"Hey! There is anyone out there?"

"Yup! Can you feel it too?"

"Something has changed... I feel a tremor, a shock, a strange excitement. Something is no longer the same as before, outside our protective shell."

"Speaking of spores... is it normal that it's cooler? Indeed, moist. And softer! Help! What happens?"

"Oh, joy! Our time has finally come! After aeons of exhausting waiting, we are blessed by the salvific arrival of the precious watery nectar!"

"Eh? Um… ok, as you say. Here, however, everything is flaking, I can't stand inside anymore... I'm afraid... here it is, the spore is broken."

"We do not let fear grip us, we have survived the inclement weather of our wicked step-mother nature precisely to prepare us for an event of this kind."

"Instead of talking so much, look! It’s gorgeous! How big and clear!"

"Ah, to finally be able to loosen the limbs, no longer forced by the narrow space! Ah, to be able to taste the copious oxygen dissolved in the iridescent and silvery expanse! Ah, the colors that tickle eyes too accustomed to the darkness!"

"So this is the famous water? Gorgeous! You can swim in it in any direction!"

"Admire our world, the one for which the inscrutable creative hand has shaped us..."

"Oops! Something just swam in my mouth and I ate it. Delicious!"

"...the long wait, patience refined by use, finally rewarded by the preciousness of the changing liquid shine..."

"Shut up a little and eat! These little things come out from all sides, you're losing them."

"Oh! Scrumptious! The circle of life resumes, they must have come out of spores waiting for water just like us. Their short life is a source of energy and pleasure for us, fate is bizarre."

"Bleah! Don't eat those bits of not swimming stuff massed down, they're very hard and don't taste any good."

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"Look, but... we've been swimming around here for a while. Where do you think water ends?"

"I notice that the impulse to discover also lies in your soul, that’s honorable! We were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge. Now that the hunger of the body is satisfied, that of the spirit urges us to experience the limits of our knowledge."

"As you said. Moreover, by now the little things to eat are almost finished. There are some things that swim above the ceiling, I've tried but that's not water. It's lighter and more transparent, I can't swim in it. They do, though. They rest on the ceiling and lay eggs. I assume we could continue eating those if we don't move."

"Now that you have made the seed of curiosity germinate in my soul, I cannot bear to remain idle. Come on, let's swim orienting ourselves with the bright light that embraces us from above. Let's push the boundaries of the known world!"

"Uh! Oh! We can’t pass. So many of those hard things we don't eat, they're higher than the ceiling. So the world ends here?"

"It would be a cruel mockery of fate, if that were the case. What is the point of having such an excellent mind if we had no goals to overcome? I believe that by applying a fair amount of pressure at this point, we could move the obstacle..."

"Careful! All is collapsing!"

"No fear, my impulsive companion, we are unharmed! Here, the turbidity is settling already, revealing to our eyes what lies beyond the temporary border... oooh, flabbergasting!"

"Wow! Water is really everywhere! I don't see the end!"

"What a vastness! And what unfathomable depth! One feels annihilated in front of the majesty of the cosmos! With immense emotion I am going to take this small step in our new..."

"Watch out!"

CHOMP!

"Holy crap! What was that? Huge! Fuck! Chatterbox is gone... no fucking way I’ll go out there, I prefer to stay here in the shallows forever. Too bad, I will have to look for another of my kin. My eggs won't fertilize themselves."

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This is my entry for Tell A Story To Me contest, run by @calluna for @bananafish.

The photo belongs to me.

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