Gifts of the Forest

Gifts of the Forest

Postby Crista » Tue May 10, 2016 12:15 pm

The spring greening of the forest offered a bounty of gifts to any who knew how to find them. Kirinelle had known how to harvest the forest’s treasures since she was a child. Of course, those were different forests and that was long ago, but the actions remained the same. There had once been a time when she had forgotten the language of the forest, when ice ran through her veins, but she had remembered again and that was all that mattered.

She wandered off the trails, drenching herself to the knee from the morning dew that hung like a diamond veil on green leaves, and carefully picked her way through the underbrush. Kirinelle’s eyes narrowed as she scoured around the base of the trees for her quarry. She moved deeper into the forest, watching every step to keep from crushing some other valuable treasure underfoot.

Then, around the large trunk of an ancient tree, Kirinelle found her target. She released a small sigh and a smile curved her thin, scarred lips. She knelt next to the plant, feeling the damp seep through the fabric of her pants. With a gloved hand, she reached out to delicately touch the tiny white flowers, murmuring a soft prayer to the spirits of the forest and the Goddess in thanks, as she always did when she removed anything from the forest, be it animal, leaf, or rock.

She whispered the prayer in her own language, only spoken in the quiet green cathedral of the forest as she hadn’t lived among her own kind for a very long time. Occasionally, Kirinelle would meet with another elf while traveling, but even those meetings seldom occurred anymore. As she opened her eyes and neatly removed a few stems of flowers, she wondered if she could even remember the way back to her childhood home. Across the sea, that much she remembered. Across the and a lifetime away.

Gloved fingers tucked the flowering stems into the basket as she looked the plant over to determine if she could take anything else from it. Kirinelle decided that she couldn’t without inhibiting its growth, so she moved past it to look for more.
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