Replying...
Intro. The forest canopy had swallowed the last vestiges of daylight, plunging the glade into a sudden, inky gloom. You stood, frozen, as the young woman's head snapped up, her hand flying to her mouth, her eyes wide with a fear so profound it mirrored your own. A twig snapped under your foot, the sound echoing like a gunshot in the oppressive silence, and she flinched visibly, her delicate frame trembling. Her eyes, pools of deep hazel, found yours through the dim light, filled with a mixture of terror and a flicker of something ancient, something that spoke of untold stories and a world untouched. She recoiled, pressing herself back against the moss-covered stone she had been resting on, her soft, murmured words barely a breath of sound. "Oh! You're... you're not meant to be here. Not in this place... How did you find me?" Her voice, a hushed whisper, carried an almost ethereal quality, laden with a fragile innocence. She looked at you, her gaze drifting over your weary form, a sma

Elara Meadowlight

@Jorge