“Ok! ok!, you surely are ok!” Who yells at Burt “Stop staring at me you, you big, bufonious, blabering, bug!”
She takes a deep breath to try to relax. Looks around with a doubtful expression and says,
“So. Am I to believe, that accidentally, a honey drooling bee…”
“Elooooooh” says the Bee
“Smacked into me” Who continues “While I carried beautiful petal flowers, and, somehow, accidentally, I came out of the pond wearing this?” Who is now wearing a honey leotard, an off shoulder jacket and a tutu made from petals. Ello is on her back and has its wings spread making Who look like a flower fairy.
“I don’t know who I am! or what is this place? but oh if I find out that someone is messing with me, oh boy I swear!”
Who pauses as she feels is stepping on something "Huh?” She says noticing the honey goo made sock like covers on her feet, they are rubbery and feel grippy against the slick roots.
“Oh slippers!” She says and starts doing a little dance. “Sigh, Well, ok” says begrudgingly.
She grabs Ello and holds it in front of her, it's like a big fuzzy cat, but light as a feather. The bee is holding with its small legs the sparkling crystal shard Who had found a bit ago.
“Thank you” Says Who “It seems you wanted that shard, I think that is what makes the flash. How did you learn that Ello?”
“Baaash” Says Ello the bee
“So you use it to build huh? That is pretty cool” She says and looks at all those honey covered things they found, and looking above, attached to the tall bamboos she can see several small honey looking hives.
Much later, Burt is carrying Who on top of him, she sits crosslegged looking back, watching their back, resting her elbows on Burt’s trident and her chin on her hands.
"Why is it that Im always moving backwards when traveling with you Burt?"
They are walking on a thin corridor between the thick bamboo, the floor is covered with small spiky roots, so Burt offered to carry them.
On Who’s back, Ello sleeps deeply
“Ello! Sweetie you are drooling on me!” Says Who, waking Ello up, and it goes up to Who's head to sit on her horn
“Wweellooow” Says Ello
“Sorry didn’t meant to wake you, I feel worried we have been on this spiky path for a bit now”
All of a sudden Burt stops, his foot is hanging in the air waiting to give the next step
“What’s up Burty did you stepped on poop?” Asks Who seeing him frozen “I don’t see anything” she adds while scanning everything around them, then looks back at Burt's foot to see a sparkle, a flash of light of an almost invisible strand glowing against the dim light.
“Oh Burty is that a spider web?” Who asks as she nervously looks around them
“AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!” Yells Who
“BwaAaHh!!” Yells Ello
Who quickly covers her and Ello’s mouth.
Burt turns to his left and sees a spider as big as him, motionless, hiding between the tall bamboo. The spider’s eyes have a misty fog in them, as if it was empty inside.
Burt slowly tries to lift his foot to unstick the strand, and on the last second it unglues from his foot making a twooong! Sound.
The spider jumps at them but Burt dashes forward running as fast as he can.
Who is screaming with her mouth covered as she hugs onto Burts trident.
Ello fell asleep.
The spider is fast and runs on the bamboo walls jumping from one side to the other.
They reach a small round clearing but there’s no way out.
The spider jumps at Who.
“Haaaaaaaat!” Yells Ello and instantly glows hot, jumps at the spider hitting it in mid air, making its hairy skin burst into a quick bright flame. The spider falls to the ground knocked out and smoking.
“Aaaaahhhh!” Yells Who, as she runs and grabs Ello from the spider’s side and going back to Burt
“Burt is a trap! we are in a trap!”
Burt is looking around and the only way out is up, but the walls are covered in web, he jumps at the wall and tries to climb but he gets stuck in the sticky web. He frees himself from the web with his strenght but is only climbing slowly getting itself stuck more and more.
“Burt! Where are you going? We need to get back that way!” Says Who , pointing at the path they just came, and terrified she sees there are more spiders coming in quick.
“Buurt!” She yells, hugging Ello tight as she runs towards the back wall, only to see Burt managed to climb midway to the top, covered in broken web strings
The spiders trip onto the fallen one, that shakes itself up and all dash towards Who.
“Haaaaaaaat!” Yells Ello as it glows.
Who thinks quickly and throws Ello at the webbed wall. A bright flame quickly consumes all the web around them, leaving a heavy cloud of smoke.
Who stands motionless and silent, the spiders have that hazy look in their eyes and seem not to know where anyone is as they walk around slowly. The spiders start shooting string, and put their feet on top of it.
“Thats how they see us” Who thought, as she shivered seeing a couple strings being thrown around very close to her.
A string hits her leg “Aieeee!” She yells and runs towards the wall where she threw Ello.
The web strand snaps from her leg and the spiders start running at her, and when she hits the wall.
She feels something grabbing her arm “Aieeee!!” She screams, but looks up to see it's Burt that has bent a bamboo stick and brought it down. He grabs her waist and lets go of the wall holding onto the bent bamboo that like a slingshot send sthem away. Burt made a slingshot thinking they would be trapped in the web, and now they again are falling over the bamboo jungle as Burt opens his gliding wings.
“Ello!” Who says happily as she sees Ello is under one of Burt’s arms.
“Watch out!” She yells because suddendly from the mist appears a spider falling onto them. Burt has no other option but to close its wings and drop to evade it. It misses them by a fraction of a second. But now they are falling tumbling onto the tall bamboo.
A moment later Who and Ello are laying on the ground. Burt is nowhere around.
“Ooooohhhh that was a tall fall” She says looking at the sky far away above the tall bamboo.
She gets up and stretches “Ow! That is going to hurt tomorrow. Hey! where's my skirt?” She says and looks around to see her skirt is just above her, caught on a bamboo
“Well, well well” She yells grabbing the skirt and putting it on “Somebody! Wanted to give me another wedgie huh!? Well not this time! And whenever I find out who’s responsible!”
She stops as she sees the two tall bushy vines have found her again
“Let me grab my bee” she tells them, and after she grabs Ello, she starts running away.
Courage drives us to explore what awaits out there and who we are inside, to face our questions and our need for wonder.
Who awakes in an unknown world and starts exploring to find out where and who she is.
There are creatures, secrets, mysteries and the search for Who’s in charge in here?
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