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Moss starts to feel his body again, his arms, his legs...everything feels somewhat numb, it can be described as static that buzzes through the tv when it isn't working. Although he cuts that feeling short as he opens his eyes. He blinks away the blurriness of just waking up and comes face to face with a tall roof made from spruce and as his feeling returns he feels the weight of gravity along with the feeling of laying on wood.
Moss sits up and quickly shuts his eyes and grabs his head. Too fast. He got up too fast. Again .
He looks around and finds himself extremely confused at his surroundings, it's the church, of course it is it couldn't be anything else. He recognizes the triangle pattern of diorite in the oak planks that are the walls, but that's all he did, everything else...is new?? The church is finished, having spruce pews and a small stage, a shelf with candles laying to the left of it and flowers to the right. Two small roses and a Wither rose….weird pattern. Suddenly, he notices the chest lying in front of the stage, how did he not notice it sooner??? He wants to go near but it's surrounded by Wither roses, and he really doesn't feel like dealing with the minor effects of Wither Poison at the moment.
Moss gets up and stretches, curling his fox tail around his leg before hiding it back under his jacket along with putting his ears flat against his head and hiding them with his hair. Someone was obviously awake to build this, and he didn't need them to know. Moss turns around to the entrance and slowly walks through the church, he notices the small room for the entrance that's almost the size of a coat room but instead of coats the walls are lined with shelves of a pattern of Wither roses and roses.
Moss walks out of the church, deciding to walk the path to the community house... well- the path he planned on making anyway. He walks up, expecting to see the usual, no one around but the community Enderman Glatt and their cow Beefy…
It's blown up.
Part of the community house is blown up- WHY is it blown up?!
Sure it was only a small hole but who could've done this?? It wasn't a creeper they needed to trigger to blow up- or maybe it was and someone was here??? But then why didn't they fix it or leave a sign?!
Moss feels paranoia set in, becoming panicked at what could've happened he runs back to his house, he jumps over every small water pit that he can in the rush, he even almost landed in the small lava pit they have right off the hill. However, the paranoia decreases as he sees the outside of his house, no damage, none of his animals dead. He lets out the biggest sigh of relief he has felt yet, letting his shoulders drop as he gently moves the loose hairs out of his face.
He walks in and feels his heart stop at the two signs that greeted him right at his doorway.
The jig is up moss man, I made it -Thorn
(Ps. The cake was delicious)
Was it happiness? Was it fear?? Moss couldn't tell what he was thinking, so many thoughts raced through their tired mind. He takes a step back, he can't breath, he can't bring himself to.
Soon he brings himself to let out a shaky breath before running out, he was looking wildy for Thorn's place.
He feels like he has been in circles and he can't find it. Until he sees the second ravine that is….the second ravine in the desert...right near his house.
There are cobblestone stairs leading downwards. Those weren't here before.
Moss decides to descend the stairs, normally with stairs this tall, he would feel very fancy and happy going down them! But right now it feels like a taunt, he feels invisible eyes staring at him and judging his every single move. Then after what feels like twenty minutes he finally reaches the bottom, he knows it certainly wasn't twenty minutes though. Moss turns towards the house, being greeted with tinted windows and a spruce door, with stairs leading up it. It makes him feel small and unworthy.
He despises it.
Moss's eyes widen as he feels a sting on his back and he gets pushed forward, he quickly pulls out Arch Angel which is his trusted crossbow.
Thorn puts her hands in the air "Oh come on, buddy! No need to pull out weapons, I'm just having fun!!" Her red eyes squint as she smiles widely, almost in a friendly way.
Moss feels his whole body relax, partially against his will. "Can't you greet me normally, Thorn?!"
"It was funny ! I know how you like being funny!" Thorn waves it off as she circles Moss, her black dress with faded purple ends following her every move. "You've grown a bit! I'm still taller though."
"I don't care if you're taller." Moss's eyebrows furrow, why wasn't this fun as it used to be???
"Don't lie to me, Moss man~ I know you always hated being shorteeeer!~" Thorn teases in a sing-songy voice, twirling a lock of Moss's hair.
"I guess so….Thorn, did you finish building the church?" Moss doesn't feel like really catching up right now.
Thorn huffs, "Church?? You mean that weird ass building? Nope, too brightly colored."
"What happened to the community house." Moss didn't ask this, no, he stated. He wanted to know.
Thorn lets out a giggle, "Oh! That was my bad, a little TNT accident! C'mon, you know it happens!"
Moss becomes confused, if it was TNT it would have taken out the ground. "Why wasn't the ground damaged?"
"I fixed it up, dumbass."
Thorn...fixed the ground but not the house?? Sure she doesn't know but that was the first build on the SMP, that was Moss's pride and joy, it started the whole roses thing. He felt kind of sick, he needed to go home. "Hey...I actually have to go feed my dogs, could we catch up later??" That wasn't really a lie.
"Ugh, fine !" Thorn gives Moss a sickeningly sweet smile "I'll be waiting, Moss man."
Moss watches as she enters her house, he feels…. extremely sick. He quickly starts to beeline home, before making eye contact with the church….that church….
Moss starts running to it, quickly flying past everything else and he swings open the chest to see a strange sight. A Netherite chestplate...surrounded by Wither roses and roses along with soul torches, it almost looks like a Nether Star. He carefully pulls the chestplate out and observes it.
No one had Netherite.
Who did this??