Serenity Never Lasts (Round Three)
This morning felt foreign, as if she had never lived through a day. This wasn’t the case, but there was an inescapable silence and serenity which plagued this forest, bringing peace to a certain heiress’ spirit; she hadn’t been able to feel way for years. Dark eyes roamed across the brilliance of the forest, tall trees stretching their branches up towards the sky. The emerald hue of the leaves was awakening, bleeding back into the leaves like blood from a newly opened wound. She had stopped in the middle of the worn-dirt path, the wind picking up just enough to pick her cloak up and make it billow around her. This made her open her eyes, gazing at nothing in particular before her.
The musty scent of pine wood smoke assaulted her nose, signaling that a human village was nearby. She had arrived here only last night, and this place was still new to her, so she wouldn’t bother traveling into the town just yet. Humans were fragile and quite easy to scare, and she didn’t feel like inducing anymore trouble. Only last week, another group of demon hunters had caught up with her, and got her good with a large amount of arrows. Scowling at the memory, the young woman gazed up into the sky, releasing a soft breath. No, she wasn’t trying to enjoy the serenity, for she knew it would only last so long; she couldn’t get comfortable, even.
Her gaze was drawn across the horizon, billowing clouds of smoke raising from the chimneys of many a home in the village that was only miles away. Warmth seemed quite inviting at the moment, for this bitter cold still bit at her skin, tinging her cheeks a faint rose.
Once more she began to walk, her steps slow and silent, barely any sound being made other than the rustling of her clothes. She could hear the life of the forest begin to wake, rustling around within the bushes and chattering their simple, trivial lives away. Animals never seemed to think of death, even when they knew it was coming. ‘Pathetic…just like humans.’ She scoffed, gazing toward the opposite direction from the corner of her eye, the smoke still billowing above the treetops. ‘Why did I have to end up in another mortal inhabited area?’
Sighing softly, she continued to walk, heading into a darker part of the forest. The trees became more gnarled and twisted the further she traveled, her senses tingling, almost as if awakening from an inert state. And then serenity was lost, just as she had predicted.
After traveling for about ten minutes, she stopped. This place was pitch black, only a few speckles of light to be seem from the twisted and layered trees which loomed above her like so many dark, serpentine guardians. This forest held dark secrets; she could feel the menacing aura of darkness slithering around. She had been in a forest like this before, but for some reason, this place was unnerving. Stopping, she gazed before her into nothingness, waiting for the ugliness of whatever unknown evil there was to show its face.
Last edited by Lady Knives; 05-01-2007 at 10:15 AM.