Where has time gone? A Story

Awake and standing I stare down towards my moving feet, but how could I be moving with out willing it. my brain still confused from the backwards day before I try and pull my mind out of the fog left behind from sleep. staring at my feet and feeling them move I start to notice that I truly am not the one moving myself, for my muscles are not working. still focused on the oddity of being able to move with out actually using my legs I try to work against this motion. only to find out that I may be able to slow down but not stop myself. “ Don’t fight it and just let the buggers do their job” a gruff voice said. “ Who’s there” I yelled surprised I had not yet taken in account my surroundings, and in doing this had not noticed that I was out of the transparent forest and alot closer to the mountains than I was. “How long was I sleeping?” I asked the gruff voice of a creature that must have been behind me because I did not see anything but the narrow pathway through what must have been boulders. They seemed to be made of semi-translucent and fully translucent stones of varying color, which made the pathway turn colors as we moved. Soon there was a crossing of sorts in this immense boulder field there were seven new paths each with its own color pattern. There was more room here than in the first pathway so we stopped; well my legs stopped without my consent. “ Ok little plurips off ya go I think this one will be able to travel on his own” the voice said as it rounded to my field of vision. The creature that I saw was strange indeed; having a very translucent blue skin on a very human like form, there were some differences though. There was a clear bone like structure coming off the forearm and spine, and what looked like the remnants of a tail off of the base of the neck. After staring at her for along time and she at me I broke the silence after I saw what had been moving me. The plurips as she had called them looked like worms the same color as my skin, they must have acted like braces on my legs to keep me up while I slept. “ You can stand on your own I see” said the very interesting creature “ y-yes I guess I can, what is your name?” I said in a soft voice still startled by her. “ By name you mean what I am called, well it is Avrioletta” she stated with an almost musical quality to her voice “and what is your calling?” Well since she apparently had dropped the gruffness in her voice I could actually here the feminine in her voice. My calling, they way she put that was peculiar, “It has been awhile since I had to use my name, since I have been wandering along time” taking a breath “let me see, umm Marcus trist is what I am called” Speaking with a soft voice again I said “yes Marcus trist.” Avrioletta look at me with a questioning expression “ That is an odd thing to have more than one calling.” “how about I call you Trist, would you like that” she looked very happy with herself for giving me just one calling. “ Ok I guess that we will just go with that; I never liked Marcus anyways” I said with a smile on my face. Pleased with the results she proceeded to the nearest path, the pure blue colored one on the right of the junction. Holding something out into the light that she had gotten out of a pack she had on the ground, it started out blue like the light from the path but slowly turned black with a blood red ribbon in it. “ what is it you are doing Avrioletta?” “shhh you musnt bother one while they are in the midst of a path choosing or we may pick the wrong and dangerous path””just wait there until I am done, ok Trist” At this I proceeded to clam up until she had checked them all. first the blue, then the red, yellow, teal, gold, then green. “ ahh this is the one we shall take through the shifting light field, its the only one that the lead stone matches colors with” This place obviously had no specific path through it, so we walked on in silent observation.