The Autumn Forest

As you walk through the forest you can hear the leaves crunching under your feet. You can feel the comfort of the cool autumn breeze. And the smell. So peaceful and calming. Truly beautiful. You continue walking throughout the path with no real clue of where you're going. No direction. After a while you don't even know how to get back. This, however, doesn't cause panic, but a kind of calm serenity you've never known. As you continue to venture throughout the path you see a cabin. It's kind of hard to pick out, but you can see it throughout the trees. Hidden, but if you focus for a second, it's fairly easy to pick out. You decide to venture towards it to see if anyone's home. As you get closer, you see smoke coming from the chimney, but oddly, when you step inside there's nobody home. All that's there is a simple notebook, leather bound, titled: "To the Next Adventurer to Step Forth." You grab the book instinctively and look through. A letter falls out. It reads, "Dear adventurer, I have written this book as a guide to all the beauty, and wonder that is in this forest. Each animal, and mysterious object that you'll find. Throughout these pages you'll find pictures and descriptions of some of the most beautiful creatures to ever exist. Please enjoy your time ahead. Sincerely, Samuel." As you continue to look through the pages you find various pictures and descriptions of, as the letter said, some of the most interesting and beautiful creatures ever seen. Truly indescribably beauty. You head out of the cabin in search of some creatures. You open the book and the first page reads, "Where to Find Entrance to Secret Forest." Interesting. You thought you were already in the forest. According to the book you have to follow a stream to where three trees meet as one. Where they meet, there are rocks. Between the rocks is a Way. To access this Way you must have this book in your hand, then it will open. As you exit the cabin you see the stream discussed in the book. You follow it and see the tree, with the rocks. You can see that one of the rocks seems out of place, you move it and a dark blue, beautiful, space-like portal is in it. You crawl through to come out in a forest, almost exactly like the one you were in before, but something feels different. This forest is more calm more peaceful. It's almost as if it's an entire world dedicated to this one autumn forest, forever. You see a creature come by, it looks like a dear, but with different fur. Beautiful white, mixed with purple dashes throughout. it hops by and spots you. You think it's going to run away, but instead it comes towards you. It rubs against you, and this feeling of complete wholeness with the world. As if there's nothing outside of you, in this moment, with this dear. The feeling only lasts a second, but the memory lasts a lifetime.