In underground caverns of The Hallow Woods of Elytheria...
In a certain Cavity in the Middle Layers...
He opened his eyes, it was darkness all around him.
The darkness here was palpable, unearthly and nightmarish but it had a certain warmth to it that only he could feel...
Currently In the Cavity, he was lying on the cold ground on his back facing the ceiling..
Not much time had passed since he had opened his eyes...
He was simply lying there on the cold earth for the last 1 hour, just staring at the ceiling without moving or doing anything like a dead body.
But if one looked closely they would be able to see the life in his eyes and the slightly perplexed expression on his face as though trying to compherend where was he...
A minute later...
Suddenly, A male voice was heard in the long silent darkness of the Cavity...
The Voice sounded like that of an Adult, Instead of a child...It was deep and masculine.
It said...
"What is this place, it is dark, eerie and cold but ... how do I say this? It doesn't feel this way instead it feels warm'.
As though asking why the cold ground felt warm, why the darkness that should've felt all-consuming and sinister like someone's worst nightmare...Instead felt more welcoming, warm and calm...
But there was no one to hear it, let alone answer the Adult voice.
The ground he was lying on did feel cold but the darkness embracing him felt different. it was diffused with a warmth that felt soothing and present, like a mother cardeling and embracing her newborn child.
It gave him a quiet, serene and peaceful feeling even in the silent darkness that stretched as long as the flow of time...
... ... ...
After some time had passed...
He set up using his hands deciding to look around and find out where was he....
First he looked to his left...
Though the darkness enshrouded the whole area, he can still see clearly. As a being born 'in' darkness which had never seen light, him being able to see clearly in this darkness, which for other who lived up above could be considered all consuming and the biggest threat when traversing the interconnected caverns down below. was rather normal for him...
[ He is born 'in' the Darkness and not 'by' the Darkness like the 'Darkspawn's' or the 'creature's of the Abyss' ]
There on the left side he saw the rocky walls.
Then he looked around, the uneven ceiling up above, the ragged walls to the sides, the cold and flat ground he was sitting on. He could see and feel everything clearly, it all felt unnatural to him or something new, since he had opened his eyes not that long ago.
Then he turned to his right,
There on the right end of the cave's wall was a small opening in the ground like a alcove and he saw something unusual in that alcove in this ghostly and quiet atmosphere.
His eyes widened, "what's that?" His voice clearly reflecting his amazement in seeing something else other than darkness in this Cavity...
He just stared at it for a long 5 minutes, lost in his own thoughts.
Then as if on instincts he tried to think what that thing was...but he soon got distracted by another thought that suddenly popped in his mind.
'Who I'm, Where I'm, or What I'm doing in this small dark cave', soon he got his answer.
'So this is my birth place or the place of my origin and I was born here a long time ago but I only managed to gain my 'Ego/Will'... 2 to 3 hours ago'. He thought still staring at his right.
"So, I was born here directly" He said with an absent minded expression still not taking his gaze from that strange something.
'That's why this place feels so much...more..comfortable to me than anything else..' he thought with an expression that seemed he had already accepted the fact that he was born in a cave from nothing but magical energy and the essence of the planet itself or maybe be by the amalgamation of different energy's, as something natural.
For him, he doesn't care 'how' he was born. Be it by the amalgamation of energy's or some other mysterious or mythical phenomenon it was all the same for him.
'Hmm...who cares how I was born, even If I knew, what could've changed 'nothing'. He thought, as not much time had passed since his birth. So, his mind doesn't work like normal people's do.
Sometimes he would think like a child and sometimes like an adult. Like his mind can swiftly or automatically switch between the two things upon encountering different unique situations...
*And this is something only time will solve*
"Hmn...As for what I'm or where I'm...I know I'm not a magical beast, A spirit or something else entirely...It's such a hard question...welp..let's forget about it for now...it's not like it matters right now anyway....I just became conscious of myself not that long ago...so let's just focus on that...'where I'm'..." he mused as he turned to his left side where there was a wall not far from him...'a wall...huh'
"There is a wall on my left...it must be the cave's wall..hmm" he said as he moved and leaned against the left cave wall.
Now looking around the Cavity with much more attention where previously he was just looking and didn't give anything much attention.
Everything was the same as he had seen previously just that little something which was at his right side was now in front of him couple of meters away only...'Then to my right side must be the cave's entrance or exit I suppose' as he thought he looked to his right side..and 'Ohh.. well there it is'...it was sort of a tunnel only 2 meter in hight and 2 meter in width...
Even in this darkness he could still see the exit clearly even though no source of light is present in this cave.
"Huh, but the cave is a lot larger then the entrance...guess I'll just have to be happy about the fact that its high enough that I can still simply walk out of it without much problem.." he thought with a contemplative look on his face when he compared the cave's entrance to the cave itself which was about 9 to 10 meter high and 7 to 8 meter wide and 13 to 15 meter long.
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[ NOTE : JUST LIKE HOW A BODY WITHOUT A SOUL CAN'T LIVE ,
A SOUL WITHOUT A 'WILL/EGO' IS CONSIDERED A DEAD SOUL ]