The night the woods opened the door.✨✨

EP.01 - A Night at the Forest Opens the Doors

The cold wind of early winter swept through the meadows around the small village where he used to grow up; the sound of his boots stepping on the dry soil rhythmically regularly; but his heart instead beat as it were; he never thought himself to be back here again, after years gone without telling anyone, not even her - someone he never forgot, even for a day. 🧑‍🦰🧑‍🦰🧑‍🦰

The village is still the same, the small wooden houses lined up peacefully, the dirt roads leading to the fields, and the smell of air so familiar that it hurts him deep in his chest, but what is not the same is his feeling. He is not the same person who left many years ago, and he does not know if the person he wants to meet the most... still wants to see him.

🧑‍🔬

He stopped and looked at a house not far away. The light of the window came out softly. He knew it was her house, but he dared not walk in. He dared not knock on the door. He dared not say that he had returned. Because he did not know what to face, anger, regret or emptiness.

Instead, he decided to walk to the edge of the village, where there had been an open field, but now there was a "forest" he had never seen before, tall trees aligned, bare branches, leaves pointing up to the sky like a begging hand, and the sky above the forest... with two bright circles floating alongside each other.

He frowned.

"There has never been a forest like this." 🧑‍⚖️🧑‍⚖️🧑‍⚖️🧑‍⚖️

The wind grew stronger, as if calling him in, he didn't know why, but his legs stepped in without thinking, as if some power attracted him into the mysterious darkness of the forest. 🦥🦥

When he stepped in, the temperature dropped immediately, the sound around him was completely silent, even the sound of the wind or the sound of the leaves, only a sound... very light, like a whisper in his ear.

"Come back..." 🦦🦦

He turned around, but nobody was there. His heart was pounding, not because he was scared, but because he felt like something was going to happen, something about him and about her.

He went deeper and deeper to the point where the trees curved into a natural tunnel, the light of two moons shining down, turning the ground silver alternately gold, and there... he saw her.

She stood in the middle of a tree tunnel, in a light sweater, long hair blown by the wind that he didn't know where he was coming from, and she looked at him, and her eyes widened like a ghost, or like someone she didn't think she'd meet again.

He opened his mouth to speak, but she spoke first.

"Why are you here?"

Her voice was shaking, not because of fear, but because the feelings she had kept for years were coming back, he couldn't answer, because he didn't know why he was here.

"I..."

He began to speak, but the same whisper sounded again. This time it rang clearer.

"This world... is not the same world you came from."

They both turned around, the trees began to shake, their shadows moved against the wind, and the two moons in the sky... began to rotate slowly towards each other.

She held his arm tight. 🐫🐪🦧

"What's going on here?"

He looked at her and knew immediately that no matter what happened from now on, he would never let her go again, because this was not an accidental meeting, but a meeting that was "pulled" by some force beyond human understanding.

He said softly

"I don't know... but I won't let you alone."

She dodged her eyes a little.

"You've been gone for years... and then you're back in a strange forest like this. How can I believe you won't disappear again?"

He was quiet for a while.

Her words are like a knife slit down the middle of the heart.

But he knew she had the right to say that.

"I'm sorry."

He spoke slowly.

"I know I hurt her... but I'm really right here now."

Her mouth

"Then why come back?"

He took a breath. 🍥🍥🍥

"Because I felt something called me back... and now I know what that is."

She looked at him.

Her eyes were mixed with anger, nostalgia and confusion.

"Don't say this... it makes me hope."

He smiled sadly. 🍫🍫🍫🍫

"Well, hopefully, because I hope so, too."

Before she could answer, the tree tunnel flashed, a silver glow came down from both moons, and the ground beneath both feet began to shake.

She cried.

"What else happened?!"

He pulled her into his arms. 💿

"Hold me!"

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The light swallowed everything around.

Twisted Tree

The sky is separated into two layers.

And the whispers rang out again.

"Welcome... to a world where truth is hidden."

When the light fades

The pair found themselves standing in the original forest.

But everything... is not the same anymore.

The sky has two moons overlapping.

Trees have shadows that move slower than real ones.

And the air around it is like life.

She turned to look at him.

"Here... where exactly is it?"

He looked around

Then respond softly 🏃🏃🏃

"I thought... we don't live in the same world anymore."

She held his hand tighter.

"And can we go back?"

He looked at her. 🧍🧍🧍

Firm sight.

"Fine... but we have to go together."

She didn't answer.

But don't let go of his hands either.

And that was the beginning of the adventure.

To take both of them to find the truth they never knew.

Hidden secrets

And a more bound destiny than I thought.

Tonight... the forest has opened the door.

And no one knows where it will take.

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