*
Water calmly embraced Maanta’s eyes as the makings of Orion’s Birth wove his thoughts from their dream scape into reality. The marble runed wall, which was built long ago to assist Orion’s Birth in performing whatever task it might have been created to perform, had begun to echo its melodic song in skipping waves across the inner sanctum.
It was here that Maanta lay; his pale, trembling fingers grasping soft earth while he had dreamt his daydream. Swarming, bubble plumes rose from the inner room and from the very sand beneath where Maanta had hovered and slept just moments prior.
They dance like fish schools, Maanta thought while watching as the bubbles waltzed towards their new home with the rest of their fluid’s family on the ocean’s surface.
Releasing his embrace from the ocean floor, Maanta used his ankle fins and cupped webbed fingers to swim his way up and over the inner Orion’s Birth wall. Along his ascent away, he wove somersaults and flips through the inner room’s bubble tapestry and managed the last minute rescue of a pearl white snail from the sand a few feet from the wall. He tucked it in a whale hide satchel his mother had gifted him some time before her passing. The tiny visitor would be safe here until Maanta could find a more suitable place to set his newfound friend down.
Once far enough away from the happenings in Orion’s Birth, Maanta curled a half turn to peer back on this place he so loved.
Orion’s Birth consisted of three oval walls. Two were made of stone that was consumed by millennia of kelp, coral and anemone inhabitation. The third, inner wall, was pure shimmering white, splattered with glowing runes the size of a young whale’s fin. This wall glowed with the soft, seemingly beaconing light of north’s constellations. Their calm, entrancing beams glimmered off the coral-covered walls, sprinkling shades of yellow, red and orange throughout the depths. Four outstretched pillars in the center of the final ring stood as titans and draped a shadow down on the surrounding sands. Their arms reached up as far as the eye could see.
All of a sudden, the center of Orion’s Birth filled with the clear liquid in a vast plume, which vaulted upwards and pressed in rolling currents against the ocean’s upper film. Filaments sand drifted slowly down. Neon streamers of light also danced before Maanta’s eyes. He had seen this display so many times yet was always mystified by the sight. He knew it was deadly if you got caught up in its plume, however it was also incredible. The currents were coming, and now it was time for his wild ride back to the Meridian Hearth Sands.
Maanta grinned with anticipation. Dipping swiftly down, he swam with ease. He knew what he would discover upon reaching the floor.
Archa…
His fingers quickly slipped around her smooth fins, and Maanta braced himself for what he knew was soon to come.
Archa was warmed by her friend Maanta’s body once more close along her back. Her deep dolphin eyes swept the distance in preparation, partaking of the calm before the storm.
*
Currents surged down the towering, transparent walls of the fluid column; swarming towards the ocean floor. A flurry of sand stirred as the currents dashed and swept for the ocean’s expanse, carrying many creatures and sands far, far from their homes.
The pair, Maanta and Archa, caught the pummeling current with ease, disappearing from Orion’s Birth, destined for Meridia. Maanta softly kissed the dolphin’s forehead and pulled himself closer to his friend in a tight embrace. The two… a harpoon in the ocean’s breeze.
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