I'm Lonely

"keep me company for a while"

Seth screams.

"Calm down. Please. I just. Stop screaming. I just."

Like you literally ripped this man from his state of being the heart of his garden of eden

"I'll put you back, just. Okay, okay. Sorry. I was just lonely."

“You can come chill with me. But please. Knock first. The bloodlillies are sensitive to noise.”

“And most of the zone feels my stress”

"I can't leave here in my current state... and my human body is... locked up..."

“Uhhh. So it’s a Skype call”

"I mean... if you gave me a vessel to inhabit when I visit... I guess that would work..."

“Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. We got sap golems now… that’s newer… there’s the flowers… and… uh…”

"That tree is you?"

“Sort of.”

"I can see what happened. I'm surprised the others didn't damn you to eternal suffering like many others I've seen."

“I don’t know. I wished to become everything. Instead I’m the zone. But the zone is growing. So eventually the zone is everything… so… yeah. Could be worse. They still talk to me. I… I can still hear them.”

"Mmmm yes, eventually in that timeline you will encapsulate the entire earth if humanity doesn't find ways to slow you down. Which looking now is.... minimal..."

“That’s cool… that’s cool…”

"They talk to you then? Is it anger? Rage? That one man you shot. He... he certainly changed fate didn't he? You were supposed to die. But something he did... mmm"

“I don’t know. It’s kinda… you know it blurs together after a while. I get lost in the zone… it’s beautiful… it’s wonderful…”

There's an echoing sigh like he understands. "I can understand that. I was... lost in the beauty of the center... and was given this power and role... it's... it's nice... I don't have to fear anything random occurring... when I know every divergence of time."

“I just embrace it… it goes… it does it’s own thing and grows and you see through the eye flowers everything that goes on. And… it’s doing it’s own thing.” There’s a long pause. “I did it.”

"Mmmm?" There's a questioning hum that lingers in the ethereal void of what Theo calls 'home'. "Let me see now... what have you done..."

“I… I’m no longer invisible… it’s nice. The Zone remembers me. It’s nice. Trees of green. Purple flowers too.”

"I can see your past, Seth. I understand your feelings. You aren't invisible to me. You are a beautiful thing that exists and changes over time."(edited)

“…I watch them bloom…” He wasn’t paying attention. “…for me and… you, Artemis… and I think to myself…”

Theodore mouths the words Seth speaks, knowing what is going to be said beforehand. He didn't realize he was doing so mindlessly.

“What a wonderful… World…” Another pause. “I’m tired… the skyscraper is creaking. The concrete is brittle in the city… a lot of things are already asleep… The Zone will grow tomorrow…”

"Shall I return you home? I don't wish to impede your progress anymore than I need to. Though it is a simple enough endeavor to put you back right when I pulled you out."

Another hum.

"It's lonely here..."

He was already asleep. It had to have been exhausting being that much. A body that big that always grows. That harbors countless phenomena.

Theo hums again, deciding to keep his new friend here for a "while" longer. Here time didn't truly work how it did in the physical word.

"Sleep well, friend. You deserve it. Sleep as long as you need here. Grow your strength and show everyone how beautiful you are."