Name: Orb

  Age: 11(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: 152 cm

  As I get up slowly from the bed, I see no one beside me. Capti has probably started his hibernation. So, as I sp my face with my hands and say, “I have no time to waste if I want to see Capti. So I immediately head to the study to start my challenge. After getting there, I take a sed to take in all my surroundings and realise how many books Capti has stacked away. He did a lot of hard work, so I o as well. I go up to the desk iudy. It has a giant box with a note on top of it. The letter reads as follows.

  Hey Orb, how have you been? I guess fine, I probably am not, but that doesn’t matter, so I will tell you what to do. First, all the books are in a giant cube shape; starting from the door on the left-hand side of the wall opposite the entrance, read all the books n by n. The first few books are all workbooks for the Heroes and Heavens songs that I haven’t given you, finish those and the ones I have given you, and you will be profit enough to read everything here.

  Also, if you get lonely, you talk to my wife and keep her pany, she likes having versations, so I leave that all up to you. Work hard but don’t fet to eat and sleep.

  PS: I left some clothes for you to ge into in my room if you grow out of your current ones.

  After I finish reading the note, I immediately went to get Draga and said, “o see you again Draga, we will be spending a lot of time together from now on,” after that, I ran and grabbed my workbooks and then got started, “Let’s get started Draga,” I say with bright green hair.

  But right before I open my book, I hear a rge grumble. “Sorry, Draga, I guess I am hungry,” I say out of embarrassment, so I run downstairs to prepare food. While eating, I don’t know why but it tastes worse than usual.

  8 Months ter

  Books 15%“Draga was finally finished,” Orb says as he jumps with joy and closes the final book. I memorised four-fifths of the heavens song characters, so I read and write in it quickly enough, and I have a near-plete mastery of the heroes song. It was hard finishing all these books for both songs, but I succeeded and ’t wait to show off all my new skills to Capti. Now I get started with the rest of the books, but first I o cut my hair.

  So, while using the mirror in Capti’s room, I cut my hair my skill at doing it is nowhere close to Capti’s, and my hair went from a giant cloud, as Capti described it, too messy. But it was lots of fun.

  I also decide to put on the clothes Capti made. I am surprised he could guess what size I would be, but he had raised kids before. Maybe that knowledge helped.

  Year 6 End

  Year 7

  Oer

  Books 40%

  I have been reading nonstop every day from one m to the , I fall asleep and wake up iudy; doing this allows me to read books from the moment I am awake.I only started doing this when I discovered my progress wasn’t enough. Eight months passed, and I wasn’t even a sixth done.

  All these books were packed with information, and I o uand them perfectly. Some days, I go without sleep or eatiirely, but it doesn’t inhibit me. It’s like I don’t feel tired at all, but then I would randomly pass out for about 8 hours, but then I am entirely refreshed. It’s strange. But to be ho, the food has been tasting worse and worse, so I don’t feel like eating it.

  I shouldn’t be able to do this. I know that sine of the books Capti left me are about human biology, my body should have stopped w a while ago, but it hasn’t. I feel sharper than ever. I taste, smell, and hear better. Due to all this, I have been able to shoot through many more books i four months.

  But oopic of the books, I don’t uand what some of these books have to do with his process of immortality. All the ones I read have been informational, but I don’t know why it’s like this. I wao check the books I have yet to read, but I am scared I will mess them up in some way and won’t be able to see Capti, so no matter what, I ’t do that.

  All I do is keep reading until I find my answer “Isn’t that right, Draga.” That’s all I do to see Capti again.

  Year 7 End

  Year 8

  Three months ter

  Books 55%

  The book’s stories started to ge after I reached the halfoint. Their now less about information, but back to the usual stories; some are books written by Capti, and some are from other authors. Yet this hasn’t helped me figure out how this will help Capti.

  Though because of the books I now know why the food doesn’t taste good anymore; its cause I am eating it alone, food tastes better when it’s beeen with someone, but no matter how lonely I feel it won’t do any good to pin about it just got to keep reading.

  6 Months ter

  Books 85%

  But it seems my body o longer keep up with my demands. When I want to walk, my legs ’t bance, my eyes, ears, and nose bleeds sometimes, and my hair doesn’t grow anymore. My body hurts a lot. But I am almost done and will be seeing him soon, so I put up with it.

  2 Months ter

  Books 100%

  I have finished all the books, and have read them all thhly in order. Now that I am finished, a part of me wants to gh them all again, but my utter depleted body wants to fall apart just from the suggestion, and I don’t know whether or not that will affeything.

  So, as I pick up Draga beside me, I go to the rge box at the top of it and open it up. I see a letter. It must be more instrus, so as I read the letter the first thing I see is this.

  Hey Orb, you’ve doo off gotten this far. I am sure this took you about three years to get through this. I am proud of you. Well done. But to ensure no fusion, I am dead, deceased, and never ing back. I am Mortal.

  Huh, what was it? Capti is not immortal, but he swore on his family life. Doesn’t he love his family? What’s going on? All these thoughts ran through my head chaotically. I couldn’t think or breathe. My chest is tight, and my head hurts. I keep up with this. It’s too much, is what I think right before I fall unscious.

  -Break-

  I get up from the floor, breathing heavily. I just had a terrible dream Capti was dead; I guess my mind go to stupid pces without sleep. “Wait, where is Draga,” but with a quick look around, I find her on the floor a little ways away from me.

  “Now, Draga, let's go look at the box Capti left, " so I climb onto the table to see it. “Huh, it’s already open. That’s weird. This all feels like déjà vu, Draga,” so as I look in the box to read the he only words I make out of it are I am dead deceased, I am never ing back, I am Mortal.

  Huh, so it wasn’t a dream. It happened. At the very thought of what I had read, all I could do was ugh, “THIS IS HILARIOUS”.

  “Hey, Draga, I am feeling quite hungry. Let’s go it”.

  So, I prepare food for myself with Draga ughing all the while. But after I finish eating, I only have ohought, “This is garbage,” this is the worse meal I have eaten in my life, no way I have beeing this same food for the past eight years. So, food that’s been good your whole life suddenly taste like this. I grab Draga, and start heading to my snow museum outside.

  “If I think about it logically, what else did I expect from the food because that’s just how life is for aence as disgusting as me!” I say as I smash a snow sculpture.

  “This is just what I deserve. I am an abandoned child who no one wants and who everyone leaves. EVEN THOUGH I TOLD CAPTI ALL I WAS SCARED OF, HE STILL MADE SURE TO MESS WITH ME, TO GIVE ME ALL THAT HAPPINESS, SO HE COULD TAKE IT ALL AWAY! WHERE YOU JUST LAUGHING AT ME ALL THIS TIME? I HATE YOU, I HATE YOU. NO ONE IN THIS WORLD LOVES ME. THEY ALL JUST E AND GO. WHAT’S THE POINT OF ANYTHING!” I say until I smash all the snow sculptures around me.

  Out of anger, I run right into the snow. I don’t care about what dire I am running in or what distaravel; I just know I don’t want to be here anymore. My body which hasn’t had any vigorous movement in a long time, wants to fall, but I don’t care. All I do is run as fast as I .

  “CAPTI YOU LIAR, YOU LIAR, YOU PROMISED ME ON YOUR FAMILY, WAS ANYTHING YOU SAID EVERUTH, WAS THIS ALL SOME FUN JOKE TO YOU, LIAR, I HATE YOU, I HATE YOU!” I run until I am entirely out of breath, but then I realise I am still holding Draga in my left hand.

  Why am I carrying this dead weight anyway? You probably aren’t even a real person, your just another lie he told me. So, I prepare to thra at the ground with all my force. But all the snow around me ges to a different colour, a dark blue, and it looks like the snow is floating around me.

  “When the moon shines and hits the top of the hill, it is said to be the most beautiful site in the world”, I remember Capti’s words as I look around this mountain. Pretty it’s beautiful. It’s the most fantastic thing I have ever, I say. He didn't lie to me as I cleared the tears from my eyes.

  I rush back to the house as fast as I , and go to read the rest of the note.

  Hey, Orb, you’ve doo off gotten this far. I am sure this took you about three years to get through this. I am proud of you. Well done. But to ehere is no fusion, I am dead, deceased; I am never ing back; I am Mortal.

  Now you might think I have told you a rather wicked lie. I would say I teically have not. In my opinion, the best way you learn about someone is by uanding what type of stories they like, and Orb all those books you have read is every book I have written and read, sht now I would say you’re the person who now knows me the best. Everything I am has been put into my books, and passed down to you and my family, so I will be immortal as long as you remember me.

  All those books were filled with information that will be helpful to you, from now on. I am sorry, I won’t be able to get you out of here physically, but I have enabled you with the ability to leave and survive.

  Also, for all your birthdays, I have missed there are two presents here. First, a unique cloth I made by repurposing the materials of my gear, so you wear something while, going to the bottom of the mountai, at the bottom of the box uhe clothes are letters of introdu, so if you ever get in trouble, seek out these people, and they will help you.

  Orb sorry I had to lie to you. I just needed you to have motivation. It’s been so much fun, and I know you will bring light into the life of others. as you have doo me. Be good and keep your promises. I don’t hope to see you but tell me how much fun you had whe.

  Tears are flowing down my eyes. I don’t know what to say in respoo what I just read, but I know what I must do now. I put on the clothes Capti left for me; a long garment split at the end to allow me to move my legs. It’s a bit big for me, but it’s still okay.

  So, I grab Draga and run to the pce I was before, and I burry her right e lump of snow. “Now you get to see it every year, goodbye.”

  So, after gathering all the letters in the box and finding a bag to put them in, I go in front of the house and bow, “Thank you for keeping me safe. I enjoy staying with you.”

  So, as I try to run into the snow, I see a tremendous amount of snow around me form into a giant wolf the size of the house, it is wolfie.

  “Hello Wolfie, it’s been a long time.”

  “Stop what you’re doing, go ba the house.”

  “I refuse. I want to leave”

  “There is nothing out there in the world except never-ending suffering. Go baside, or I will make.”

  “I am sure you could stop me, but I must go.”

  “Why?”

  “Because my life hear will never amount to much. Capti had happiness in the pce he was born. but he didn’t settle for that he wao find the pce where he truly belongs, and so do I. If I do that I am sure I die fulfilled. because if I don’t all I will be left with is regrets.”

  “All that sounds like is a curse to me.”

  “But that’s left to me to decide, so thank you for everything.” Putting his giant paw in front of me he blocks my path. “I am leaving no matter what so unless you want to kill me move.”

  So, as I run past wolfie with all my might, all I hear is, “You’re a fool” maybe I am, but I have never felt this free and happy, my body feels lighter, my head is clear. I am so excited I ’t wait.

  Character logs

  Name: Orb

  Age: 14

  Bday: Capri 28th

  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)

  Height: 164 cm

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

  Dislikes: Bei alone, Physical tact

  Name: Captivant Nightfall

  Age: 84

  Birthday: Taurus 23th

  Hair: Bormally), Grey(due to age)

  Eyes: Yellow

  Height: 179 cm

  Likes: Books, family, Orb, potatoes, alcohol,

  Dislikes: milk, berries, people who don’t like his family,

  Part 1 End