Press spaaaaaaaaaacce!!!!!!!! Or click the words (not the picture.)
This is for a story contest hosted by @WoolyDragon! It's a story idea I've been meaning to write for a while but never got around to it. Mostly I think it's cool because of its magic system. So, yes, I know, there's not much 'story' in this story. Guy is special because his hair is shiny, falls asleep with an anteater, meets a silly cat and then a serious cat, talks to a chilly river, and then wakes up (really dumbed down summary). It feels kind of incomplete, as I'm not used to writing short short stories (long short stories, however, is a whole diffrent story XD) The main neat parts of this is the magic system/creatures I used, and I personally like Xav's character. Also, in case anyone was wondering, Bakus are real mythical creatures from Japanese mythology that are described as looking like anteaters, and the Lethe is mythological river from the Underworld in Greek mythology. It does make you forgot stuff, though not exactly in the way I described. Cat Sith is from Celtic folklore but doesn't really have anything do with dreams; I just thought that he was cool and needed to be in this story. Cover art was AI generated by the DALLE-3 generator. I'm kind of surprised that it turned out so good when my prompt was basically 'a teenage boy with silver hair and blue robes sitting in a grassy field next to a sparkly blue anteater.......' XD Cat was also generated using the same generator.
