#shellrees

It’s a bit weird, actually seeing snow for once in his life, but he’s been getting used to it. In all his life, he never really had gotten to actually see snow before living in Hive City. Back in his time, it had just been too warm in most places for snow to even fall. It wasn’t like it completely didn’t exist, but the way global warming had kept things relatively warm throughout most of the year, there were very few places that got it.

The nautilus grabs out a handful of chips from the bag in his lap. Like everything else on the blanket, they’re spiral shaped. He can hardly even remember where he got these curled up chips. Almost everything that he’d found with that spiral shape ended up being some pastry and it was almost overbearing.

The point was to have spiral foods, but it seemed like places hardly sold more than spiral-shaped sweets. There were cinnamon rolls, crescent rounds, sushi rolls, little spiral cakes, and the chips, and so on. He has some of cinnamon swirl bread and butter in the small cooler he also brought, but it’s hard to call that much different from the other foods he’s brought.

Still.

As creatures who live often live lengthy lives, nautiluses– either in large groups or alone –visit the ocean side, recognizing it as the home and resting place of most of their ancestors. There, they share quieter meals and leave behind food (often baked goods in spiral shapes, much like their shells, such as rolls) for those lost. These are often washed away by the waves and consumed by those that have adapted to the new sea and refuse to leave the sea waters. Candles used to be left out in the sand overnight as well to light the way to afterlife. More recently electrical lanterns have been accepted as well. On that day, it has become tradition to reflect on oneself, life, and future as part of the process to better oneself. Most music on that day consists of bells, piano, or other instruments that are able to give a soft ‘twinkling’ sort of sound.