More Peculiarities

The single object actually on the water far below - was a ship: a big ship, and mostly dark-blue, with plenty of shiny glass, unlike any Bell had ever seen before, somehow powering along, as it seemed to be moving effortlessly across the lighter coloured waters, making little waves as it heading slightly away.

That has to confirm it now... there are others here...

However Bell was getting a little dizzy from the sheer distance below her, that she could no longer watch it move anymore, so crawled backward from the cliff, without losing sight of it completely.

If only I'd bothered to bring my phone...

Even though the modern devise was pretty useless in the reception-less area she'd been searching in before, it did have a camera - with a zoom, and that would have come in real handy right about now for both reasons.

Were those little people standing on it down there...? It was too hard to tell...

If the small specks on the deck were people, it meant two things; that ship was rather huge and she was even higher in the sky than she cared to know about too.

There's no way they'd notice little me, way up here, even if I somehow tried to get their attention...

Bell gave up on the rapidly moving vessel, which headed for destinations unknown, and resumed to her curious walking about on 'her island'.

Eventually another smaller floating chunk of 'earth' glided over, and this time Bell was ready, stopping just beside a bigger dull tree, waiting for the next show to occur, but just as the light started to fade, she heard another nearing buzz of another giant insect again, so froze up when it casually drifted about.

As the shade took hold, the trees again burst into sweet glowing life, and it appeared that Bell wasn't the only one waiting for it either, as the giant bee went into action, landing on the nearest branch, and started quickly scooping up all the beautiful flowers it could.

It's gathering them up... I wonder if they're its food...?

Bell also carefully plucked one of the smaller and lighter ones just beside her, and looked into it's fine central petals, that vaguely reminded her of strawberries.

Maybe I can take you with me...

The suns light returned, and the flowers all around retreated again into the cracks of the trees, while the pretty plucked one quickly faded, before the lovely flower folded in onto itself, shrank up to the size of a walnut and went firm, then finally got super brittle and simply flaked apart in Bell's open hand as she watched on.

Guess not...

Meanwhile, the big bee contently wavered away, with its collection safely tucked between its big hairy legs and smothered tightly to it's dark belly, protected enough to remain in shape and not wither.

Mine practically turned to dust... seems like it really doesn't like the light...

The insect lazily want on its way and disappeared before Bell's distracted thoughts returned to herself, about her own survivability in this weird place, since she'd not seen a single drop of water at all here, let alone food, and all her previsions for her day of searching had been in her backpack - left behind in her regular world.

Perhaps there is some that I just haven't found... yet...

She guessed she could always double back and potentially go back through that shimmering pool, or at least that was the hope Bell had, guessing that it had in fact been some sort of 'doorway' to get her to where she stood now. With a slight peace in her mind, she resumed her exploration, looking about this curious forest, until she came across another oddity.

A small, almost perfect ball of rock sat on top of a slightly basin like one, of a much darker shade, just beside a couple of other 'normal' stones, in a clearer patch of short grass.

Hum... that sort of stands out...

It didn't seem very natural, but what really did here, so she investigated further, coming over to find the hand sized, light-grey rock was lift-able, but as she gently picked up the seemingly unremarkable sphere rock to inspect it, something else unexpected happened.

Huh... how unusual...

A low, but undeniable and constant hum echoed through the area, apparently coming from the darker underside rock, while also giving Bell a detectable, slight vibration in the ground under her feet too.

Stones that make sounds...

Bell razed the small stone above the bigger one a bit more and heard the mild hum become a a clear sound, almost like a steady bird's call, before lowering it back to the other stopped the noise all together.

I wonder...

Picking it up again, Bell this time brought it up to her chest height, hearing the 'chirp' rapidly rise in pitch, but the moment she moved the round rock away in a different direction from it's lower companion, she nearly dropped it due to the harsher shriek it started to make.

"Ah!"

She let the smaller stone crack to the other, where it stayed and thankfully stopped the racket as well.

"Well you won't work as a souvenir either..."

She said to the now quiet stones, then with nothing more to be gained from them, she left them be and kept going.

Eventually Bell stumbled to another edge of her section of hovering ground, finding another slightly captivating sight of many more, layered over the pale-blue expanse of water far below, but the view wasn't what made her stop with surprise this time.

Under Bell's boots was a thin, but unmistakable path - made from many little pressed down pebbles and stones, that winded along this cliff's edge, and as Bell's eyes followed it along, she found what looked like a constructed stone structure, not too far away.

These have to have been made... clearly they're not for the bees, so someone had to have done this...?

Excited by the prospect of meeting a 'native inhabitant' to this peculiar land, Bell briskly walked along the trail toward the round building.