never follow a firefly into the forest

Gilgamesh · 10-28-2021, 12:25 PM

The echo of his voice bouncing off the trees forced the bugs to scatter. In one blink of an eye, they were there, and the next, they weren't. Gilgamesh closed his eyes hard this time and upon opening them, they were still gone. Did he really just need to yell at them this whole time and they would've left? Glancing around curiously, he wondered how all of them, the huge floating cloud of blue buzzing fireflies had just disappeared.

In the pit of his stomach, something told him that it wasn't a good thing they were gone. An overwhelming sense of dread washed over him as slowly, the buzzing returned. One ear first and then the other. Buzz. How? How was that possible? Buzz. Making sure to paste his ears to his skull, buzz, Gil tossed his head back and forth to look for them.

Buzz.

From where he stood, nothing. Not a single, damn one of them. Frustratingly frantic, the large mottled man began to search. They had to be here somewhere, buzz. Constant droning in his ear as if one of them were stuck inside of it. Making sure to avoid touching any of the mushrooms of crystals that lay about sporadically, Gil pushed his nose into bushes, what tree limbs he could reach, and even dug a few holes. Buzz. They had to be somewhere. There wasn't any way these mysterious little bugs could still be buzzing in his ears.

"Please," he groaned, finally admitting defeat. Circling back around to the center of the clearing, he stopped and dropped to the ground. Laying his chin upon the soft grass, he pulled his paws up and over his ears. Buzz, buzz, buzz. Still, he heard them, and still, he felt the dread in the pit of his stomach. For once, he wished they would come back. Maybe they could forgive him. "I just want it to stop," Gil whispered through clenched teeth and closed eyes.

He would be willing to do anything to get the buzzing to stop.

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