I did not sink into a body of water... I rose, splashing out the top of a surface of what I could identify as... milk! Pure milk!
For underneath that surface in the hole lied an inverted subterranean sanctum. I saw the cave ceilings, parallel of Hainei's crust and own geology. I saw spires of rock holding up a ceiling of stalactites as large as towers. I saw light expanding over the horizon. The artificial sky, the bioluminescent "stars" and the light of the Sun shining through all obstacles to illumine this land. I saw a sea of milk stretching as far as the eye could see.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vj0rAG10fn8This is the Land of Milk.
The Cult of Surasira makes its home here. This is their sanctuary, safe from all other places in the world. They lived among this sea of milk, praising their goddess in temples and homes built on the rock faces and barges made for inhabitation among the sea of milk. They had a floating city of barges on the sea's face, though it were not bereft of any land, for the rock faces were grown with bioluminescent flora given life by the Milk of kindness itself.
Her followers danced, and they painted themselves. They wore bright colors and at the core of their culture, it was a culinary one. The most respected members of this society were the cooks and chefs. they ever strove to become better in Surasira's name. Those who made tonics, those who brewed potions and concoctions. They were exuberating happiness.
Surasira... she is the Cow Goddess. She is the lady of Milk and of Torpor. She governs substances. As in, food and drink falls under her domain. Anything that can be ingested and is edible is her extent. She governs all that is tasty, all that can be eaten... but also, all that is poisonous to consume and all that kills to ingest. Milk, bright white and delicious, and Poison, sickly purple and debilitating. She is the one that rules this. She is also said to be the only deity that the Emperor feared by her followers... something I find very interesting. And I could not wait to meet her myself.
[MAJORDOMO] "Just don't have a meltie when you see her."
'Why would I do that?'
[MAJORDOMO] "..."
'Well...? Why would I...?'
[MAJORDOMO] "..."
'Gonna say or not?!'
[MAJORDOMO] "..."
[JOCO] "I think-"
[MAJORDOMO] "No no, shut up."
Hrrr...
