The day after Terra agreed to befriend the blue haired boy from the woods, Terra returned to the forest. The same old path with the same old plants trampled down and decayed by her own two feet. Everywhere else was as it had always been. Beautiful vines, roots, flowers, and mushrooms of all sorts splayed across the floor. A floor darkened by the vast overlay of canopy leaves created by the never ending assortment of trees she would now have to navigate on a day to day basis.
"Hello Blue Haired Boy."
She finally found her new friend sitting against a tree and sat down beside him, a strange prickling arising in her heart. She never had a friend before, never needed one.
Though here one was.
He was strange, however he was someone to know, something to look forward to figuring out besides math equations and science books.
"We have spent more than a few days together now, perhaps we should reveal our true names."
He grinned without lifting his eyes from picking the dirt from his fingernails.
"Fair enough." She agreed and waited for moments that challenged him to go first.
"Reuel. Prince to any young lady who might find herself upon these woods."
They studied each other for some time before she stifled a laugh and rolled her eyes.
"Don't be ridiculous. That name is far too long. Reuel is a good enough name for you."
"What? Afraid of a good looking prince you found in the middle of the woods?" Reuel winked.
She grinned. What was wrong with this boy, pretending to be a prince. She wondered if he knew that princes were the ones who only caused wars and corruption in history.
"The only thing I fear is your absurd imagination."
"Fine, so you don't like fairy tales, what do you like then."
He watched her curiously.
She looked around thoughtfully. Her eyes caught a small patch of daisies in the clearing before them. A small patch where the canopy cleared of leaves casting a scattered dusting of sunlight upon the pretty yellow petals.
"Flowers." He looked where she looked, a faint smile blooming across his face.
Terra explained; "They are beautiful and real and growing constantly, even in cold weather."
"Then, you're in luck." His smile broadened. "Crowns are my specialty."
Before she could question his meaning Reuel pushed off the tree they leaned against and strolled to the flower patch. He ripped up a clump of the precious yellow.
Her mouth twitched in annoyance at his disturbance of the growing nature. Though he sat back down and handed her a single flower from his new collection. Before she knew it he was braiding and tying the rest of them together while she sat watching in awe and clutching the single flower he handed to her.
"A flower crown?"
He nodded with a smile.
After a few minutes past of Reuel's focus and concentration, he lifted his new creation to the top of her crimson curls.
"Now you're a princess! Though it seems you do not care for a fairytale so perhaps we should just call you 'The crowned flower girl.'"
"Perhaps." She grinned.
"That reminds me though, you haven't told me your name."
"Terra."
"No last name?" He tilted his head.
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Forever Forest
FantezieA small house in the middle of the woods. A daughter and her father. A normal life Terra expected to live. Though the second she stepped into the forest, she found her world had turned upside down. Afraid of a fantasy, though her story would be just...
