Thread: Passing Strange

"People!! What's happening!!??!! Somebody clue me in here!!"

Diddy is understandably upset. From the corner of my eye it seems something is going wrong back there.. Muffin is starting to curve or tilt or something and little Sera wrestling to maintain control - it doesn't look good.

But now all my attention is on DeMonica racing ahead heedless toward that beautiful forest.

She doesn't seem to have noticed what I have - that the trees are unnaturally shaped - twisted and distorted - until it seems they possess almost human features.

All of them.

In fact as if they once were human, but by some evil agency their feet took root here in this rich soil and their bodies lengthened and thickened and grew twisted and their skin coarsened and became scabrous as like the bark of the trees, and their arms clutching greedily skyward toward fresh air and sunshine, and from their flanks grew manifold branches and from the branches leaves and then they here forevermore did reside.

That's what I'm thinkin' anyway.

Judging from the rest of what we've seen here.

But on she runs, overcome with joy, to sweep into that forest. It's hard to blame her really, considering all we've been through here, and how heavily the torments of the damned seem to have weighed on her. I can imagine she'd be powerfully tempted to run headlong into this sweet wood and disappear there forever - perhaps even at cost of becoming one with it - forever. And then it occurs to me..

Perhaps she has noticed the trees.

And still she plunges ahead.


.. and perhaps she's not wrong.