Crystal Bones

2020-06-17

I was racing some street kid through the sunken canals.

He was riding some kind of motorized bike along the hardened path next to the water while I skimmed along the surface of the water wearing some kind of winged jetpack configuration.

Whatever it was I was wearing, it didn’t give me sustained flight. I had to keep depressing a thumb switch to get boosts, after which my wings would let me glide a long distance at high speeds. I guess it was somewhat similar to elytra flight from minecraft, but modded for podracing.

The canals were open to the sky. Above of people and streets and stuff were carrying on as normal. Sometimes streets crossed over the canal, and we had to be mindful of clearance. Especially those of us with wings.

Eventually the canal and path start receding lower down into the earth, more and more away from the surface, until the sky was no longer visible and we were fully underground.

My path diverged from the kid’s and I landed and was walking through a narrow rock tunnel. Soon, I climbed up out of the tunnel into a vast landscape made of bright crystaline bones that shifted and slid over each other.

As I watched, they swept up around me forming walls, and as they continued to grow together forming a perfect dome, several larger, singluar pieces of bone emerged, and they were the final pieces to snap together, forming a huge dragon skull at the top of the dome looking down at me. The entire enclosure rolled in place like a hamster ball so the skull could move down the wall to look at me eye level while I fumbled in place while the sliding bone scales shifted beneath me.

tags: #dragon