Sparkly Rock

Here’s a tidbit for you, princess: Sparklies were the very very first rock there ever was. Fact.

Fact?

Fact. Heard that from the mouth of a particularly senior Zillot Fabulist, we did. They always said that when Patufet was trying to win the hand of Petronella, her father sent him to pluck stars from the sky. When he came back and presented her pa with a bag full of stars, he was given the hand of Petronella, and the stars used to stuff the mattress of their marital bed.

Seriously?

Would I lie to you? So the compacted matter that resulted, when the mattress was shaken out, rolled down into the caverns and settled. Making Sparkly rocks the very first, most important rock.

It’s funny, because I heard…

You heard wrong, treacle. Now, you are dismissed: Take a little sliver of silvery history, if you’ve got that fancy pick of yours handy.

I just might.

Do. You can’t tell, but I’m totally winking at you right now.

Yikes.

Sparkly Rock

Come closer, come closer.

Close enough?

There’s no such thing. You smell like flowers!!!

Thanks?

Not a problem, hotstuff. Now. Look at me, look closely. Gaze deeply into the compacted complex depths of my mineral beauty. What do you see?

A rock.

Oh. That’s all?

A slightly sparkly rock?

Oh. You big tease. What you MEANT to say, if you weren’t so busy playing hard to get, was that you can see the heart of a million stars, boiled down into a perfect sparkling mass. THAT was what you meant to say.

Um…

Oh YOU! Stop flirting with me! Honestly! You’re incorrigible!

If you say so…

Sparkly Rock

I knew you’d be back. You can’t keep away. It’s my irresistible star-power sucking you in…

Actually, I just happened to be passing…

OOOH you TEASE, you. Now, where was I?…

Something about stars? And Zille?

And you pretend you’re not hanging on to every word, you little maniac!

Anyway…

Well, Zille didn’t just steal the stars. Zille didn’t need to. Friendly, enraptured by her beauty, imagined the stars to rain down in clusters upon her, while he clung hard to the moons above, shouting protestations of love, and telling her to do with them as she wished, and create for herself the most beautiful rocks she could imagine.

And that would be you?

Well GOODNESS, you’re not backwards in coming forward, are you? Why yes that WOULD be me, thanks for noticing. You little flatterer, you.

I… Oh, whatever.

Sparkly Rock

Ooooooh, it’s YOU!

Yes.

I was just thinking about you, princess.

Pri…?

Well, not about you specifically. More about Glitches in general.

Right?…

You know, this might be the first age, but you were not the first two-legged blips to pop from the combined minds of the giants.

Really?!?

Oh, you should have seen the others though. Dark clouds over their heads, some of them, wouldn’t smile for love nor tickling, swords in hand, beards full of grizzle. Bleh! Filthy, they were!

But…

Oh, they didn’t last. There were more, too. Shouty ones, twitchy fingered short ones, they weren’t around for long, I’ll tell you that. I’ll tell you this, too…

What’s that?

You’re FAR more my type, handsome.

Of course.

Sparkly Rock

Oh! It’s you! I knew you couldn’t keep yourself away.

I was just walking past, actually.

Tsh!!! They all say that.

Because it’s true?…

You reckon?! No! The stardust in your tiny organs is magnetically drawn to my sparkly oriness. I won’t hear any different.

*Sigh*.

Whatever, treacle. Point is, you and I? Running into each other? Clearly meant to be. It is a conflagration just like the coming together of the eleven random giants in this mighty age of giants. And just like this one, singular era of giants, our love shall be giant, like a…

Riiight. Can you go back a bit?

Hmn? Ah. Yes, my chewy little pickle, for you anything. The stardust in your tiny organs…

The bit about the single age of the giants?

Oh. Well, there are eleven giants, who all came into being at once, shortly after this world did. They exist to keep the thing in balance… but the giants didn’t create the world.

No?

No, Flossy! The world created the giants, of course!…

Of course.