// now I've been crazy, couldn't you tell? //
Nodding fervently, 'changing' seemed an understatement when it came to the Greatwood. "It does, yeah. She doesn't like strangers, they tend to find themselves thrown off course and ending up far from where they wished to go. It's usually fine if you have a guide along - someone who's lived here long enough to be accepted by the forest - and sometimes I've found that it helps to ask nicely." Aware how strange it sounded, talking about the forest like it had a mind of its own, Maea nevertheless believed every bit of the stories she'd heard. Even this past half season she had seen enough with her own eyes to have no doubt.
"Still, I don't think the islands themselves move, so if you stick to the waterways or fly above the trees it's not impossible to get around. I'd be happy to show you around; just, don't worry if we're thrown off to some place we didn't expect to visit." Maea wasn't long enough beneath the boughs to be a true local yet; every so often her own paths were twisted around, as though to shake her out of any comfortable delusions on her place in the region.
"Still, I don't think the islands themselves move, so if you stick to the waterways or fly above the trees it's not impossible to get around. I'd be happy to show you around; just, don't worry if we're thrown off to some place we didn't expect to visit." Maea wasn't long enough beneath the boughs to be a true local yet; every so often her own paths were twisted around, as though to shake her out of any comfortable delusions on her place in the region.
Maea
// I threw stones at the stars but the whole sky fell //
