Entry 6: My First Name

-Me-

After the voice noises left my world and I lose consciousness, I woke up to find myself floating in a dark, empty place. I could no longer feel the ground beneath my feet, the air in my lungs, or the warmth on my skin. All was cold, empty, and dark. I remembered this place from long ago. It was the place I had come into existence; or at least, it greatly resembled it.

I remembered that there had been a strange grey skinned creature last time I had been here, and I looked around to see if it was here again. It wasn't, and I was alone. The thought disappointed me.

One thing that was different was that there was a softly glowing image beneath my feet. I had no real comprehension what sight was. I only know that there was an something beneath me that was burning into my mind. Strangely enough, I recognized the image. It was the same circular shape that my maker had put me through when I was dropped into my dark, stone world.

Just as I was beginning to wonder if anything was going to happen, I heard a voice in my head. The voice was unlike the voice of the grey skinned creature. I know because my maker had been making sounds to itself as it handled me.

Of course, I was curious about the voice in my head. It sounded… muddled… as if it were speaking through a wall. I didn't know the meaning behinds the sounds the voice made, so I only paid attention to it because it was something new.

I thought all the sounds would feel the same, but one grabbed my attention. "Felladin" was the sound, and hearing it seemed to change something inside me.

Upon hearing "Felladin", I felt an insufferable heat well up in my crystal heart. The heat quickly spread to the rest of my body, and I cried out in pain. I felt those metal bones I had been given heat up and liquify. I could vaguely tell that my bones were changing shape. They were getting longer.

Thankfully, the pain didn't last long, and I was left feeling exhausted.

I remember floating there for a long while – in shock over the painful experience I had gone through. Eventually, the pain dulled and I was able to focus on other things.

I grew curious about the sound that had caused some change in me, so I repeated it out loud to myself. "Fel...la…din…"

I noticed that the grey, soft glow below me got a little brighter. I looked down to see what happened, and there was a change to it.

I didn't really know how to describe what was different; I only knew that the shape became larger and more complicated.

Intrigued by what the sound did to the world, I repeated myself with more confidence. "Felladin!"

I felt the image grow larger and larger… or was it getting closer? I had no way of knowing the difference at the time, as the concept of sight wasn't intuitive to me yet. Moments later, I passed through the image and fell onto the hard stone of my dark world yet again.

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At first, moving around in my dark, familiar world was a little confusing. I would bump into things and run into walls where I thought there were none. It was as if my world had shifted and become different. Was I in a different place?

I only realized that I had grown larger when I tried climbing up the shelves. Upon reaching for the first shelf, which was always chest high for me, I realized that my hand unexpectedly reached deep into the cuppy hole. After doing some quick investigating, I learned that I was now twice as tall.

I also found out I had become a lot stronger when I was rearranging the stone slabs in the shelved room. Before, it required some effort to move them, but now, it felt almost weightless.

I'll be honest. I was a little scared at first when I realized that I had seemingly transformed into another being. If I learned enough magic words, would I be as tall as the giant that made me? What else had "Felladin" done to me?

I opened my mouth and tried speaking the word aloud once again. "FELLADIN!"

I felt warmth gather at my skin. Then, I felt the heat sink into my blood and make its way to my heart. Once the heat reached my heart, it fell in and disappeared, leaving behind a numbing coldness to the air around me and the ground beneath me.

I was a little confused at the drop in temperature around me, and I moved to a different spot to see if this change happened everywhere. Thankfully, it had not. The only cold surfaces had been the ones I was touching.

Feeling my chilly skin, I grinned in excitement. I had just done something really cool?

For many years to come, playing around with my new abilities became the past time that replaced aimlessly throwing rocks.