Chain of Hearts: What Lies Within
As the sun began to set, shades of light pink, orange, and yellow danced on the forest floor. Fallen leaves began to dance in the wind, which started out gentle, yet gained strength as night fell. It was hard to walk straight due to the gaping wounds in my knees that burned the more they were hit by bushes. My arms rested just below my chest, as I tried to warm myself. I looked above through the middle of the tree leaves, and saw many dark gray clouds starting to form, indicating the weather for the rest of the night. I knew that any minute, rain was going to fall upon my head, and I had no way to prevent that. The only thing that I wanted to do know was cry. Cry and think about why I was here, in this situation. But I couldn't, it's just not something that I would do. For all my life I've handle things that went wrong but keeping my emotions bottled up, never to get mad, or sad. And I felt that if I cry now, when no one was around, then that would just mean that all those years of trying to be strong, with or without someone; those were all just for nothing. So I didn't cry, I just continued to walk. As my walking went on, I began to experience how much I felt and how it was compared to the dark cold, wet forest that I was in. in a way, we are alike, just alike. We are both really alone, always having someone there to accompany us, but they never stay. We may not be alone on the outside but we are on the inside. So I tried to think that for now, I'm with someone who understands me perfectly. I walk on and on, in the dark, rainy forest. My satchel continued to hit my side, as my torn black jacket continued to drag along the forest floor, staining itself with mud and rubble. I must've coughed up blood about 5 times. I didn't wish for anything more than to leave the forest. Although I am great in healing magic, my magic was no use for me at the time. During my battle with the fearless nobodies, the only way my magic would've worked would have been if I was fully recharged from sunlight. But in these forests, there is limited amount of sunlight. That's why your healing magic is never useful in a place like this. That's about the worst thing about having only solar rechargeable healing magic. Anyways, the further I walked he more I could here the sound of running water. I didn't know if it was a nearby creek, or just the sound of the rain trickling down on the trees above me. I continued to follow the sound of the water. Luckily, it wasn't just the rain. I came to a stop as I walked in front of a large creek. "Finally" I said in satisfaction. I sat down and took some extra cloth out of my satchel. I dipped the cloth into the creek, and rapped it around my leg. Although the sting felt unbearable, I didn't really have any option. I wrapped both of my legs with the cloth and then put the cloth back into my bag. "Uhhh" I moaned quietly, before yawning. It was now almost 1:00. Even thought I didn't have a watch or any type of technology to figure that out, I learned from the best how to determine time by simply looking at the sky above. Although not much of the sky was visible, I did manage to see a bit of the sky. I was extremely tired by now, and decided that I needed to lay done and rest. I didn't want to fully go to sleep, as I still was afraid and needed to find away out of the creepy forest, but I knew that I at least needed to lay back and just stop moving, at least for 5 minutes. So that's what I did. I went to a nearby tree, and placed my satchel in between my head and the tree bark. I Indian crossed my legs and closed my eyes. I listened carefully to the sound of the running water. It was very peaceful, very majestic. It sounded like I was lost from earth, and now im finally back after about 5 years. The sound of the water mixed with a day full of fighting and aching, drove me right to sleep. I couldn't stay awake any longer. I fell asleep right there, and although it want the best place to rest, it was comfortable enough. That's all I remember before I met HIM!