It felt good be outside again, I did have to remove and store the clothing that I didn't need to wear anymore, like my hoodie, and roll up my sleeves again but it was worth it.

I looked up when I felt the wall behind me shake, only to see Trico's head appear from a hole higher up than the one I used, he leapt from the hole, running towards the sunlight.

I dropped down from the ledge and I ran after him, Trico came to a stop and he roared. I could see a tower in the distance and various structures around it, Trico stood up on his back legs and he just kept on roaring at the tower, flapping his wings. They looked damaged and nothing like the wings of birds that I saw around my neighbourhood.

That felt like a lifetime ago now, even though I did not know how much time had passed, but maybe Jack knew the answer to that question...

But I had to find him before I could ask him that.

But didn't Jack tell me about how time works in these games earlier?

And why, whenever I try to remember that, my head hurts?

What's wrong with me? Is this a side effect from becoming a child again or side effects from taking the place of the Boy from The Last Guardian?

The only way to move on from this area was to use a series of ledges that left no room for error. It was the same for the rocks that followed them, which Trico used and rusty looking chains had been attached to the cliffside through a series of metal hooks that had been hammered into the rock.

I turned around to see Trico hop from one pile of rocks to another, the rock piles were unstable and they almost fell apart but they remained standing.

The ledge that I was using came to an end and the only way to reach the next one was to hang from the chain. I reached up and I grabbed onto the chain before I stuck my feet into some cracks in the rocks.

I crossed the gap like that, I could hang like the Boy but I don't want to risk the chance that I would hurt my shoulders and have that wound hinder me throughout the game. It could also still be there when I grew up again, which could hold me back if I ended up facing Anti at the end of the game.

And don't give me that look, I know that you are doing that but according to video game logic that can and it will happen, okay?

So I was going to stick to what I knew.

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The chains finally came to an end and I was standing on semi-solid ground, Trico had joined me there and I was free to look around a bit.

There was no real boundary to this little piece of what could have been an upper floor to the ruined temple that this place seemed to be.

There was no ground underneath us, it was long gone but on the other side, it was still there.

But above it, there was a wooden barricade of some sort, next to some pillars that was crumbling. I wasn't sure of what to do when the mirror started to glow.

I looked at it before I looked back at the barricade, was it possible?

I grabbed the mirror and I pointed it at the barricade, I heard the lightning before I saw it.

It crashed into the barricade, destroying it and the support underneath the right pillar and that pillar collapsed, falling towards us.

The top end of it crashed near me and the shockwave from that rippled across the tiny piece of stonework, causing me to fall over. The bottom end of the pillar continued to collapse, slipping down until it came to a halt on the floor below us.

I stood up, the crashing pillar had caused our little piece of floor to crack near the cliff wall. I had to use it to cross the gap, the entire makeshift bridge was unstable and shaky as I made my way down it.

I reached the end and I looked back to see how Trico was going to get across, I thought that he would jump across the gap but he used the Pillar too.

There was a small staircase leading away from this place, it led to a room where the only exits were small arch shaped doorways.

Two of them had been covered by metal grating.

They didn't lead outside, just to a large room, lit by torches.

Entire sheets of metal grating were scattered across the room and this room had a second floor walkway surrounding it.

It was like I was walking through a throne room but at the end of it, instead of a throne, was a door with light shining through a crack in it.

I turned around when I heard a noise behind me, only to laugh when I saw that it was Trico trying to follow me. He was so cute but just like Jack, I don't have enough butter to help him get in here.

I had to find another way.

"Now, if I remember this part of the game correctly, there should a staircase around here." I muttered to myself.

The staircase took me to the location of the former barricade.

"Turicur!"

My voice echoed throughout this place and I waited but, he didn't come.

I sighed. This was going to take a while.

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The door was not a door, it was a window. I found this out when I started to take a look around but the only thing I found so far was a trapped barrel.

I ended up walking back to where the pillar bridge was, there had to be a way to get Trico up there. "I guess that I can go back there and try again, maybe you'll listen to me this time." I petted Trico's nose after I said this, I really wanted to find Jack, but I didn't know where he was.

Trico did manage to get up there, eventually, after he crossed the pillar bridge again and he jumped from the other side.

The barrel was liberated from it's prison, thanks to some lightening, and Trico got his num nums.

The second floor walkway now looked like a series of ledges, since I was able to get to them now. It took some more Trico parkour but I soon had a grip on the first one.

I had to climb up that one, and two more, before I could walk along a longer ledge to reach a climbable chain.

The chain took me up even higher.

I went left and I found a passageway out of here, I went back and and I looked down at Trico.

I opened my mouth to call for him but what came out of my mouth wasn't English, it was the language spoken in the game.

It probably was a side effect of replacing the Boy, just like his markings, it had to be.

Trico made the jump and we made our way along the passageway until we reached another wooden barricade. I fed Trico a barrel that I found in a dead end passageway connected to the one that we were using after his lightening destroyed the barricade.