>>38923873>[X] Stay awakeYou see it, the rocks giving way, and light comes pouring through the cracks, brighter and brighter. The rush of water soon follows from under your feet.
As the rocks follow a new path laid out under your feet, the rushing water jostles you about. Caught in a dormant underground river, you struggle to keep your head. Eventually, the water dies down, and your senses pull themselves together. Wet and confused, you look all around you -- behind you is no longer a sign of the Hissers trying to get at you. The rocks have smashed them thoroughly. You pull your friends onto the newly formed embankment, and toward where there's more light.
And then it strikes you.
A fertile land at your feet is cupped by mountains as far as the eye can see.
This must be it. The signs are all here. Fertile green lands, that give everything in abundance, and the protection of tall rocky mountains that drive away anyone trying to climb them.
You see a herd of animals in the distance. With a shout, your voice is carried through the mountains.
It's your herd, the Brightmanes, the Amorphoids, the Gammazets, they who hail from Pabstian plains!
A cheering crowd hails you. "They found it, they found it! Yup yup, the Safe Space is here! From legend!"
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The triggerings were terrible spells chanted by the hissers to turn the hopeful, fertile lands of the tribes into putrid, mucky nightmares. People who fall prey to the spells were triggered, poisoned into frozen despair.
But there will be no more triggerings in this protected land.
The Safe Space was everything they hoped it would be. Puppies frolicking in the warm light, endless fields of gummy bears and golden acres of candy corn, enough for everyone's fill.
In here, the special snowflakes would grow up in peace, and their people would flourish, generation after generation, until the peace of their society would one day reach out, and cover all the world...
