Chapter 8- Into the Cocoon

The inside was once again filled with a thick dark blue carpet with an orange and red line going across. The walls and top are all nicely furnished with light colours of wood, which are wavy, uneven, making each wave look like an overgrown tree root.

The cocoon is mainly separated in four parts; the kitchen with eating area at the middle, the library at the lower at, the play area at the top inside the building and the outside garden at the roof of the building. Right now, we are on the same layer of the library, but in a small area near the entrance, outside the library which is filled with floating cubes with the wall being a downward spiral of book shelves.

After the entrance, there were three paths; one to the library, a wide grey stone rectangular staircase to the kitchen, and a large flat circular standing platform with half of it pushed into the flat wall on the right side. It forces open a half circle into the walls room bottom of the floor to the 2.5m high roof and pass it to the very top of the building roof, where you're actually outside the building. My class went on the platform and teacher clicked a button on the sides of the walls with the letter W, to get down. It was a place that students can't go to without a teacher, though that is only for a few levels, other we can travel to on our own usually. Though, each person is granted different permissions on our knowledge cube so that each person can do different things.

The platform was an elevator, with each level a set of magnetic. When one level of magnetic is on full power, the elevator stays there. When the elevator wants to decrease or increase, the current magnet holding the platform will need to lower in power as the level that you want to travel to's magnet needs to increase in power until you are pulled over.

As the platform decreased and decreased, we made it to the last layer in the cocoon, the area connecting to the needle. This area is a self-contained sphere, linking the cocoon and the needle. We're on the top of this room on the elevator with a small half-circle platform extending out as the water that the needle was sucking up for the school lowers down the needle. The hole to the needle was at the centre of the curved floor with another at the center top which goes to the building. No one will ever get flooded here due to the watering lower everything the button is clicked for coming by anyone of permission and only starts again a few minutes later when everyone that came down on that trip leaves.

The size of the hole in the ground has had a radius of 3m, making it 6m tall, design for human passing. The top is a lot smaller with a radius of 1m with water storage above to connect to the bathrooms across the school, just under the bottom of the library. On the sides of the bottom wood curved floor is some very small holes pipes that leads to some other storages for lessons of specific water testing. The water is now completely gone on the curved flat surface with no lumps.

[Command: Gum Aura]

This gives me a field of what I imagine of a property of Gum. I Jumped down from the small platform the class was in before into the ground of 10m below.

Yea, they designed it for class walking was well.

And for those wondering, no, the school doesn't only have one elevator, there's one on the opposite side of the building was well where we are from and no, where we came down from wasn't the top of the elevator. And yes, there is an elevator platform on each level, each was their travel route to each location, however, if one elevator is already heading to a room, you need to wait until they are out, because they are only one opening at one time. Another way is waiting in your route on the same level and switch to the other platform when they are out.

I jumped down, but I can't even touch the floor, the aura stuck to the ground and stopping the force from the jump landing on the ground from reaching me, absorbing all the impact.

[Command: close]

The aura around me disappeared, and I felt to the ground from a 5cm high which the thickness of the aura. I touched the ground as the teacher got here. The class followed from the behind. With the ball made with the needle and the room having the ability to change central gravity, the teacher activated a command. The ball shacked a little as if an earthquake has hit it, then detached from cocoon building and the needle. The ball was hovering between the building and needle and made a 90 degree rotate, while the central gravity hasn't changed. We were now standing on a side, looking straight forward to the end of the needle. The teacher walked forward and up slop and into the needle's side. The needle's inside was 6m high, so there was no problem walking. Th class followed after him as Sugi, and I walked behind them.

Sugi and I walked together down the needle-like we normally do on any other road. We were facing the ground as I walked and saw a pit of the needle opening allowing air to come in. I took a look back at the ball, more people are coming along, as I remembered this was a school exertion. I turned back to look at the front and began to speak.

"They said traveling through the street would to too bothersome for the people on it."

"Um... what about it? It's true."

"I know, but this is more bothersome for us."

Sugi didn't say anything. But we have already come near the end as you can hear the bottom part of the needle being removed out the water so the bit remaining or the part where we'll come out of would be above water.

My class in front has already reached the end while the second class that came in was at the half way point. The teacher solidified a historic item called the large piece of wood and paddles inside the 20m wide water layer that covers 19m of it and stretches 10m back. As you pass through the opening of the needle, a field is placed there to get rid of gems and other dirty stuff which was one of the requirement for our school to us the water layer today, since this the water that people drink and shower with. That was also one of the reasons why we couldn't just fall down from the top and land inside. There's a field that stops everything from going to the water layer. Since it's a large field, it's harder for it to control which is which and it's dangerous for someone to set to for just human and whatever is safe to pass through because it may not have the power to control what it stops and lets through. However, for little fields like the one on the end of the needle, it can detect small things, allowing people to go through safely.

The teacher places a block in front of the wood to stop the water the pushing the boat. I jumped out the needle and turned a 90 to land on my feet onto the wood. The block was removed, and we began to flow down the crystal-clear water with the waves pushing us from the behind. Due how the platform is designed with the outer islands having a larger area but looser while the middle with less space and denser, which equals in numbers. The water line is never needed to be split while passing to the center island of the public platform. This way, we don't need to do anything as I took a nap and float down the waterway with my class.

It has been a few minutes already, and I wasn't that tired, to begin with since it is the start of a day. I opened my eyes and looked up towards the sealing of the water layer. I see the occasional sky from the passing opening on the main streets and the reflected light from the water onto the steel sealing that looks clam and wonderful, that you don't often see in this world. I drift and drift with the background noise filled with the unappreciated laughing, talking idiots, the gentle sounds of the soft waves and the light breathing noises of Sugi that slept beside me. Her face was calm as she felt looking towards me with her face almost in front of mine with her hair covering a bit of her face. I turned around with my back facing the boat again, feeling the small waves that touch the floating platform. The temperature in the mellow air was soft mixed in with a little cold that made me fast close my eyes to sleep once more besides Sugi.