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The voiceover is below, sorry about the drawings, and hope you enjoy at least a little with the story :)

Axel was a young man who liked to live in his little world. But it was difficult for Axel to live unseen because he was a little tall for that. That's why he admired things bigger than himself, and things bigger than him reminded him that he was as insignificant as a cloud of dust in the universe. Although Axel seemed confident, sometimes he couldn't take his eyes off the ground. Maybe the reason of it was difficult to make eye contact, but he did not tell people about his feelings and dreams, instead, he joked a lot.

There were the things Axel had to do. He had to work for a living and spend time with his family and friends. After doing the things he had to do during any day, Axel wanted to retreat home and isolate himself. When someone left him alone, Axel would not be sad, on the contrary, he would be happy. That's how he liked it.

Until one day, this light showed up. Axel was shocked. This was tooo unrealistic for his pretty realistic thoughts. Axel kept running away from it, but he couldn't get away. The light was chasing him all the time, in all his activities. Axel felt like he was living on stage because of the light, but all he wanted was to be back in his little old world.

Because his life fell apart, he definitely decided to send the light back. But how? He began to think about the ways to send the light back. What was the source of this light? Every light must have a source. But nope, it was not getting involved with any light source around him. But rather the light was stuck with Axel, and wait it was communicating with him. The light was showing its reactions. When it was happy it became red, when it was sad and angry, it was changing to green. What were going on?

Since Axel found out its reactions, he tried to understand what the light wanted. The light was joyful when Axel went out and he got closer to trying new things. Changing emotions of light was related to Axel's routines and actions, it was reacting to his life. That made sense to Axel because the light was attached to Axel's life like a new body part. Axel realized that the light was also gradually getting smaller when he did the things that it wants. Wait, getting smaller? that was good, very good. "Then it could disappear later", Axel thought.

Because of that, no matter how hard it was for him, he did what the light wanted. This was necessary to make it go away. Oh, what didn't they do? they went out every day. The light was happy when Axel met new people. So Axel was meeting new folks. Every night they were watching stars, the light was a big fan of them. They were playing basketball with the kids nearby. Axel almost forgot that he was so into basketball before. The light was a big fan of music and dancing. So when they were at home, Axel was playing the guitar and the light was dancing. Axel used to play the guitar when he was little. The light was walking around bright red and soo small. They became, wait for it: friends! And Axel seemed pleased with his new life actually, he was beginning to understand what the light wanted by directing in his life.

Until finally, there was one thing the light wanted: going out to a club with Axel. Well, this didn't go like very well. At first they were dancing and having fun. But Axel drank so much and got messed things up.. That was unexpected, and a little fun. Axel was wasted and embarrassed in next morning. He thought “Is that what you mean by living life?” His old little world also meant something meaningful to him. He was happy to learn from the light, but there had to be a balance.

From that day on, Axel began to live by establishing a balance between his own little world and the world outside. The light didn't go anywhere since Axel was sometimes spending time on the things the light didn't approve. But he was also exploring the world outside and the new things around him. The light? Well, it found a job on Earth, as a light. These chaps were sometimes getting together in the evenings after work.

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Popcorn Nigiri

Basak

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