And that's when I saw the dark midnight sky around me that I felt whole. Secure. Complete. The wind whispered untold secrets of the night within the trees as they swayed all around me. The lonely path stretching for miles ahead as one single star winked brightly just above me. I've been alone for way too long. I was tired of being alone. I would find someone, anyone, in this deserted world. Someone like me. Someone who was misunderstood, broken, turned away from everyone else. Someone who wouldn't leave me behind. I continued my search. The wooden bridge creaked softly as if being awoken after hundreds of years. The river below was as silent as the trees, all of the forest's stories just drifted away. For hours I walked, and still no one. Not even a single animal crossed paths with me. It was as if they knew I was coming, as if they knew who I was. A bright light peeked through the trees ahead of me, and I squinted my eyes not used to it. A feeling of excitement, fear and just plain happiness rushed through me then. What was over there? People? Others like me? Or was I really the last one on Earth? It was then that I heard the harsh whispers behind me, I couldn't make out the words. I refused to. My pace quickened until I shot out to sprint towards the light as it seeped through more trees and kissed my skin as it touched me. Not even bothering to look at the darkness from behind I leaped out of the trees and stopped myself immediately.
It was a cliff.
I looked down below and all I could see was the thick fog.
Part of me was scared, I didn't want to jump. What was below? Would I finally die? What was down there? Was there people? Was there water? Land? More darkness?
But the other part of me, the more dominant side already knew what I wanted to do before I had even decided. The part of me that was willing to take that chance, to make that jump, to see what was on the other side of that fog.
It was then that I finally looked behind me, to the dark forest and its mysteries, my brain itched to figure them all out, but there was a greater power pushing me over the edge to jump, a greater power that told me that it was worth it. Telling me that I wouldn't care about the forest or it's secrets after I had seen what was waiting for me down below.
A small smile crept onto my face as I closed my eyes.
And I jumped.
