Her feet makes cracking sounds as it steps on the brown dried grass. Skeletal structure of various dying trees occupy a huge landmass. Their branches are leafless, their stems - long and thin. The cloud filled pale grey sky makes the night not that dark and the trees are generously spaced out with a lot of walk paths.
Danbury walks wearing a light purple overhead cloak. The sound of someone humming a song popular amongst the locals disturbs her. Stopping, she turns back to face her little maid who walks sluggishly behind her.
"Katrina, do not walk so slow,... we would miss the fortune teller."
The maid stops nervously scratching her hair, she speaks out in an afraid submissive voice:
"Your Father...I mean... If he finds out...!"
"He wouldn't... And what's so wrong with me wanting to find out about my own future?"
"You never showed much interest in fortune telling."
"Well, now I do!" Danbury walks forward. Her face sternly faces the path she walks through.
The maid hurries to catch up with her.
Danbury and Katrina walk in silence for a while. The only sound heard in the vast land occupied by scanty trees is from crickets.
The dried whitish brown grass covers the ground giving it a frustrated grim look.
On getting there, after what seemed like ages, they stop looking at the 'supposed place. '
The sky appears much darker with huge fierce clouds which forms a black circular patch surrounding a small hut. Lightning strikes with every passing second.
Far beneath the sky, the hut stands on the ground filled with dead grasses. The hut also gives out a very terrifying aura. It is minuscule and made out of reeds and branches. The entrance is narrow with no door but inside the hut seems dark and large. Branches from a huge tree extend right into the entrance and into the walls of the hut, sharply cutting through it. The tree has a fat stem with a skeletal structure. It has no leaves on its crawling branches but weirdly on the treetop - the highest branch, there is a huge green leaf with patches of red, which looks too healthy to be in such an environment.
"Are you sure someone actually lives here?" Katrina's voice rings loud startling Danbury.
The dim light from the moonless and star less sky highlights her pointed nose.
"I...yes...that's what it says!" Danbury says confused pointing to the map.
Katrina moves back cautiously, her hand grips Danbury's. Her eyes begging.
"Do you have to go in there?" Her emphasis on 'YOU.'
Danbury looks around, her face says it all, ' She was as scared as a chicken ready for slaughter!' But she tries to be brave.
"I came here to meet a Shaman and... I will!" Her feet shakes in fear while her face looks up confidently.
A voice calls out from behind - a path which appeared so dark, it is hard to see through it.
"Cowards!"
Danbury moves about, her hands shake in fear. Katrina also shakes in fear, her eyes actually brings out tears which falls down, wetting her cheeks.
"Did you say that?" "Did you hear that?" They both hear themselves say in unison.
"If you were going to chicken out...why even bother coming?" The voice says again. It is soft but has a commanding tone.
"I know this voice!" Danbury thinks and calls out to the silhouette who walks closer to them, emerging from the dark:
"Who are you?"
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Caesar
FantasyAs soon as a dark handsome mysterious man pays a visit to Yunchi.Yunchi is known far and wide as the cursed land with devastating droughts and famine. He helps farmers, fishermen and even Royalty using them to climb into power. Three years after his...
