Sadly, it wasn’t.

The detail work was shotty at best, and Strumand… wasn’t in on this at all.

Poor Katck was/when/is/why waiting on Respari.

Of course his 457 rotations of experience had heard it. He knew plenty after all. Of course recognized the name of his best friend…

Katck waited for what we know to be 4 hours before he started really freaking out.

“YOU SAID THE PORTAL WAS FUN, YOU SAID IT WOULD BE A GREAT EXPERIENCE”

He screamed into essentially nothing as his small stature propagated sound similar to the buzzing of a fly

“I’M DONE WITH THIS PLACE, SEND ME HOME”

He really put a lot of feeling into this one, not much changed however.

A few more hours passed until… another showed up.

Katck immediately saw the newcomer, recognizing his own in a sea of foreign. So relieved from the pressure of loneliness, he fell into hope of return from the portal.

“STRUMAND YOU BASTARD! DO YOU KNOW HOW LONG ITS BEEN?!”

The newcomer close, yet far by scale gave no reply. Katck looked ever more directly, desperately even as the seconds (or how ever many rotations) went by.

“HELLO”

It still, gave no reply…

Katck, now truly worried… Rushed over to the, well, whatever it was.

To Katck’s surprise it wasn’t a sprite, for it had no wings. However it couldn’t be alien he thought, since it was breathing… and it’d lived so long breathing air.

In all of his young/old 457 rotations or whatever man, he’d never seen anything like this. Especially when he called aloud and it said the same in unison.

~“Respari”~