Interwoven

Their Encounter

In the terror of the sudden pitch black forest Kaeul lifted her foot to begin walking again. The second she set it down her surroundings went dark. As if she had just walked into a pitch black room. She couldn't see or hear a single thing and she was starting to freak out again. The wind started to pick up making her think she wasn't actually in a room. Then slowly the sound of rustling trees started to fill her ears. The wind started to pick up making the branches of the trees crash into each other. Her eyes adjusted to the darkness but it was still difficult to see. The only thing she could make out was a thick, gray fog at her knees. Just when she wanted to try to feel her way through the forest blue and white lightning flashed. She braced herself for the sound of the thunder to follow but it didn't come.

¨What is going....?¨Kaeul whispered to herself, extremely confused. "Mingi!? If you're trying to be funny! Stop! You know I don't like...." She tried to shout but her voice was bouncing off the trees. She was alone.

Not knowing what else to do she continued to walk aimlessly through the self generated forest. Her footsteps echoed as loudly as her voice earlier. Like a swift and hard punch in her stomach someone's emotion suddenly entered her body. It was deep and intense, knocking her to her hands and knees. An anger that was self-righteous with a desire for destruction, for murder. It made the fear that she was trying so hard to control unleash and she started to shiver.

¨Hey!¨ Kaeul heard a voice call out. It was faint, as if this person was miles away. ¨Hey!! Get up!¨ The last word was swallowed up by the first rumble of thunder. It crashed in the darkness filling her ears, making her unable to distinguish any noise aside from the ringing in her ears. The sound made her shake, terror didn't even begin to describe how she felt. ¨You need to get up! Hey Milkian!! Get up!¨

Get up? That was such a joke. Her body could not engage the muscles needed to do that. That one unidentifiable emotion was still enveloping her, like boiling hot embers surrounding the shape of her body and fear ran through her mind immobilizing her. If she could get up and run, she would do it right this instant.

"I want to but I can't! If you keep feeling like this I won't be able to move at all!" She tried to explain but this person couldn't understand. No one could understand how she felt.

Powerful gusts of wind started to congregate to her right hand side. The wind formed a vortex that could have sucked everything inside of it like a black hole but instead was spitting things out. As if it was throwing up. Like a charging bull someone ran out of this vortex straight into Kaeul. Both parties toppled onto the floor with shouts of surprise and pain.

¨I told you to get up,¨ The voice of a young boy said to her as he tried to sit up. Kaeul however was still immobilized but now laying flat on the soil of the forest. ¨Are you alright?¨ He asked, reaching to help her up.

¨You can see?¨ she asked barely able to make out a face.

¨No not at all. But you were below me so I made a guess as to where your shoulders would be.¨

¨Answer me something.¨ she was much less docile as she allowed herself to be in her day to day interactions. She didn't want this person to know how scared she was in the moment.

¨Shoot your question, Milkian.¨

¨Is there anyone...anything coming behind you?¨

¨Just my servants. But someone did come ahead of me. Although they aren't someone I would call an ally,¨

The second the last words left his lips she felt the emotion intensify, locking up her muscles. Someone had been in the forest with her, watching her. Now this second guy was here and she was confident he was the source of the other party's anger.