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I am a friend of the forest

By JAMAL EZZPublished 2 years ago 4 min read

At the core of the Charmed Woods, where the old trees murmured stories have failed to remember enchantment and pitiful mysteries, they're carried on with a desolate animal named Elara. She was a fragile face, with wings like the petals of shriveled roses and eyes that mirrored the despairing of the timberland.

Elara had once moved among the dynamic blooms and giggled with the fun loving sprites that possessed the forest. Yet, as the years passed, a shadow crawled over the Captivated Woods, projecting a whiteness on its once-exuberant occupants. The wellspring of this murkiness was a puzzling disease that emptied the existence substance out of the trees and animals the same.

Individually, the superb trees lost their gloss, their leaves turning a wiped out shade of dim. The once-clamoring knolls became ruined, and the unpleasant cries of the breeze reverberated through the exposed branches. The sprites vanished, abandoning a scary quiet that hung vigorously in the air.

Elara, as well, felt the heaviness of the infringing despair. Her once-energetic wings hung, matching the distress in her eyes. She set out on a mission to find the reason for the woods' burden, directed simply by the sad murmurs of the trees.

As Elara dove further into the core of the Charmed Woods, she coincidentally found an old clearing where an otherworldly figure looked for her. It was the Soul of the Woodland, a spooky substance that had seen the sluggish rot of its domain.

"The enchanted that once flourished here is blurring," the soul murmured, its voice a frightful song. "A revile has occurred for the core of the forest, emptying the life out of all that was once lively and blissful."

Not entirely settled to lift the revile, Elara looked for direction from the Soul. It uncovered that the best way to break the revile was to find the Tears of the Moon, an uncommon and strong gem concealed in the core of the most profound, most forsaken piece of the backwoods.

With crushing sadness, Elara set out on her excursion, exploring through the curved ways of the neglected woods. The further she wandered, the more she felt the heaviness of the devastation. The once-pleased trees stood like sad sentinels, their branches connecting as though arguing for salvation.

Finally, Elara arrived at the core of the woods, where the very air appeared to grieve. There, underneath the skeletal parts of the most established tree, she found the Tears of the Moon, sparkling with a sad brilliance.

As Elara grasped the precious stone, a flood of old wizardry coursed through her. With a tear in her eye, she murmured a genuine supplication to the timberland, requesting pardoning and rebuilding.

At that time, the precious stone enlightened the clearing, projecting a delicate shine that spread like an ointment over the injured land. The revile started to lift, and life leaked once more into the once-passing on trees. The glades blossomed with dynamic tones, and the frightful cries of the breeze changed into a delicate, relieving song.

Yet again elara's wings recaptured their radiance, and the Soul of the Woodland showed up, its ghostly structure wreathed in appreciation. The Captivated Woods, however scarred by the distress it had persevered, started to mend, and a hint of something to look forward to got back to its heart.

As Elara viewed the restored woods, she realize that the scars of its past would everlastingly wait, however the excellence of its strength would persevere. Yet again the Charmed Woods murmured appreciation to the fae had conquered the misery to bring back the light, and Elara, with tears of both distress and delight, turned into a watchman of the once-miserable timberland, guaranteeing that its enchantment would flourish. Elara's wings helped her through the renewed woods, her heart overflowing with a blend of appreciation and mixed despairing. The restored Charmed Woods appeared to sing with recently discovered life, and the once-dismal spirits presently moved in the dappled daylight.

However, as Elara investigated the revived scene, she was unable to shake the memory of the woods' destruction. The scars left by the revile waited, noticeable in the contorted types of certain trees and the weak reverberations of distress that murmured in the breeze.

In the core of the forest, she found a failed to remember dale enhanced with radiant blossoms. These ethereal blooms, known as Memory Petals, held the accounts of the woods inside their fragile petals. As Elara contacted every petal, recollections of satisfaction, giggling, and dynamic wizardry played before her eyes, intertwined with the later story of distress and gloom.

Tormented by these dreams, Elara understood that the Captivated Woods had a story to tell — an account of flexibility and the repetitive idea of life and sorcery. With overwhelming sadness, she chose to safeguard these recollections by meshing them into the texture of the actual woodland, guaranteeing that the illustrations gained from its snapshots of depression could never be neglected.

Utilizing the Tears of the Moon, Elara did something amazing, injecting the precious stone with the aggregate recollections of the Captivated Woods. The precious stone gleamed with a delicate sparkle as it consumed the quintessence of the past, turning into a translucent narrator that held the insight of the woods inside its brilliant center.

Elara set the charmed gem at the core of the revived dale, where it transmitted a delicate light that beat in time with the heartbeat of the forest. The Memory Petals, presently permeated with the quintessence of both distress and win, started to sprout around the gem, making a living embroidery of the woodland's set of experiences.

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JAMAL EZZ

Reading is swimming in the seas of science and knowledge on boats of lines. Reading is a dialogue with ideas, opinions, perceptions, and fantasies, and a meeting with their owners on the pages of books.

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