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For

copinggoggles:

From sky blue to indigo and back again, why do my eyes change colour?

Part One

The world wasn't always as it is now. The great lakes were joined together, and rivers didn't run toward the sea because they were the sea, and the seas were they. The land was all gathered into one vast hump, lacking in trees, and plants, and any features at all save for the bare brown dust that covered it. There were only two things that varied the vast, brown landscape, and those were the hole in which Snake lived, and the hollow that Bird called home.

Snake was quite satisfied with life as it was. He had his hole for shade, a selection of rocks to bask on, and since he'd never had cause to hear of food or drink, he never thought to be hungry or thirsty.

Bird wasn't quite so cheerful. He felt like something was missing, only he wasn't really sure what it was. He sat on the shores of the large hump of land, and sighed to himself.

One afternoon, after the hottest part of the day in which he'd siesta'd, and on his way back for a gentle nap, Snake came across Bird in his favourite thinking spot, and stopped for a quick chat.

"Good afternoon, Bird."

Bird simply sighed, and so heartfelt a sigh it was that Snake felt moved to slither a little closer and look at him quizzically.

"What's up with you, then?"

"Hmm?" Bird looked down at him. "Oh, nothing dear boy. Nothing at all." Snake shrugged, which is an interesting manoeuvre on something quite so lacking in shoulders. He started off on his way again, but was stopped in his tracks by another gusty sigh. He turned back, with a sigh of his own, and slithered back to Bird.

"Alright, out with it."

"...Out with what, precisely?"

"Out with whatever it is that's got you looking like..." He thought for a second, and entirely failed to come up with an analogy. "Got you looking so bloody sad."

Bird sighed, yet again, and Snake quickly slithered around to the other side of him, in order not to get buried in the accumulated dust.

"I don't know. It's... I feel like something's missing."

"Aah," said Snake, and nodded wisely, because it was something he rather liked to do. "What you need, then, is a stone."

"A stone?" Bird looked dubious, to say the least.

"Quite," said Snake decisively, and nodded wisely again. "Follow me."

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And there endeth the lunch break, so the rest'll have to wait until later. *g*