The pillar of light encasing the tower portal and that could only be seen only when one is closer to it brightened briefly.
Yami who is sitting on wooden block at one corner saw this, she also saw Skylar materialized from the light. And excitedly she moved closer to the tower portal and stood in front of it as Skylar desends from it.
"Yami, don't tell me you have been waiting here all this while." Skylar questioned as he moves closer to her.
"Hihihi.. What do you think. (Sniff Sniff)" She hugged Skylar who has reached in front of her- wrapping her hands around him, and sniffed him. "One cherub, one unique beast and one celestial... Hmm..."
Yami raised her head and looked at Skylar, making eye contact with him before she continued. "Sky, did you leave the continent?"
What continent is this one also talking about.
Patting her on the head lovingly, he stared piercingly into her pitch-black eyes and smiled at her also lovingly, before she answered her. "I was at the tower with aquitances. Thank you for waiting."
"Eh!.. Hihihi." A little surprised by his words, she giggled, then disengaged from him and locked eyes with him again. "Sky, something about you has changed. Did you listen to the music of angel."
"Woah!" Skylar's eyes widened in surprise, as he nods his head in acknowledgement severally.
She is fantastic.
With his eyes staring ay her smiling face, he stretched his left hand and pinched her chubby fair cheek. "Yami, how did you know i was with an angel?.. You even know i listened to her sing."
At Skylar's probing question laid with a gentle voice, still smiling with her hands behind her and her eyes on the green earring on his left lobe, Yami giggled. "Hihihi... Its the scent. I can pick up trails of energy easily and identify them. I am great right?"
She asked with expectation in her big pitch-black eyes that has returned to look at his, and Skylar replied her with an acknowledging nod and a smile. Then she continued.
"Hihihi... And also your current spiritual frequency matched that of a host of angels. I have seen it somewhere before..."
Pausing briefly, she looked at Skylar's left hand that holds a badly carved iridescent statue.
"Sky, what's that on your hand?"
"This guy." Skylar held the strange statue closer to her in other to let her have a closer view.
"This i think is supposedly a failed sculpture of a divine being." As he speaks, he rotates the statue, making different angle of it available for thier view. "I won it from the coin wheel... We will decorate Ila shrine with it."
"Hmm?..." Yami who was looking at the statue with suspicion in her lucid eyes sighed as she makes eye contact with Skylar.
Is there something we missed. Is the statue useful. Skylar confused by Yami's strange behavior activated his spiritual eye and looked carefully again at the statue that appears to be an ordinary mass of etheric energy under spirirual vision.
There is nothing strange here, its as useless as ever.
Deactivating his spiritusl vision, his eyes caught Yami's outstretched hand.
"?" Confused by this, he showed her the 'what' face in order to make her vocalize her action.
"Hihihi... Give it to me, i will take it to the shrine."
"Ohh..." Skylar now understanding her, sighed, and passed her the strange statue. "You and this your giggling..."
"Hihihi..." She giggled again, cutting his words short. Then by skipping, she heads to the end of the building where the outline of a large door on its crystal glass wall is.
...
After Yami exit the building- lavender guild lock-up garage;
Skylar with curiousity in his eyes starts going around the place, checking out the suspended sky vehicles and vessels that are parked meticulously and well positioned relative to one another.
Standing in front of one of the sky vehicle, one that look like a cruiser boat— black, stylish and beautiful in appearance; he knocked on its surface, and seeing it not ringing like he expected, he starts to feel the material its made of with his hand cloaked with natural energy.
So everything here so far is either made of wood or glass... or both... (Knock) This one unlike the earlier one is clearly a tougher and denser type of wood. "Hmm..." I think i get it now. These different types of wood can perfectly replace any metal or alloy, some of them even look like metals up close...
"Sky, i am baaaack."
Yami's sweet and silken voice, her last word over emphasized, interrupted Skylar's examination of the sky vehicle in front of him. And responding to it, he turned around, and in front of him stood Yami who appears to have just reached close to him.
"That's groaker number five." Yami smiling as she stands very close in front of him, glanced behind him at the sky vehicle he was checking out. And not giving him the opportunity to reply, she grabbed his arm and tugged it. "Let's go to the executive building. I want to show you something."
"Okay." Skylar without an objection replied and allowed her to lead him out of the crystal glass building as she holds his arm under hers.
***
At this hour in the safe zone; the light of the colossal purple moon as it descends with the intention to loom over all below like it usually do evey cycle, blends in a fantastical manner together with the natural orange illuminaton of the safe zone that is slowly waning as this purple moon gets closer to the fantastical world sprawled below it— A world of super large cities arranged in sectors within blocks along a perfect circular stretch of land that goes round the colossal tower that is standing tall at the center of the world- the safe zone.
And illuminated by this fantastical blend of light, is a colorful and fantastical garden situated on the roof top of lavender guild executive building which is also the building where Skylar currently resides. And at one of the edge of this roof top- the one that faces the back view of the building, is Skylar with Yami beside him as they lean on the wooden balustrades that hems the roof top.
Situated behind this two is a large arch-shaped trellis that display a purple flower vine that looks like wisteria, and to their left and right each is a large flowering shrub identical to camellia growing from a gap in the crystal glass floor of the roof top.
"So that rustic building is you guy's shrine?"
Skylar standing to Yami's left has his eyes trained on a chapel-like building that is browning or the wood its made of is brown in color, and that is located behind the garage and therefore behind the executive building on top of which they stand now.
And on this building Yami who is very close beside Skylar lands her focus after she heard him.
"Yes... That's how Ila wants it." She replied him.
"Hmm... I see."
Skylar replied, his elbows on the balustrades and his palms holding his cheeks. Then he shifted his focus from the peculiar plain-looking shrine in front of him to the dome shaped lock-up garage- the garage they were in earlier, and that is situated between the executive building and the shrine.
The garage is even way more good looking than the shrine. What is Ila thinking.
He once again look at the shrine before he shifted his focus to a building directly beside it- a building on its left side and about a couple hundred meters from it.
"Yami, what's that building about."
Yami as she heard him also shift her focus to the u-shaped building of obvious seven floors that faces the shrine and is made of white carved wooden frame structure with its exterior trained with colorful flower vines, and crystal glass walls, with some of the crystal glass opaque, some stained and others transparent like they are not there, according to the choice of whomever occupy the enclosure they wall.
"That building is where the nursing mothers and some pregnant mothers we care for stay. We call it the nursing residence."
She replied, then leading Skylar's gaze, she looked at another building to the right of the shrine that is identical to the nursing residence in both design and architecture, but with five floors and a few other small buildings around it.
"That one is the maternity center. The other pregnant players, those about to give birth stay there. And its where most of our members work... Ila is the head nurse there. Hihihi..."
"Hmm... I see." Skylar responded. Then he looked at the last building of the five main buildings that is located a bit far behind the shrine- a twelve storey cloud-reaching building, one also identical to the others in architecture and design. But unlike the others, circular in shape, just like a greek colossieum.
"Yami, that one?"
Understanding Skylar's Inquiry after she heard him and upon following his line of sight with her own that now also lay on the building more than a kilometer high as it almost pierce the cloud, she replied:
"Its our faction residence. Its where our members temporarily stay, including some of our officers."
"Hmm... Okay. But why are the floors of all the buildings so tall?" Skylar asked as he scrutinized the flower fields separating the five enormous buildings- a carefully designed flower field that features different types of exotic flower plants including brightly shinning ones, several tens of meters tall flowering plants and a few super tall flowering trees among others.
"You mean the standard ceiling height?" Yami inquired.
"Yeah, why are they like that?"
Skylar replied and inquired as his eyes scan a part of the colorful flower vine trained or growing all over the exterior part of the wooden frame structure of the guild residence just like it is for the wooden frame structure of the other buildings excluding the shrine and the dome-shaped garage that is made of crystal glass only.
"Its because of the building code the tower gave... Just like how they expect us to follow the architectural style a safe zone pioneer chooses, they also expect us to build according to the minimum ceiling height, which is a hundred mita for the first ring, three hundred meters for the second ring, and... That's all we know for now."
Yami replied. Then Skylar nodded in acknowledgement.
"I see... But who is this safe zone pioneer?"
"Hihihi..." Yami giggled after she heard Skylar's question. Then she propelled herself with the help of the flat wooden banister she leans on and lands sitting on it.
"Guess?" She said with a grin on her face as she readjust her black skirt and posture, sitting comfortably on the banister, and then she made eye contact with Skylar who is now to her right and who seems to be reading her face for the answer.
"Its someone surprising."
She already implies its someone i know, and this person must have a simplistic taste and a love for nature if she's really the one that chose this architectural look and design...
She should also be fond of flowers and color purple maybe, and Anna Lu also said its someone from their guild... Then maybe its her...
"Its her right?" Skylar after his conclusion smiles brightly at Yami. And she also smiles back at him in response.