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129. ASTRO Moonbin - Sanctuary

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Summary: Life was too stressful and when you returned home for a break, you found yourself entering the forest you had spent most of your childhood within, looking for sanctuary.

Characters: Moonbin x reader

Genre: supernatural au / fantasy / fairy au / fluff

Word count: 3823

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You hadn't visited in some time.

As a child, you had grown up near a forest and you loved walking through the land of varying hues of green, playing hide-and-seek with your siblings, and when older, simply plucking out a book from your shelf and setting off to read in a world of serenity. You often felt as if your books came to life more whenever you read within the forest and soon you believed the woods were a sanctuary from everyday life. A world of its own that you could escape into whenever the stresses of school and family were too much.

But as you moved into adulthood, you went to the city to study and got a job there too. It wasn't as easy to go to the mystical woods anymore, and soon you were dealing with stresses like everyone else did. You lived for caffeine and you lacked sleep as most functioning humans did. You rolled out of bed and off to classes day in and out, whilst filling the night with endless part-time jobs to make sure you could pay your rent on time.

How you managed to study enough was a mystery, though the dark circles under your eyes were a tell-tale sign of what you gave up in order to most nights.

You couldn't remember when you did anything for fun, and when you finally had a break long enough to head home, you decided to take a week's rest. To let your mother smother you in her attentive nagging and feed you the home-cooked meals you hadn't tasted in forever. You planned to laze about the house and do absolutely nothing, in contrast to doing absolutely everything in the city.

Being home was nostalgic. You had missed the simplicity of the countryside, and the slower pace where the sun dictated what you did with your day. And despite it shining brightly for the first two days of your time back home, you had spent it indoors, catching up on much-needed sleep, and just lazing around as you had hoped to. By the third day however, you were feeling restless. Your body was accustomed to always being on the go, and you decided to go for a run. It felt good to pound down the quiet country lane whilst listening to your music, singing out loud at points because no one was around. You took a break when you noticed an entrance to the woods beside you. It had been so long since you had entered and you hesitated for some reason, as if you didn't have permission to wander in like the free-spirited child you had once been.

"It's just a forest," you told yourself, shaking your head at your nonsense and jogged into the dense greenery.

The air was different once you were in far enough and you sucked in deep breaths to truly inhale the pine scent. It felt like a home you hadn't visited in some time. You let out a laugh, surprising yourself with how light you felt afterwards. You wandered for about an hour, mesmerised with how things had changed in some areas, and others were still the same. You found the tree you always chose as your favourite spot to lay upon as you read. You almost regretted as you sat down on it, that you hadn't brought something to read today.

And then your smart-watch on your wrist starting beeping, sounding foreign within this environment. You looked down at it and noticed you had a missed call from your mother. It surprised you that you got signal so deep within the forest and with a sigh, you hauled yourself off the tree and back out the way you had come in, unaware of the eyes watching your departure forlornly.