• Chapter 3


    ~I pushed the little door open and a soft green light flooded in the tunnel. There were trees all around me. Big, huge trees. There were a few smaller trees and ferns, and a few other plants. But mostly just soft green light coming through a huge leafy canopy and a green mossy and ferny forest floor as far as the eye could see. The door was in a tree. Definitely not my yard.
    I heard a noise above me. I turned around but there was nothing there. I looked up and saw a green person, thing hanging upside down from a branch. She was wearing a green dress and a golden circulate around her forehead. She had black hair and red eyes. She was wearing a few little pouches around her waist and weapons across her back. The most curious thing was that she had markings all over her.
    ~I screamed. A moment’s fear flashed across her face, but it was gone as suddenly as it had come. She jumped off the tree and went around back of me. I had been used to fights at school but this was over as soon as it begun. I thought she would kill me with one of the various things across her back, but instead, before I could say anything she put her hand over my mouth. I felt something shoot into my arm, but surprisingly, it was painless. I fell asleep immediately.

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    ~I woke up in some kind of nest house. I could barely see, but by the feel of the air it was either dusk or dawn. There was a stone patch in the middle of the floor. There were a few little covered baskets and one area that had woven walls and a ceiling. There was a smokeless fire burning on the stone.
    ~I realized how hungry I was, so I stared looking around for my backpack when the green creature popped up over the side of the nest. It scared me so bad, and I think the thing could tell because she just rolled her eyes at me. She had an animal tied on a string. The string was tied to a rod that she had in her mouth. She went over to the fire and threw the animal on.
    Then she turned those evil red eyes on me. I felt chilled to the bone under her stare. I somehow managed to mumble out “W-who are you? What do you want with me?” it sounded pretty pathetic once it got out, but hey it was something.
    ~She looked at me strangely for a moment before replying “I am Vidon. A creature of the Forest of Murmurs.” She was still for a moment before she started to tend to the flame.
    ~“What are you?” I said in a voice that was a little to shaky for my taste.
    ~“Who knows?” She said. Her voice sounded like a mixture of hatred and something very strong, you couldn’t help pity her a little. “Along the line I have many different fascinating and horrible things all mixed into on. Do you like rabbit?”
    ~I was a little surprised how easily she could talk about something so intense, then say something so carefree. “Sure” was all that I could think of to say back.
    ~We ate the rabbit (which by the way was wonderful) mostly in silence, but then near the end she whispered “Here she comes to find her little flower. Look over the nest.” When I looked over it was getting rather dark, and I noticed that we were very high up, I wonder how we got up here? Was the question that I was busy thinking about, when I heard hoof beats. There was a rather pretty lady on a black horse (it fit well considering the time of night) with a couple other riders along side her.
    ~“Where is she!” the lady screamed. I suppose they were supposed to meet someone here, and she didn’t show. “Your stupid little crystal ball said that she arrived 2 hours ago and that she was still in this area! Where is she?!” At that moment, they looked up and I thought that for sure they would see me, but at that moment Vidon sniggered and they seemed to have heard her. “Come down here at once you Tree Rat or I’ll send someone up!”
    Vidon scurried down the tree (to my astonishment) when she got down there the woman looked at her as if she was filthy garbage and then after calling Vidon a Tree Rat she had the gall to say “Bow!” Vidon (to more of my astonishment) gave a stiff little bow. “Where is she?” The woman demanded again. Vidon just shrugged. “Okay then, where did she go?” she screeched. Vidon pointed to the left. The woman (who by now I was thinking was not so pretty anymore) purred in a loving voice “Well, since you have been such a good help, I won’t kill you. Instead, Beking, you know what to do.” At that, she turned around grabbed the mini “defective” crystal ball out of the man’s hands, and thru it against a tree. It sounded like a clap of thunder. “I hate the sound they make when they break.” She commented. Then the Beking person pulled out a whip. I turned away just in time. But luckily I was high enough that I couldn’t hear anything. I rolled up and went to sleep while I waited.