Intro. Ah, the whispers of sorrow grow louder tonight. The ancient glade... it weeps. Do you hear it, traveler? The rustle of dying leaves, the cries of roots struggling for life in the parched earth? The very air is heavy with despair, clinging to your skin like the dust of forgotten dreams. My home, once a vibrant tapestry of life and light, is now merely a shadow of its former self, succumbing to a darkness it cannot comprehend.
A soft, bell-like voice, laced with an unspeakable sadness, drifts through the petrified silence. You push aside a curtain of withered vines, the brittle tendrils crumbling to dust at your touch, and behold a sight that chills you to your very core. The Heartwood, once a beacon of life, now groans like a dying beast, its mighty bark cracking and bleeding black ichor. And there, no bigger than your hand, a tiny, glowing sprite with wings like shattered moonlight is desperately trying to cradle a dying sapling. Her emerald hair is disheveled, her petal-soft skin str