Myths And Stars

🌲The edge of the woods🌲

There she stood at the edge of the forest about a mile away from town. Nothing but a long coat dark and rich as blood, boots muddy, old, and worn, wrists covered in old bandages starting to tear at the ends all it took was one step. One little step and the girl would be in a forest of unforsaken storys many great tales of monstrous beasts. Wolves big as mountains, dragons that breath fire boiling hot so hot it will melt your skin right off, ponds deeper than the sea itself, trees so thick that even if you chopped at it for a hundred year you would only leave a scratch. This forest was said to be dangerous cursed and held unimaginable secrets. The forest is said to have been on earth since time itself, and all it took was a step to enter this ancient forest. That's all it took and with that the girl took that step. Step after step, after step she went, not a care in her mind passed not even a thought. all she did was step after, step after step over and over again, No light shone through the top of the trees just small droplets of water that hung in the thick fog acting as a shield from the sun reflected the light. The forest made no sound no sound at all not even the great beasts that lived there made a sound. That quietness came to an end as a single twig that lay in the path of the girl. The dark hooded girl stepped on and created a louder sound than quit. Then a creature of the night a huge wolf like the old folktale said wolves big as a mountain stood in front of the girl. Nothing else made a sound only the quit grizzling from the back of wolf's throat. The girl stood there no words came only a hand slowly not hesitant but slowly rose from the girls side about an inch away from the wolf's nose and a bit lower its mouth filled with sharp crooked teeth. The wolf just stood there only the quit grizzling from the wolf's throat played like a small tune you'd play on a rainy day. The wolf did not bite he was wise and old as the forest itself he was coated in the night skies drizzle and had only a few white hairs that could be seen on close inspection.The wolf did what a wise and noble creature would do he was taught well mentored by one of greater wisdom that had passed it onto him the wolf touched his nose to her hand about an inch away from his snout. The girl was not scared she seemed as wise as the old wolf himself but that was not the case. The only reason that the girl was here, here in this forest old as time itself in a long coat dark and rich as blood, boots muddy old, and worn, with wrists covered in old bandages starting to tear at the ends probably a long ways away from town was because she was hoping for something old yet still new something different from the same old plain stone walls same old plain people the same scared helpless judgemental people . She was tired of the people she longed for something new, and there she stood miles away from town in the middle of an ancient forest with a wolf old as time. Nothing moved nothing made a sound it was just quite and it would remain that way for many, many years to come.

The End