Thread: Task of the Month for January 2009

There was a town that kept shifting into my dreams. It had tall skyscrapers that were aqua blue and dark blue and it looked as if it were underwater. I looked around, it seemed as if everyone was gliding along the ground, I realized that we were all ice skating. There were many people busy doing their daily routines, it was like a market place in Europe but with exquisite elegance. Then my view went into a sort of movie mode, or how you say "fly on a wall" perspective. The king of Atlantis was aging to his last moment, he would be dieing shortly and his son would need a home. There was a sort of a large board made of glass that shimmered like water. It was blank, the king looked very pale, more pale than all the other Atlanteans by far. He was whispering something, I couldn't hear him, but I wished to know what he was saying. Then his final words were being etched into the water/glass board. It was in another language, but somehow I knew what was written, it strongly resembled Japanese but was slightly different. He was leaving this plane of reality, into a long sleep as he described it, his son would become the heir to his throne, which was very plain white.

The next thing I knew, he had passed on. I was back in my body outside of the capital, out in the marketplace again. I looked around, every single elf (the Atlanteans resembled elves strongly, elongated ears, very tall and slender), started to emit a golden glow from the center of their chest. The glow was so beautiful and captivating, I also noticed that all of them were wearing either forest green suits, or pure white with gold trimming suits. The women had flowing hair down to their lower backs, whilst the men had hair that was either spiked up, fell down to their chins, or was put back into a queue (pony tail). It was as if all of them were interconnected by a magical force that tied their very beings to the king.

I felt like a guest there, no one paid any attention to me however, the crisp golden glows emanating from their chests sort of drew them towards the capital, and we all started to ice skate towards it. There wasn't ice on the ground though, it was some other substance. I followed everyone to where they were going.

There were thousands of them. They were flooding the center of the city, all the green and white specs in the distance, all their glows lighting up the sky with a golden hue. Light dancing off the walls and buildings, there were these small fairy like creatures flying through the sky as well... I was floating up into the sky, there weren't thousands of elves, there weren't hundreds of thousands of elves, there were millions.

We were all gazing up at the tower in the center of the city, a man dressed in solid white walked out from the uppermost balcony. He started to speak in a normal voice. Everyone heard him as if he was standing not 3 feet from you, not a speaker system, but speaking through their bonds by blood. He was reading from the king's statements.

His son was now king.

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Well this is my first Task of the Month, and I was rather surprised that I pulled it off! It was more amazing than words can describe, truly I will try to draw what I experienced, although I doubt it will be as beautiful as I remember.

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Just to clarify a few things:

For those of you who have watched the Animation series from Japan known as "Bleach" it was much like るこんがい　(Soul Society) in structure, with the capital being in the center of the city. I must say, it was the most amazing city I have ever been in.

Sounds interesting

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