The Queen comes out first from the secret room. Following behind her is Who holding Ello.
The guards and the King look calm, even with their big helmets on, but their weapons are no longer out.
“Burty! Burty!” Yells Who and she runs to hug Burt while he stands close to the guards “I’m glad that you are…” She pauses because Burt hand is up and is offering one of the jelly balls “I’m not that happy mister, keep it together…”
Burt sighs as if not understanding and stores the jelly ball under his chest plate
Who looks back and notices the King is curiously looking at the Queen. The Queen looks as if a bit of color came to her face, she looks at the King and slightly taps her shoes, a shy smile on her face.
The King seems taken away, like if he hadn’t seen joy or the smile on the Queen’s face in ages, he takes his hand to his heart, but as he looks down he sees his armor, and looks at the Queen without a helmet, he walks and puts his helmet on her, while looking at the main entrance worried. One of the guards gives his helmet to the King and rushes out to grab one from the main hall, the place is like an abandoned armory.
“Did we put them in danger Burt?” Who asks thinking out loud. The King looks at the other guard and then looks at us. He turns around and walks the Queen towards their throne. The guard stands between us.
‘I know, I know” Says Who “We were just leaving”
She waves goodbye to the Queen, but she’s once again lost in her thoughts, calm.
The guards are guiding our friends through the bamboo forest. The ground is no longer full of vines and roots, it’s actually getting sandy and more spacious.
“What is that noise” says Who and starts running towards it “Its the sea! Its the sea!” She yells back at them “Burt! Look they found your cart!”.
Close to the beach, Burt’s cart appears undamaged, not too much difference from it usual beaten up look. Seems like the guards had found the giant spoon saddle as well and set it on top.
Who ran towards the beach and saw a big misty ocean in front of them
“Wow!” She says, “Thank you!… huh? Guys?” Who looks for the guards but they are already gone. “Well sorry and thank you” she says and the turns back to talk to Burt “Burty? Ello?” She starts running around in circles but there’s noone there “Guys! Help! I cant see you! Are you invisible?” She starts wandering around waving her arms as if trying to touch something invisible
“Ehllloooohhh” Says the Bee
“Ello! Sweetie where are you?” Who yells at the beach “Aaahghhh!” She screams surprised as Burt just popped out of the chariot ball, leaving a round opening on it. He stands proudly in front of it
“Eeewwwwwww, take a bath” Who says
Ello pops out its head from inside the ball “Eloooooh”
“Sweetie no!” Yells Who and runs to grab Ello, she pulls it out and holds it away from her “A bath!” She says and starts running towards the water. She splashes in and tries to dunk Ello in the water but Ello is giving a fight, jumping and trying to get loose
“I have to wash the poop out! Mommy will clean you! Ello stop!”
Ello jumps away into the ball, the opening is small now
“You!” Who says at Burt who seems so confused about what is happening “Help me get Ello out of there and put him here!” She says pointing into the ball and onto the floor.
Burt thinks for a second, he jumps into the ball and the opening gets bigger again, he then jumps out and puts Ello on the ground.
Ello jumps in back again
“No!” Who is frustrated and starts walking slowly towards the ball, sniffing the air. “Ellooo?” She says slowly as she peeks through the opening. Ello is sitting inside glowing a bit. “Wait a minute” Who says, her head almost inside the ball “It looks like a birds nest” she grabs the edge of the opening and notices is like dry vines weaved together so tight it keeps its shape. The outside looks like a single piece because it has a clay like covering. Inside there is a bunch of stuff and ello is sitting on top now sleeping.
Fwooomp! - “Aaaiieeeeeee!!!” Yells Who, the opening just close and her head is stuck inside. She starts waving her arms and kicking trying to get out. Burt gets close to help and she randomly grabs his shoulder.
“Dont you dare touch me you mister!” She says trying to push him away, her neck hurts trying to push herself out and remembers Burt is so strong he stands motionless and unaffected like a mountain. She then has an idea and stops kicking around to find footing on Burt. Uses him as a step and tries to push away to see if she can go in.
Swomp! - she managed to get inside up to her waist and is kicking around desperately “I can’t squeeze in any more im not a roach!” She cries “Ok! ok! You win! Push me in! But watch your hands mister!” She yells as she waits grumpily with her arms crossed.
Burt just pulls on the opening and it widens again causing Who to drop inside face first
“Why didn’t you do that in the first place you big meanie!? She says yelling from inside as Burt scratches his head. “Yeah right I’m onto you mister!”
She starts trying to move around the stuff “What is all this junk?” She says looking at different pieces and broken stones. She shakes Ello a bit “ Mommy needs some light sweetie hat but little hat”
Ello starts purring with a buzzing sound and his glow grows a bit.
“Thank you, now look at all this space we could be hiding here and sleeping everyday” she says as she starts throwing things outside the ball while Burt holds the opening. He just looks at all the stuff falling in the sand”
Sssplisshhh - “Oh no” Who says, she just realized she stepped onto several blue jelly balls “Aieeee!!” She yells and jumps outside of the ball, running towards the sea. She starts splashing her foot inside the water, rubbing it against the sand trying to wipe the jelly goo off.
“It’s one after another thing with you Balthazar! Look at where you put your…” She stops talking, Burt is kneeling on the sand grabbing the things, Ello is on his shoulder looking attentively. Who approaches them and sees the things have markings and look like crafted items, but all are damaged. She kneels besides Burt and grabs one of them. Is like a worn armor plate that has a feather carved.
“Burty” She says “Burty these are your things, your memories. This is your life” She looks up to the chariot “You are keeping this safe so you don’t forget… who you are” she looks at her hands, and touches her horn “I know what that feels like Burty”
She stands up and wipes her face as if he had started to tear up “Well I’m going to keep them safe for you, because you are a good friend!” She bends to speak to him closely “Uh but yeah go clean that blue thing please”
Burt is looking inside the ball through the opening as he holds Ello while it glows and sleeps. Who is happily humming as she organizes everything into bundles made of big petals and securing them onto the weaved wall. That way when the ball starts turning everything will stay on its place.
Back at the bamboo forest, the fountain room has a different sound. The trickle of water that falls from the roof onto the bird statue grows bigger and bigger.
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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