Bug Butt Filler 13

>Apparently you only blacked out for a few seconds, because when the world returned to you, it was almost the way it left
>Chrysalis was now right in front of you
>When she looks away from the mountain, she catches your opening eyes
Are you ok?
>You nod
>You pick yourself up and wordlessly walk with Chrysalis to the mountain
>The walk is silent, because you keep wondering what will be there when you arrive
>The memories you got
>Well, more like fragments
>They were pieces of the puzzle
>A huge puzzle at that
>You know that you knew King Ibaje, on a personal level
>The lab was a piece of the puzzle, somehow
>The missing pieces still haunt you
>Like when this was, and how you got here before, not to mention again
>Who were you then?
>You had a castle
>Why? And how was it built like that?
>That door...
>What's special about it?
>And then there's the king himself
>How did you know him?
>Was he connected with something else?
>And what he meant about not doing well enough?
>He must have betrayed you, but how?
>When?
>What were you doing in response?
>The answers are out there, like the empty spaces in a game of hangman that you should know but you don't
>Slots where memories should be, but aren't
>The whole hike goes like this
>Questions storming through your mind
>When the two of you reach the castle in a few hours, they don't stop, just go to the back burner
>The castle is just as you dreamed, but not
>For one thing, it was old, clearly worn down by nature
>Stepping inside reveals rubble strewn about, taking away from the grand sight the walls once were
>Only a few portions remained
>Chrysalis is stunned by what she sees, and you almost leave her behind as you walk inside
>Just like in your dream, you see the places you walked
>Obviously curious, you do what you did in your dream, and walk up/around/on the walls
>At least, the ones that remain
>You are successful
>When the wall goes upside-down, giving you a view of the floor, you realize something
>Here, gravity is warped
Anon, how are you doing that?!
>Chrysalis is nervous again
>Like back in the forest
Gravity!
>You exclaim
>It's warped here! Some places, it changes direction!
>You call out, daring so much as to start running
>You must look insane to her, on the ground, watching you as you run up, down, diagonal, and sideways
>You even make jumps from one gravity field to another
>The sensation was unreal
>When timed right, you could jump one direction, and end up running in a completely different one
>You were having so much fun with this that you don't hear Chrysalis until it's too late
>You make a dull thud when you run into the column
>Just like the walls, it doesn't extend straight upwards the way one would expect
>It twists around eventually hitting the ceiling sideways
>You just fall to the floor, in a diagonal fashion
I told you to watch where you're going
>She rolls her eyes at you and offers you a hoof
>You take it and get up
What is this place?
>You answer on reflex
My castle
>Only after you say it do you realize how it sounded
Oh yes, I'm sure it is
>She sarcastically replies
No seriously! In fact, let me...
>You start walking off down a hallway to a set of stairs
Wait! Where are you going? We'll be lost!
>She cries out, but still follows you
>You eventually find your way to the door
>You open it, and are met with the balcony
>At first you were confused, but then you remember
>You motion for Chrysalis to step out with you, which she does only after promising you'll make sure she won't fall
>Then you close the door, wait a few seconds, and open it again
Aha
>You remark as you are faced with the impossible stairs
>Slowly but surely, you make your way to the top
>To the sideways door
>And you open it
>When she steps in, Chrysalis does a double take at the painting
That's...! That's the Immortal''s Lake!
>The what?
That's a long lost piece of art made by the first immortal, after he discovered it hundreds of millennia ago
>But.. You've been there!
>It's one of those fragments of memory, but you can still recall the vivid image of the place
>Somehow, somewhen, you were there
I... I've been there...
>You say aloud without thinking too much about it
>You're still trying to figure out how
That's... Impossible