Add to Favourites. More by CoyoteUrbano Watch. LiterarySerenity Watch. Please come with me on an experimental ride upon a composed elevator that appears much like the glass variety of Willy Wonka literary fame except it forms one line at a time upon this page and comes complete with doors that slide wide open in a clear invitation for you to carefully step into its spacious interior.
Then our elevator will begin its descent in a slow but gradual manner for your comfort while the margins that stretch on either side reveal nothing until you might happen to notice golden eyes flicker deep within the canvas depths and two hawks appear who fly in a circle around our transport then disappear. You wander along a narrow forest path.
Bone-thin twigs and withered vegetation crunch out somber melodies underfoot, while owls offer soulful serenades to murky skies that threaten rain at any moment. Willow trees bent by time reach down with brittle branches at every breath of wind, seeming to whisper promises to shelter you if conditions worsen, as they have been unable to do for any traveler in many years.
It has been more than an hour since you left the closest town, Haven, where older residents tell of an abandoned castle deep in Curlicue Woods found by following a ghost cat said to appear right as the sun dips beyond the distant mountain ranges. The history of the castle and its residents is unknown, and its possible existence only came to light in recent years, thanks to a brief footnote found within an old book archived in the Haven Library. Since then, no one has dared to follow the catβexcept for you.
Your guide is a translucent creature formed as if from the same fog. You are powerful I want to tug these words off the page like threads from a much broader quilt and twist them into a bracelet to place right around your wristβ To touch late at night when doubts crouch about your bed and whisper of scars from years ago and of concerns for tomorrow You are smart I yearn to use this message in a similar way to a long and sturdy ribbon used to hold up your hairβ for you to remember at.
