| The Golden Forest |
| Sara and Kemberance lead you down your chosen path, the path marked Golden Forest. The pathway is level, and the soft grass makes walking pleasent, the thick grass cusioning your feet. You look up at the trees, marvling at how the branches intertwine. You gaze down at the ground, watching with facination at the light streaming down through the leaves. With every breath of the wind, and every shift of the leaves, the light moves slightly. The millions of spots of light dance across the ground in an amazingly beautiful, never ending waltz. Your eyes travel to the trees again. After a few moments, you realize that the trees are changing. As you have been moving deeper into the forest, new tree types had been splattered here and there. Now, very far into the woods, you see that each tree is different. You gaze at the splender of the hundereds of kinds of trees, swirlling together to create a beauty like no other. Kemberance watches you out of the corner of her eye. "Beautiful, isn't it?" You nod solomly, stunned by the sheer beauty and variety of the forest. The dragon smiles knowingly. "Yes, it is very beautiful. Each tree has a different neighbor. No two of the same trees are next to each other. Keeps everything a little more intersting." You nod, understanding. You and the other two walk for a while in silence, listing to the soft sounds of the forest, none wanting to disturbe the peace and beauty. You look back down to the ground, to watch the light's dance, and your steps faulter. The path is gone. No longer can you see a distinct path. Now, it as if you are simply walking through trees. Without the path, the beauty of the forest seems more natural, even more beautiful. After a few more minuets of walking, the trees begin to change again. As you get deeper into the forest, the trees begin to change color. In the begining, the trees had been a dark, lush green. Now, they were changing to gold. You gape in amazement at the now totally golden trees. Their bark is dark gold, and their leaves a crisp bright gold. The sunlight reflects in tiny patches across the golden leaves and bark, sending swirls of color and light reflecting on your face and everything else. You turn to Sara and ask how this is possilble. "It is possible through great magic." She turns to look at the golden trees, then turns back to you. "Gold dragons love anything gold." She says winking at Kemberance who winks back. "Many of the things in this place are golden." You understand, and say you do. After walking for quite some time, and enjoying every minuet of it, Sara stops, and turns back to you. "The forest goes on for miles, and we have only walked a tiny bit of it. Let us turn back now, and visit some of the other places." You agree to the elf's idea, and start the pleasurable walk back... |