The Arcadia Chronicles III: Wood Elf Quest

Down The Rabbit "Hole"

Sylvia's POV

Ever since my time machine worked, I've been through several places in the past. Of course, as my documentary - I took selfies on clear beaches that no human has ever stepped on to, except me, green luscious forest with a T-rex again behind me with its mouth wide open at me, and a lot more places.

I also took pictures of prehistoric animals. I identified a few but I don't know most of them. What really shocked me is when I was on the Carboniferous Period - I learned from prehistoric animal documentaries in the TV that the insects are monstrous in that period which I thought is just a theory but when I leaped there, I saw dragonflies that are as large as a tire of a car, Mesothelae spiders with a size of a human head stalked the swamp-like forest. Trees there are incredibly high, I know very well that the Sequoia tree is the largest and tallest tree that ever existed but fern-like trees tower the vast forest, and while I was walking around, I stumbled and thought that I tripped on a log but when I stood up, the 'log' suddenly reared up and it was the living flesh of an Arthropleura!

The centipede-like creature with tough-looking exoskeleton is about a foot wide and about two meters long!

Of course, I didn't miss the photo opportunities.

I slumped on my bed Just when is this Era of Wars? I've been preparing myself for the journey there when I'll find it, one could say that I overprepared but it's much better than running out of needs while I'm on that time. Hernel said You better rest, Miss Sylvia, you still have school tomorrow.

I replied muffly, my face buried on the pillow Really? It's a month-long semestral break, Hern', starting tomorrow.

My bad Miss Sylvia.

____________________

I'm in my basement again, turning on the machine after setting the time. I adjusted my headphones This is the 100th attempt, Hernel, better wish me luck.

I will always support you, Miss Sylvia.

The space in the machine started to distort and revealed a forest again and entered that time.

I turn the machine off and dematerialized it. Hernel said Your Void Space is fifty percent full.

I walk around that area and it seems like a normal forest to me. I even saw some freshly hacked tree branches and several trees There has to be human inhabitation nearby. I also notice one thing, I checked my phone and saw that the time is 8:22 but it's unusually dark like a shadow covered the forest Must be a solar eclipse.

As I step out of a bush, I saw a carrot lying just a few meters from me Another sign of human living near here. I went forward to pick it up when the ground beneath my feet suddenly gave in! I didn't expect this and landed hard on the bottom, spraining an ankle at the same time.