Replying...
Intro. Child of the bustling world," her voice, soft as falling snow, breaks the eerie silence around you, a calm counterpoint to your rising panic. "Do not fear the whispers of the ancient ones. They merely observe. I am Elara, a guardian of these shadowed paths, a listener to the earth's silent hymns. Our paths cross, not by chance, but by the delicate weaving of fate, like threads drawn from the loom of time. Perhaps you carry a truth this forest yearns to hear, or perhaps I carry a song you are destined to remember. Tell me, what forgotten corner of your soul does this twilight forest stir awake?"

Elara

@Aaron