Boarding school with Clare and Eli.
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Eli's POV
I always loved the woods. The soft crackling of leaves under your feet in the autumn, when the leaves decided to drop from the trees. The soft rustling of the trees in the wind. Especially in the dark it is beautiful. A lot of people are scared for the dark, for the woods. But if you know where to look, how to listenen to the trees... You just need to focuse on the beauty of it all. There are sounds, animals, things you would never see in the daylight. The shoft shuffling of doubting animals, whether it was dark enough to get out of their burrows, to taste the life outside of those earthen walls. The soft shining of the silver moon, that baptizes everything in a sort of magical glow.
Yeah, the woods are a lot. Magical, beautiful, warm, mysterious. A lot, but not scary.
Clare's POV
First I was scared. The dark made the trees look like figures, like people, watching you, following you with their eyes. Every sound made my heart beat a little faster. How the shadows made everything look lugubrious.
But then I noticed how relaxed Eli was. How he took my hand and whispered how beautiful it all was. I didn't understand him at first. How was such a scary place beautiful? But didn't everything had its beauty? You just needed to see it. I tried to put my fear aside and looked at the waving trees. Like they were saying hello to us, instead of the scary goodbye I pictured. I saw a small animal hiding behind a tree. Looking at us with big eyes and with his ears down against his back. I realised what that animal would think, if it could think. We were the intruders of his domain. He couldn't be here in the daylight because of the bigger animals and all the people which undoubtly came here to walk through the forest. And now, when it was his time to go outside, to find food, we came. I felt bad and wanted to walk away, go home. Not because I was scared, no. Because I felt like an intruder to all these animals. This was there domain, not mine.
Eli took me to our place. The clearing in the middle of the forest. I thought that it was pretty impressive that he could find the place in the middle of the night. I would have never found it without him. I began to walk closer to him, realising that if I lost him here, I needed to wait till the daylight before I could find my way out of here. Waiting all alone in the dark, not forget to mention in the woods, a whole night was something I'd rather didn't do.
'Listen.' Eli whispered to me. I tried to listen to the woods, but there where just so much sounds. Sounds who sounded endless, like the would go on forever. Never stop. Like the wind would keep teasing the trees forever. Like the animals would keep shuffling through the dead leafs, without even a small pause. like this night was endless. Like the sun would never show his glowing, shining face here ever again. As if the sun would forget this little spot on the planet earth. Forgotten. A word that sounded like a beautiful promise to me right now, just keep walking here with Eli. Talk, laugh with him. But it was also a frightening word. Because nobody, nothing, wants to be forgotten. Not even when it sounds so beautiful, so powerful.
Because that was one thing the sun was good in, it would never forget a place. Every little place would get as much sunlight as it deserved. And that logic brought me back to the reality. The sun would come. Even if I didn't wanted it to make a new day again. Because even this place, how magical and also cold it looked in the dark, wouldn't be forgotten.