Some silly lil doodles of the silly lil guy :3 Land of dreams: A realm, unable to physically be accessed by mortals. It is known as the land of dreams, an infinite plane of imagination. There’s only one building in this realm, which is the archives, where all the dreams of every human are stored. The rest is an infinite void, pitch black and no one nor thing to be heard. Ashling is the guardian of these dreams, and the only one who can access the land of dreams legally (according to the universes laws). Xe’ve spend the whole of eternity there, and never really though about life else where, what having friends might be like, or even just interacting with people. Since ash is the only one who can access this realm, it gets pretty lonely, and the only thing he can do is look at the dreams of others. There was one dream, it really moved him. It was from a girl who had just made her first friend. The dream gave a detailed description of her feelings, how happy she was playing with her new friend. Ashling wondered, was having friends really as amazing as it seemed? He looked at other peoples dreams of being with their friends. These humans seem so happy, it made him a bit jealous. For a while he thought about it, how wonderful making friends would be. Maybe…maybe it was time for him to stop looking at other peoples dreams, and instead live out his own. The journey: Xe look back at the world they’ve spent their whole life in. They don’t have many memories here, yet it hurts a little to leave. The space between the dream realm and earth is quite lengthy journey, and ashling has nothing except his immortal body. The journey was indeed long and tiring, by the time earth was in sight, ash was barely awake and starving. Earth had so much land! He didn’t know where to go. He felt his whole body go heavy, it felt like he couldn’t move anymore. He was limp, falling from thousands of meters above earths surface. Xe closed xir eyes, the pressure made him feel like xe were going to burst open. Moments passed before xe felt something hit their back. Xir eyes shot open, and everything was blurry. The only thing he could see was blue, until he fell again and now was facing the ground. He landed on his belly, the soft grass cushioned the fall, and all xe could do was lie there, unable to move. Xir eyes slowly closed and before long, xe lost consciousness. Earth: When xe began to get back their consciences back, he could no longer feel the soft feeling of grass. Now, xe felt a warm, very fluffy feeling and were instead laying more on their side. His eyes could only open slightly and everything was still blurry. Voices could be heard, but he couldn’t make out what they were saying. “Poor thing…” the voice was deep, yet feminine and a bit croaky, like they didn’t speak much. “It moved!” The same voice spoke again. They must of noticed his ear twitch. “Hello? Can you hear me?” Xe tried opening their eyes. All he could see was a gray blur, and behind it a taller navy blur. “It’s alive!” They sounded happy, he wondered why, they didn’t know xim, they didn’t even know what he was. Why should they care? Everything was becoming clearer, he could see the cat speaking to him now. She was a greyish-white colour with dark gray and blue markings, and a pink fringe. The other cat behind her was a navy colour with lighter markings, goggles and antenna, they were also standing on their hind legs and appeared to have clothing on. “Give them a minute, we don’t know if it can even understand what we’re saying.” “Right…” They left him alone for a bit, and when he finally got the strength to move, xe lifted xir head. The grey cat looked at him. Xe could her more clearly now. She had blue markings on her and long eyelashes. “Cosmo! Come here they’re moving!” He looked at her, not speaking. “Hey there, do you have a name?” Ash opened xir mouth to speak, but nothing came out. “Can you understand what I’m saying.” He simply nodded his head “That’s great! Can you speak?” Xe paused, then tried to say something again. This time only a raspy ‘ah’ sound came from xir mouth. “Ah…?” “A-ash…lin..g” xe finally managed to say their name “Ashling? Is that your name?” He nodded. “Ah! Well, my names Astra, and this is cosmo” Cosmo didn’t say anything, just looked at him like he was observing xir every move. Friendship: After cleaning ash up and giving him some space, they were ready to talk. “So, ashling was it?” Astra asked “Mhm” “What are you? You clearly aren’t from here, are you” Xe paused, thinking. Should he tell them? “No, I am not. I come from a realm, and I am its guardian.” He wasn’t ready to give them all the details…not yet. “The guardian? So, how did you end up here then?” “I came here.” “For what…?” There was a moment of silence before xe answered “…a friend” There was now sympathy in her eyes. Unlike cosmo who had maintained the same expression this whole conversation. “A friend? Did you not have any back at your home?”
-CONTINUED- “I never had a home, only a duty. And how could I make friends if I was the only one there.” Xe we’re looking down at the floor, a hint of sorrow in his eyes” “You came here for a friend…” Astra wasn’t easily swayed by emotion, this was uncommon, so much so cosmo moved his face for the first time, looking at Astra. Her frown turned into a soft smile “Well, how about we be your friends” He looked at Astra, wide eyed and shocked “You…want to be my friend?” “Well, here on earth there aren’t many like us. Me and cosmo have always been a bit…different compared to a lot of the other cats. And cosmo isn’t from earth either! Me, I’m not too sure where I come from, but it doesn’t seem to be here. We found you and took you here, most people would have either left you or took for their own selfish reasons. Here, you can feel more at home!” She looked at cosmo “What do you think about it, cos?” He sighed “I don’t mind, it’ll be nice to have someone else for you to nag. And don’t call me ‘cos’” She chuckled and turned back to ash “So, how do you feel about? And if you want, you can also stay here with us!” Xe wasn’t sure was to say, not that he wanted to say no, just that he finally got what he had been after all this time. “I would love to be your friend” Ending: They let ash have his own little room. “Sorry, it’s not decorated yet, but I’m sure can make it nice and cozy!” Astra set up a mattress on the floor for xim. “It’s ok, I don’t mind” he really didn’t, this was the best he had felt in all his centuries of living. “Oh, and one more thing” she rushed out the room, and returned with a little box “Open it!” A gift? He’d never gotten one before. Inside the box was an earring. It was studded at the base, and attached with a long string was a shiny golden star. “See, it matches mine!” She too had one, but hers was a hoop and had a longer string. “Welcome to the starstruck trio! I came up with the name” “I never agreed on it, but whatever” he could hear cosmo shout from his room The two laughed. “Anyway, have a good first night!” “-and sweet dreams”
