Well, I found them.

Slowly standing up, I looked up at the sky I'd just fallen from. I couldn't see Miss Beak up there, but that wasn't too shocking. I couldn't see any of the hundreds of floating rocks either.

In fact…

Looking around at the vast field of wheat I'd fallen in, I shook my head at a god's audacity.

"No respect for the laws," I said as I looked around at a completely different dimension.

I was no longer in a dense forest, with cold and damp weather. I was instead in a huge plain, covered in wheat and barley, and it was seemingly a hot summer. A blazing sun was high overhead, and not a cloud was in sight.

Taking a deep breath of warm air, I noted that I didn't smell or taste a hint of the damp forest Miss Beak and I had just been in. All I smelled was the wheat. The wheat and the rich soil it was growing from.

Brushing myself off I walked through the tall stalks towards the road I had seen while falling. It was a short distance away, and I found it after only a few moments of searching.

Stepping out onto the paved road, I sighed as I looked up and down it. While in the sky, while falling, I had not noticed or seen any structures nearby. But I also hadn't been given long to look. I had felt myself go through some kind of barrier, feeling like a glass ceiling, after dropping from Miss Beak's back, but once I was through it I had fallen rather abruptly. I had felt the barrier high in the sky, yet once passed it I had found myself falling straight into the wheat field within the blink of an eye.

Which wasn't too odd, really. God's abilities, and the world they warped using them, acted in odd ways. Sometimes without any sense at all… but…

"All this wheat, surely someone harvests it," I said as I studied the road.

It was not just paved, it was paved not with just basic stone, but a fine mix of concrete. One that was obviously unnatural.

The road looked perfect. As if it had just been made hours ago, and had yet to have its first footfall or wheel scuff it. The grayish looking alabaster that it looked like was pristine. Too pristine.

"Typical," I spat as I chose a direction and headed down it.

Miss Beak would not follow. I relied on her, and trusted her and her abilities, but this was a god we were talking about. A powerful one, too. I didn't want her to get hurt for no reason. But that being said, I could have used her wings right now. Or hell, even if not her wings, her mere height. She was tall enough I bet she was able to see where I should be going…

Plus, now I was surrounded by divinity. The very air was thick of it, making my hairs stand up.

This was the place. Or well, a god was here at least. I wasn't sure yet if this was actually The Blue One or not, but I'd find out soon enough.

Walking along the paved road, with wheat on one side and barley on another, I found myself confused.

I had been walking for the better part of an hour, and still I'd neither found any sign of civilization nor did the endless fields end.

Slowing a little, I rolled a shoulder to see if I was being manipulated somehow. The feel of my muscles told me I was indeed moving, and nothing was afflicting me. At least, as far as I could tell.

Mental attacks did not affect me. Not the way they were supposed to. One of my mother's finer works. Any attacks to my mind, my psyche, were treated the same way my body did a physical attack. The affected part of the brain, the afflicted area, was decomposed and replaced by fresh and healthy material. By moving certain parts of my body, such as rolling a shoulder or twiddling fingers, I could tell if my motor functions were inhibited in any way.

They weren't, so…

"An endless world, maybe?" I wondered as I looked around.

Not an impossibility. But it made no sense. This place was supposed to be hidden from me, right? And it had been. If not for the snake monarch bringing me here, and telling me exactly where it was, I'd never had found this place. So… for what purpose would the god have created an endless loop of fields…?

Though it might not be looped… it might just be very big…

As I continued walking, I started to pay attention to the road. The dirt and grass around it. The stalks of wheat and barley.

It didn't take long for me to realize it likely wasn't a loop, or an infinite space. There were too many variations. Too many unique things that didn't repeat, like an ant-hill or the occasional small rodent or bird.

"Just miles of grains…" I groaned as the road started to turn a little. It angled to what I assumed was eastward, but honestly I wasn't sure if my assumed cardinal directions were correct at the moment. This wasn't the real world, after all.

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An hour turned into two. Then two more. Then, right as the sun high overhead had started to lower enough to start setting… I finally found something worth noticing.

A distant building. One with two large windmills attached to it. Some very dense gray smoke was coming from one of the building's chimneys, and there seemed to be voices on the wind. I couldn't recognize any of them, or anything being said, but I picked up my pace as I hurried to it as to do so.

Reaching the building, I found it was some kind of farmstead. Giant stacks of hay bales were piled in orderly fashion near one of the windmills, and they even had little white chalk marks upon them. Judging by the little marks and numbers on either side of them, they were marked not just for the date they had been harvested but maybe the warehouse or district they were to be sent to.

The sight of my own system being used made my back itch, but I knew better than to think it was really my system being used. After all I had learned it from my mother… and if this Blue One had taught them too…

"Come now! Stop dawdling!" a woman's voice shouted from within one of the windmills. The language was the same one I had taught to the nation I had brought up, but that too was not a surprise. I had taught them the language of the gods for a reason. It had stemmed from my idea of knowing one's enemy as to defeat them.

Stepping off the road and onto a stone path that led to the farmstead, I focused a little as I neared the main windmill.

I sensed divinity, as I did all around me, but I did not sense the source of it. If the god was here, they were a very weak one. Not only did I not sense a god, I didn't sense any hearts either. No sources at all. There were no monarchs here or at least none were nearby… so…

Reaching the windmill right as the source of the voice from earlier stepped out of the large door of it, I went still as I watched… a very human looking person emerge.

"Oh my…! Hello!" she noticed me right away, and gave me a look of confused concern as she glanced around.

"Hello…" I greeted who I assumed was completely human. She didn't just have no traits to speak of… she smelled completely human too. And that was very easy to confirm, since it was clear she'd been working hard for many hours. She needed a bath.

The woman gave me a look as she looked around again. "I'm sorry, was there to be a delivery today…? Or are you a new farmhand? I'd requested some more, but it's not even been two days since then! Usually takes you guys a lot longer to respond!" she said, speaking happily as she brushed her hands off on her dirty dress and walked over to me.

"Who's here, Staple?" another woman's voice asked from within the windmill.

"Not sure yet!" Staple shouted happily and then she smiled and nodded at me, telling me to answer finally.

Should I answer honestly…? For a tiny moment I debated playing along, acting a fool or maybe just innocent. But I was honestly not in the mood to do such a thing, so instead I just nodded.

"My name is Vim… I'm sorry but I am actually looking for the Blue One," I said.

The human tilted her head, and in doing so revealed she was sunburned on her neck. Her hair had hidden it before. "The Blue…? Oh! You mean the Goddess, don't you!" Staple laughed a moment and nodded. "I see! You're a visitor! Huh… wonder how you ended up here…" she then added as she crossed her arms and studied me.

"Not sure myself. If you'd just point me in the direction I should go, I'd appreciate it…" I said as the other woman appeared.

This one wasn't human. She had a set of white horns petruding from the sides of her head, though otherwise looked human enough.

"A visitor…? Here?" the horned one asked as she walked over. She had the remnants of crushed wheat, the makings of flour, all over her arms and hands.

"Can you believe it? I've only ever seen them in the city! Welcome to the Blue Kingdom!" Staple said with a happy tone as she gestured at me.

The horned woman frowned at me. "You're lost, lad. You're nearly a full day away from the city, and then days away again from the capital. How'd you get here of all places…?" she asked me.

"I'd like to know that myself," I admitted.

The human woman, Staple, then turned and happily clapped her hands. "Let's let Marie take him! She's never been to the capital before!" Staple declared.

My eye twitched and I raised a gentle hand to stop what I feared was about to happen. "I'm okay. If you just told me which way to go, I could…" I started to say, but neither of them seemed to care to listen.

"You going to do her chores while she's away? That girl will, accidentally, get lost a few times, taking weeks to get back," the horned woman said.

"Aww, let the poor girl go! She's been sad ever since her dad died, let her have some fun! We can all share in the chores, it'll be only a few minutes apiece if we do," Staple suggested.

"I really just…" I spoke up again, but wasn't able to get more out as the horned woman looked at me and shook her head.

"Law is the law. All visitors must be taken straight to one of the guards, or the capital. One of us has to take you, whether we want to or not," she said plain and simply.

Great. I was in no mood to be treated like some honored guest, or worse a bum. I was here to kill their god, not to be welcomed with open arms!

"Come on! It's about to be night, you can eat and stay here then leave in the morning!" Staple happily said as she hurried to head for the nearby building.

"Wait…" I groaned as I debated just running off. It wasn't like they'd be able to catch me, and even if they did…

"Aye, ain't no one going to say we don't take care of guests!" the horned one said as she stepped forward. She reached over to grab me by the shoulder and arm, as to force me to join her.

I ignored her flour-stained grip as I bit back a few choice words. "I really am in a hurry…" I tried again to get out of this.

"No point hurrying, lad. Whatever you're set to do will come to pass, just let it be," the horned woman said, speaking to me as if I was some tiny child.

Annoyed beyond reason, I let loose a deep sigh as I allowed her to drag me to their home.

Just great. The worst part was I couldn't even justify running off. I still saw only a sea of fields as far as I could see in any direction. That meant if I ran the wrong way, there was a chance I'd spend more time running around searching for this blasted capital than I would spent just waiting for a guide to show me the way.

Although not happy about it, and antsy beyond belief… I went ahead and accepted their odd hospitality.

I've been searching for this Blue One for hundreds of years. A single night won't matter, I guess…

Plus… spending a night with them might give me some more insight into their life. And more importantly, their Goddess.

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