Username & ID: PrincessAlexis #19227
Chicoon participating (link): Aztec
Prompt:
Aztec suddenly stopped trying to climb the tree when Eyes came over and began explaining its history including the fact that it had grown this enormous in 'just' 3 years.
"Three years?! You've been in this maze all that time? Oh my, I really need to get out of here, this doesn't feel right at all..." Aztec began to panic, worried that he would never see the other Chicoons again. Dear Reverie, whom he was madly in love with, little Firefly, who treated him as though he were the king, even Demi who spent more time alone than with others, how he wanted to see Demi again and give them a great big hug!
He hung his head, no longer excited about the wonderful fruit, but he listened all the same to the first half of the riddle:
"Though halls may lie within the passageways one direction rings true.
Go above and beyond once more to view the world anew"
Wait, one direction rings true... That seemed about right. "You know every time I walked down a path I seemed to have turned right. If I could go back through those same intersections and go left instead, perhaps I could find my way out of here!" He thought for a moment, "But I turned left a time or two with Mystra, and that would complicate things. When I let her lead using that map, I broke the pattern."
He looks to Eyes, and suddenly instead of seeing an alien form overcome by parasites, he sees an ally who might want to go home just as much as he does.
codeword:TheRiddler