I see two roads, one carved into the ground. Frequently walked, rode upon. Few weeds, plants, flowers poking trough it's soil. Trees bending over to the sides granting sunshine to the way.
The other filled with greens, made out of loose earth. Filled with colour, filled with life. Most wouldn't even recognize it as a "road". Because it's just the usual greens growing on the side of a road.
It fascinates me how this entire forest is made out of roads. Joining together the story of it's prime. I think it's fascinating how many things exist, that posses power that could kill us. Even things that could save our lives. And that we humans only look at what's given to us.
We needed a shortcut trough the woods, carved a road trough it's greens, and make our way to a single destination using this tool. We keep on using it, so much that the flowers that used ot grow there don't even bother to rise above the ground anymore. Even though there are much prettier roads in this forest that no one sees.
"I walk the one least traveled by and that makes all the difference" I smirked while thinking to myself.
A soft breeze picked up and my loosened hair started obstructing my view. I tried holding it back with my hands but little strands escaped me every time. All of a sudden tanned hands covered my eyes. Slowly pulling my hair back, putting it in a ponytail.
When The sensation of hands disappeared I turned my head to see who had sneaked up behind down behind me smiled a black haired boy with light green eyes.
"Ciaran?" I felt my hair tightly being held together by something. When I reached to my ponytail I felt a soft string holding an amber pearl in the air around the same height of my ears.
"what did you put in my hair?" I asked him. He smiled, " just a little something I bought from a merchant that was passing trough".
I looked at him doubtful "you..BOUGHT something? Why does that seem so weird to me?" "I don't know" he said while shrugging.I laughed and followed him when he stood up.
Standing next to him you could really see the difference between our heights. For a girl I was pretty average in height. Ciaran on the other hand beat almost every other man in our clan when comparing height. His hair was long and looked like black silk, carefully braided over his shoulders. His eyes reminded me a lot of the forest in spring time, emerald green with a few hints of grey.
"Why are you here anyway?" I asked him while dusting dirt off of my blouse. "your brother asked me to come find you" He said with a pleasant voice.
I sighed: "Isn't he a bit too old to be so concerned about me all the time?"
Ciaran laughed, "nah,I think it's cute" I crossed my arms while looking at him with a stern face "you better not tell him that" But I could see on his face he was goin to anyway. Not that it mattered my brother never cared about what Ciaran said or did to him. But when anyone else except me or Ciaran would say anything to him that involved his pure white skin,long silky blonde hair,his piercing amber eyes or his small and frail build...he'd freak out.
Once again I automatically started following Ciaran as he headed back to the village. In one jump he reached the bottom of the cliff I'd been sitting on. He looked up at me "need any help?here,I'll catch you." he said while reaching his arms out ot me.
I shook my head and pushed myself off of the edge of the cliff carefully landing on one of the rocks underneath. From there I climbed down while grasping myself closely to the cliff's walls. When I almost reached the ground Cirian hugged my legs and lifted me up, turned me around and slowly put me down on the ground. While he was still holding my thighs I pushed him away and looked up at him with a dissapointed face.
"you know,I could've done that by myself just fine" Ciaran nodded "I know." After he said that he walked of again not minding anything I said and I followed...
We reached the village soon after. When walking trough the gates Cirian simply pointed at me and said: "I found the little princess." After he said that there was a short silence...but soon everyone started smiling and calling my brother's name: "Fionn-chan,you're little princess has returned!"
