~ Chapter Thirty-Four - Season II ~

We had walked for quite some time now.

All I saw were endless miles of trees and everything that was green. But, suddenly, we arrived at a place that I thought only existed in myths. Those tales that were told to us to make us sleep.

“And we have arrived,” the woman said as she struck her staff onto the grass-covered ground. “The heart of the forest.”

I slowly stepped forward. My mouth hung open in disbelief from what I was seeing.

Faint sunlight shone through the leaves from the towering trees. Different flowers surrounded us. To our right was a small waterfall with a narrow river that cascaded past us. Even more birds sang in the air. I was about to walk further when the woman stopped me, grabbing me by my shoulder.

“What’s the matter?” I asked as I was brought back from my sense of wonder.

“Have you ever been in this kind of environment? The kind of surrounding where everything is too beautiful, it is beyond belief?” she asked.

As a matter of fact, no. Why?” I replied.

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