Echo, Pt. I - The bridges

This story is about how
By loving yourself you can reach anything you want.



Echo waas just a little boy
Born from a sstar and a planet
Left to learn everything by himself
In a parallel reality, all alone.

The first day, he thought everything he would do was going to be in vain,
bu after felling asleep under a bubble tree his dreams made something out of him.
A cat, came out of his cuphead like leaves become orange in autumn
As he woke up, he realized this cat was his own responsibility, after all he had nothing but the cat itself.

The first day together was a little bit strange, the cat, now named Ego was going round and round from here to there with a suspicious smile that made Echo smile but be frightened at the same time.
Anyway he followed him through the bubble trees trying to remember that dream he had the night before, about his mother and his father, telling him he wouldn't remember anything but being where he is in present moment, and that he would have to learn some specific things by himself, that it wouldn't be easy but it would be greatful in the end.

So Echo followed Ego through the bubble trees forest and came up to a series of platforms with bridges between them. It took Echo's attention that the wooden pieces of this bridges would lit whenever they wanted to, as if they were controlled by an imaginary force. Meanwhile he was sinking in these thoughts, Ego the cat was already walking towards one of the bridges, which made Echo really scared, the bridges didn't look safe at all. Whenever a piece of them turned blue, it would also dissappear, making the bridge impossible to walk through.

So Echo was looking at Ego, really confident, making it through a bridge that was all lit, not changing color like the other ones, after Ego reached the opposite side of the bridge that was too risky to cross, Echo just stood there wondering how a simple cat made it through such a defiating task, and so the cat spoke for the very first time: - We shall pass the bridges we're not afraid of. - he said.

And so, echo reminded himself of all the impossible things that had happened that day and thought it could be true, maybe he was just too scared to cross any of the bridges sorrounding him. His own body was feeling odd, like resistant to what was coming, but for a moment he saw Ego at the other side of the bridge - now technicolor - and felt something new he had not felt before, an impulse to cross the bridge without hesitating about falling, so he moved on and crossed the bridge which pieces would turn yellow as he stood on them.

Of course he was scared, of course he had nothing planned of what happened next, he reached the other side while the last two pieces of bridge dissappeared below his feet.

He took a little breath, and every calculation in his head turned obsolete when he saw, a little sphere coming out of the ground, it was  a sparkly red with what we could say a bit of gold. He looked at it admiring everything, everything even himself who had just completed a task that was even hard for him, but now he had completed it, he did reach the other side of the bridge, though scared.

Ego was looking at the shiny sphere in front of them as well, astonished, but instead of staying just there waiting, approached for it, and when he was close to it he felt enough to reach it. So he did, and took it to his only friend, who was laying on the ground, exhausted.

As soon as the golden-reddish sphere was close to Echo, he stood up and looked at it. and felt a sudden urge to grab it. But when he stretched his arms to catch it, the little thing moved by itself, like it was alive, and went directly into Echo's cuphead.

We have to let these things in - He said automatically - this is courage and I'm feeling it right now. I feel we can cross every bridge without falling or even doubting about it, we can do anything, Ego.

So they crossed every bridge that would take them to a next task, that they didn't know, that they didn't expect or even imagined what it was about. BUt I can tell you something, this cat that he created  with his mind has something betwheen hands, he's planning to take on every single thing that comes across, you can see it in his eyes.