i am a leaf on the wind
She doesn’t entirely know where she ends up. Like usual, she’d been wandering through the Deep Forest and somewhere in there it stopped being the forest she knows. She doesn’t know exactly when it happened, exactly what gave way into this other place. A labyrinth of a land, more towering green grasses and bamboo shoots than trees, but still feeling like a dense, strange place.
She keeps going though, knowing she has nothing better to do anyway, and not all that worried about getting lost. As long as she can see the sky, she can get back to the Edge. There are a lot of perks to flying, after all. And she can wander for days and still find her way back eventually. It’s a lot easier to find home when you can see far ahead, and when you can cover distance quickly.
It is beautiful here, though it is not one of the forests that she’s become so used to here. The rest of the Helovia still doesn’t feel like home. It’s more like an extended vacation. But the Deep Forest is beginning to feel like home. The Edge, maybe, will feel like home. She knows the forest there well enough, anyway, and maybe eventually she’ll know some of the other residents as well.
But for now, she stays in the maze. Half the day is gone already, and there’s no real point to heading home now. Which might not be true. Something could be happening, certainly, she just can’t bring herself to face it all. She enjoys having the excuse to leave. Enjoys pretending like this is all just a hideous nightmare. One of these days she’ll wake up, and she’ll be home (Morham, not here), and her family will still be alive and things will be okay. One day, this place won’t exist except as a memory of a dream.
So she keeps pretending. Keeps running from the Edge because knowing no one makes it easier to leave. Makes it easier to keep up this pity party she’s started, this nomadic lifestyle except with a constant place to rest her head at night. And today, she gets to be lost in a maze. What a great place to play pretend.
watch how i soar.
lyanna
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