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Maybe I should’ve seen this coming. I will admit, getting close to the weird portal thing wasn’t the best idea. Especially considering there were other watchers nearby. Especially especially considering that the watchers nearby happened to hate me.
Well, regrets won’t get me anywhere.
Speaking of anywhere, that’s probably where I ended up. Which is to say, I had no clue where I was. I hadn’t opened my eyes yet, and honestly I was rather nervous to.
Even without seeing anything, I knew I wasn’t in the void. The void is freezing cold, and being there for even a minute makes you feel nauseous. I would know, I’ve been sent there many times. To be fair, I did deserve it.
After some time spent contemplating my life, I sighed heavily and sat up from where I had been laying. Then I forced my eyes open, which was quite a feat. Immediately, I squinted at the light. It was blinding, it only took a second for my eyes to ache. However, the pain wasn’t the most prominent thought going through my head.
What place even has this much light?
I figured I might as well try to get a sense of where I was. I blinked rapidly for a few seconds, trying to adjust my eyes to the brightness. Once I could see somewhat properly, I looked around. The first thing I saw was blue, only interrupted by the occasional smattering of white.
Ok, I must’ve hit my head really hard.
Turning my head away from the strange swath of blue, I tore my gaze down to look at things closer to me. There was green around me that stretched for quite a distance.
Really, really hard then.
Despite knowing that this was likely a result from the concussion I most definitely had, I continued examining the area. Then, my eyes locked on something in the distance.
A tree.
Suddenly, the pieces snapped together. The blue was the sky, and the green was grass. The tree was a tree.
“Oh my gods, what?! I’m in the overworld!”
Without thinking I jolted up from the ground. I swayed as dizziness overtook me, almost making me fall down.
Oh right, concussion.
I took in a deep, steadying breath. It did nothing to help, but at least I remembered to breathe. After the dizziness passed, I stood up straight and went back to examining my surroundings. Despite the lack of anything around me other than grass and trees, I stared open-mouthed.
It had been so, so long since I’ve seen trees. Since I looked up at a bright blue sky and felt grass underneath me. After a moment of taking in my surroundings, I realized something.
Empearal is going to be so mad at me… I’m screwed. I wonder how long I’ll be here before he comes to get me.
Just as I bit my lip worrying about that, I heard footsteps behind me. I whirled around and ignored how dizzy that made me feel. Standing there was a human. I didn’t pay too much attention to how he looked, but I did note that he was ridiculously tall and had a moustache. What I was more focused on was his body language: he was staring at me rather awkwardly and slightly shifted his weight often.
There was a long stretch of silence. During that time many thoughts went through my head, including but not limited to: ‘ wait is he going to kill me ’, ‘ oh right, he’s just human he can’t do anything ’, ‘ oh no am I in watcher form ’, ‘ no I would’ve felt my wings ’, and last but not least ‘ what does he want though? ’
Finally, before I could finish getting completely lost in my thoughts, he spoke.
“Uh… hi. What are you doing here?” He coughed before continuing. “Oh, that was rather rude. Sorry about that. I’m Mumbo, who are you?”
I stared back at him wordlessly as I thought.
What should I say? Do I tell him my actual name? No, that would be stupid. What should I call myself then? I’m pretty sure Brian is a human name, right? Or is it Grian…
“Oh I’m, uh… Grian. Yup, that’s me.”
He looked incredulous, but didn’t comment on my lack of communication skills.
“Well Grian, it’s nice to meet you. I hope you don’t mind me asking, how did you get here? I don’t think X whitelisted anyone… but we can go ask him”
Wait, that must be the admin… I am so, so screwed. Admins hate watchers. Good luck to me
“... sounds, uh, great.” I winced at how awkward that sounded. “Could we, um, not do that though?”
Mumbo gave me a weird look.
“Well, I already sent him a message so… he’ll be here shortly.”
A moment after he said that, I heard a rocket and the swoosh of an elytra. I looked up and saw someone with a helmet on, presumably X.
Welp, guess this is it. I hope Pearl gives me a nice eulogy.