Rhythm's Journey

XVI - The unexplainable things

It has been two weeks since the day I woke up from my deep slumber, having to find myself in the Forest of Wonders.

The angelic tones of the grand piano's voice had enlightened me from my deep sleep as I remembered listening to the soft, calm tunes of the pieces being played while regaining my vision just to see a silver-haired boy playing the piano with his eyes closed as though his body and soul were deeply immersed into the rhythms of the beautiful sounds as well.

Then I had started to observe the piano and the boy, noticing how they had a strange connection flowing in between them. It was a strong wave of luminous light that held the two together, and the aura given off was so magical that it almost seemed unreal.

There was something similar to the red thread, I supposed, but in a different form where beams of soft, cream-coloured hues danced in between the boy and the grand piano like fairy lights joining them together.

The boy had started telling stories to the grand piano starting from the fifth day I was awoken by his magic, and there were specifically two significant ones that stayed in my head for the rest of the week till this day and I couldn't stop thinking about them because they seemed too special, in a way that I could picture everything together but I would love to see them with my own eyes.

Till then, that was everything that happened throughout the two weeks of staying over at the forest. There were plenty of magical fruits and plantations in here as well, making starvation a problem that I wouldn't need to solve.

As I mentioned the foods available for consumption in the forest, there was indeed something peculiar that happened while I was eating them.

I would try to swallow the fruits bit by bit, letting every single piece that entered my body to be cherished thoroughly because supplies for consumption here seemed very little. As the food reached my mouth and into my throat, it would start to glow in radiant tones that tiny sparks of light would appear along my throat as the food vanished away.

It was simply strange that I wasn't able to consume the food entirely as they tend to disappear once they reach my throat, and sometimes even my mouth. Despite not swallowing any pieces of the fruits into my body, I couldn't even feel the slightest bit of hunger, as though energy and nutrition were already absorbed once the food touched my lips.

Was that why they disappeared...?

There had always been countless unexplainable fascinating theories of the forest and the things that grow and inhabit in it, even the strange creatures that lived deep in the forest had no desire of hunting for prey, nor have they consumed anything for as long as I have seen them since the day I was awakened.

It was to no surprise that the creatures could be some sort of magical spiritual beasts, like the nine-tailed foxes that looked something similar to that of the creatures I had a brief encounter in the forest before.

They were very solemn creatures indeed, partially friendly and welcoming when I stroked their furs but I promised they wouldn't cause any harm in comparison to the forest they lived in, because they seemed rather fearless as they noticed me, as though they knew from the start that I was no quality threat.

Not that I wasn't though,

I was just a little too interested in the boy and the grand piano that I couldn't bother to care less about these creatures.

I would see them more and more often each day, and by today, which should be the end of the week, they have come to visit me more than three times already as far as I have observed.

Because the creatures have built a natural border between myself and the rest of the forest rulers, they held a thick blanket of nervousness in them as they came closer, tilting their heads as they scanned their eyes over me.

As the days passed by, the natural border had slowly loosened as they would approach me in much bigger, confident steps now and some even decided to leave a bow when our eyes met.

It was simply something so adorable yet so magical that it must have seemed unreal even to those who can imagine it.

That was when I was taken aback as my head bowed down towards the creatures immediately, hoping to show a sign of gratitude and respect because they have never ought to show me harm since the day my presence came back to life.

I was simply more than thankful as realisation soon hit me that I was neither a predator nor prey in their eyes, and I was only another very strange species whom they have slowly accepted as another visitor of the forest because they believed I was perhaps, rather harmless.

As I have eventually increased my likeability in the forest, it has finally come to the time I catch the desire to reveal myself to the boy with the grand piano.

I was still very concerned about the nasty things that would happen, whether he would be angry as I have been eavesdropping on his conversation with the piano, whether he would pretend to not see me as I was simply nobody, and whether he would start to hate me because of my unannounced presence until now.

As a born pessimist, I couldn't help but to shower myself with thoughts as such because they seemed a little too easy to come true, compared to those of the fortunate ones.

Evenso, I had to believe that good things happen alongside the bad ones that we see in our eyes. I had to know that the boy was rather kindhearted and full of charm, and I hoped that he was also generous and forgivable.

It had occurred to me that only positivity would keep me alive in a place like the Forest of Wonders, because there was truly no place to accept the negative energy that was overflowing in me. 

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