The Arks: Over Heaven

Chapter 3: Intermission

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“So do you wanna swim across the river, or walk around it?” Neddy asked Samuel as they looked at the river ahead of them. It cut through the land until it eventually ended not too far away. Samuel peered into the water and noticed schools of fish swimming by. Some were dark blueish black and had small, derpy eyes, but then a swarm of small hand-shaped red fish swam in, their sharp teeth glinting in the water. Piranhas.

“Don’t you see what’s in there? We’re not swimming across the river,” Samuel replied, “Let’s just walk around. We have all the time in the world.”

Samuel and Neddy took their stroll down the ‘beach’, and as they did Neddy brushed his hand across the many unique flora of the grass slightly inland. Because of the peninsula they were located on, the place they were was moreso a beach than a forest.

Samuel’s eyes darted to Neddy’s hands, and he noticed that he was picking up the berries and fruits of the bushes, along with small fibers that made up the plant.

“What are you doing?” Samuel questioned him curiously.

“Just gathering some berries,” Neddy said, “I noticed them on the way here. You never know when you might need a good snack.”

Neddy stopped his foraging for a moment to look at the berries he had picked up.

“These are some weird berries,” Samuel said, picking a blue one up, “Hey this one looks like a blue raspberry.”

“It looks like a blue raspberry but it’s not,” Neddy replied, “In fact none of these berries are recognizable. I think they’re completely new.”

“Well if they aren’t something that isn’t known to man, we shouldn’t eat them, right?”