Amber walked on and on still, through the dark and misty forest, with the
music as her guide. A cold chill swept through the trees, Amber shivered.
This was getting her nowhere. She'd been walking for what, half an hour?
She didn't know where she was, why she was where she was and how to get
back. It was absolutely pointless. She might as well just turn around,
forget about the music, get back to the village and carry on living her
life like nothing happened. Yes, her perfect, untroubled, easy and-
'Absolutely dismal life' groaned Amber.
She sighed. She was right, her life was dismal. How she didn't see it
before she would never know, but there something about that music that made
her realise it. In all the time she had been walking that night she'd been
trying to work out why she started following the music in the first place,
she even had half a mind to turn back and forget it, but she couldn't, she
just couldn't, everytime she tried to turn back and she heard that tune
again, it made her even more curious as to where it came from and who was
playing it. It was like an invisible rope was tied around her waist and
pulled her towards the music whether she wanted to or not.
The panflute music started up again, this time more loudly. She was so
close, she was faced with a dark bumpy road, just a few more minutes
walking down this path and it would lead me to, what? Salvation, the
answer to my problems, or would it just lead me to this drunk idiot lost in
the woods who just happened to be good at playing the panflute. And what
if something happened to her, she could fall down a hole, starve to death
and get eaten by armadillos, or maybe a toucan bird could pick her up, fly
away with her and drop her off a cliff. She was about turn back and go
back down the other path that looked more promising, making up lame excuses
as she went, when she immediately turned around and started walking the
other way. It was that rope again, it was pulling at her more than ever,
damn that bloody rope!
'Okay, okay think about this Amber. You could go that way where you
could possibly get eaten by armadillos or get dropped off a cliff by a
toucan bird, or you could go back where you came, not be faced with
armadillos and toucan birds but be faced with a boring, uninteresting life
where your main purpose in life is to get married and have kids. Left or
right, left or right, think! Think Amber!'
She kept walking down each path and automatically turned around again and
went the other way. Eventually she stopped right in the middle. She would
have to make the desicion right now. This miute. This second. Okay, now.
No, now. Now!
Just pick a bloody path!
'Fine!' Amber screamed and before you knew it she went charging down the
bumpy road towards the music, the darkness of the road envoloping around
her and saying 'I'm an idiot' at every step, but with every step the music
got louder and louder. She sees a patch of the pink early morning sky and
rushes towards it. At this point you would have thought 'finally, she's
gonna find prince charming who's gonna love her for all time and they'll
live happily ever after', well I wouldn't say prince charming but something
a little different.
Anyway, Amber rushed towards the light, without even thinking and instead
of finding a clear path on flat easy to walk land, she found a ledge, a
steep ledge. Amber came tumbling down and fell right into a tree, she was
about to fall down into the lake below when she plonked on a large tree
branch that broke her fall, she struggled to get up when she noticed
someone sitting at the end with their back against the tree, their eyes met
for a minute before there was a loud crack and in a split second the other
person climbed up to the branch above.
'Hey wait!' cried Amber
But it was too late, the branch gave in and with a lod snap the branch
along with poor Amber came down and landed right in the river with a
splash.
Up above the person was watching from the tree branch.
'Oooh that's gotta hurt. Oh well, atleast i'm alright'
Creak, went the branch
'Uh oh'
music as her guide. A cold chill swept through the trees, Amber shivered.
This was getting her nowhere. She'd been walking for what, half an hour?
She didn't know where she was, why she was where she was and how to get
back. It was absolutely pointless. She might as well just turn around,
forget about the music, get back to the village and carry on living her
life like nothing happened. Yes, her perfect, untroubled, easy and-
'Absolutely dismal life' groaned Amber.
She sighed. She was right, her life was dismal. How she didn't see it
before she would never know, but there something about that music that made
her realise it. In all the time she had been walking that night she'd been
trying to work out why she started following the music in the first place,
she even had half a mind to turn back and forget it, but she couldn't, she
just couldn't, everytime she tried to turn back and she heard that tune
again, it made her even more curious as to where it came from and who was
playing it. It was like an invisible rope was tied around her waist and
pulled her towards the music whether she wanted to or not.
The panflute music started up again, this time more loudly. She was so
close, she was faced with a dark bumpy road, just a few more minutes
walking down this path and it would lead me to, what? Salvation, the
answer to my problems, or would it just lead me to this drunk idiot lost in
the woods who just happened to be good at playing the panflute. And what
if something happened to her, she could fall down a hole, starve to death
and get eaten by armadillos, or maybe a toucan bird could pick her up, fly
away with her and drop her off a cliff. She was about turn back and go
back down the other path that looked more promising, making up lame excuses
as she went, when she immediately turned around and started walking the
other way. It was that rope again, it was pulling at her more than ever,
damn that bloody rope!
'Okay, okay think about this Amber. You could go that way where you
could possibly get eaten by armadillos or get dropped off a cliff by a
toucan bird, or you could go back where you came, not be faced with
armadillos and toucan birds but be faced with a boring, uninteresting life
where your main purpose in life is to get married and have kids. Left or
right, left or right, think! Think Amber!'
She kept walking down each path and automatically turned around again and
went the other way. Eventually she stopped right in the middle. She would
have to make the desicion right now. This miute. This second. Okay, now.
No, now. Now!
Just pick a bloody path!
'Fine!' Amber screamed and before you knew it she went charging down the
bumpy road towards the music, the darkness of the road envoloping around
her and saying 'I'm an idiot' at every step, but with every step the music
got louder and louder. She sees a patch of the pink early morning sky and
rushes towards it. At this point you would have thought 'finally, she's
gonna find prince charming who's gonna love her for all time and they'll
live happily ever after', well I wouldn't say prince charming but something
a little different.
Anyway, Amber rushed towards the light, without even thinking and instead
of finding a clear path on flat easy to walk land, she found a ledge, a
steep ledge. Amber came tumbling down and fell right into a tree, she was
about to fall down into the lake below when she plonked on a large tree
branch that broke her fall, she struggled to get up when she noticed
someone sitting at the end with their back against the tree, their eyes met
for a minute before there was a loud crack and in a split second the other
person climbed up to the branch above.
'Hey wait!' cried Amber
But it was too late, the branch gave in and with a lod snap the branch
along with poor Amber came down and landed right in the river with a
splash.
Up above the person was watching from the tree branch.
'Oooh that's gotta hurt. Oh well, atleast i'm alright'
Creak, went the branch
'Uh oh'