the rest of my work. I sp my face to wake myself up.

  -Break-

  Φ “So fy,” I say as I gently open my eyes. When I do, I see I am on my bed. I don’t remember ing up here st night, then a sudden realisation hit me: Capti must have brought me up. Oh no he must have saw my note!

  It was supposed to be a surprise. Let me make sure he hasn’t seen it, so as I leave my room, I go into the study, open the door and say, “Capti.”

  “Orb, could you please quiet down? I’m celebrating finishing my work a few minutes ago,” Capti says as he ys on the floor.

  “Capti, where you are w all night, that isn’t good everyone o sleep, so let’s get you to bed.”

  “Sorry, Orb, I ’t do that right now.”

  “Why”

  “It’s just that it seems I ’t move my legs, and my vision is getting a bit blurry, and my chest hurts a lot, so I think I am going to go to sleep,” Capti says softly as he passes out.

  “CAPTI” I screams. I don’t know what’s wrong with him, but it’s physical. If so, then I o take care of him until he feels, just Until he wakes up.

  Year 5 End