The laugh

Dylan was asked by the Morpheus Tree, If he accepts to be its Guardian and Keeper,...

But.

"No, I do not accept..." Dylan answered confidently and in a very straightforward manner.

"I'm sorry, Morpheus, I know you see potential in me or whatever, but the thing is, there is more to desire and thought as well." Dylan said, looking up at the tree.

An unexpected silence.

"When you think about it, just like I said earlier, I'm still just a child; there are things I'm yet to experience, things that life is meant to show me naturally, things like knowledge, experience, and happiness, in fact even more," said Dylan.

"What do you mean by knowledge, experience, and happiness?" the Morpheus Tree asked.

"Yeah, actually, I want to finish school, I want to go to college, I want to have a life, I want to do a lot of things." answered Dylan.

"Child! Those are things that are irrelevant, beyond all thoughts." Said the Morpheus Tree

"No, you don't gerrit." Dylan replied in a bashful manner.

"We are one telepathically connected child; admit your reasons or else I won't consider it. This is something beyond all human desire; you cannot tell me that you're trying to sacrifice all this for—." The Morpheus Tree was still talking when Dylan interrupted.

"Sex," Dylan whispered.

{{silence}}

"I want to have sex in my life at least once." Dylan Told the Morpheus Tree

silence In the moment, as Dylan himself immediately felt shy, he knew that he had just said something very embarrassing.

Then..

"Pfft.."

"Hahahahahaha." The Morpheus Tree laughed out so loud, completely ending the drought of silence.

Dylan steered with his eye almost closed due to the shame. He felt embarrassed; it was as though he had just told everyone in the whole world his dirtiest desires.

"Well, it's not even that much of a deal to laugh about, though." Dylan told the Morpheus Tree, which was in a state of laughter.

"Hahaha, child, you made me laugh."

"Indeed, child, you are indeed a truly honest young man, very special," said the Morpheus Tree.

Dylan immediately noticed one thing that caught his attention, something he didn't really grab. "The tree laughs?" he thought to himself.

"Perhaps I must have misread, perhaps I came too soon, perhaps I must have been wrong," said the Morpheus Tree.

"Huh, I don't understand," Dylan said.

"Dylan." The desert sand would begin to rise up, like wind blowing over it, taking the form of a tornado around Dylan.

"You have impressed me, child," said the Morpheus Tree as he began to slowly vanish.

Dylan began to float in the air, like he was being lifted by the desert sand that formed around him like a tornado.

"Woah, wait, Morpheus, what are you doing? ..." said Dylan as he himself went further away from the Morpheus Tree.

"Live your life, child. Have as much sex as you want." Said the Morpheus Tree in a very satisfied tone.

"No, no, wait, Morpheus, what exactly would happen if Epiales wasn't stopped?"

Dylan saw the Morpheus Tree completely disappear.

Then.

"wai-" Dylan saw himself getting pulled, as if he were being pulled back through the route he had seen in the journey the Morpheus Tree guided him through. He saw infinite bleeps of flashes from different realities, immediately reaching the human realm, and then saw himself going straight towards his house.

and in that moment.

{{SWOOSH}}

Dylan saw his body and went straight to it with a very powerful force that pushed his body, which lay on the bed in his bedroom, so hard that his wooden bed stand completely broke to the ground, making a heavy sound like a shotgun.

Dylan immediately opened his eyes, stood up, and saw the destruction in his room. He knew that nothing was "just a dream."

"Dylan, is everything okay up there?" Dylan's mom asked after hearing the noise from downstairs, as his room was up.

"Yeah, Mom, everything is good; don't worry; don't come up." Dylan replied.

"What the hell, Morpheus?" Dylan said to himself, looking up outside through his window. "I wasn't going to completely reject your proposal." Dylan said to himself, remembering the echoes of the laugh of the Tree of dreams.

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Volume 1 ends.