TSW 7: Arina's Dream

[17:10]	IcePickLobotomy	Time: ??? Location: ???
[17:19]	IcePickLobotomy	The air is cool and damp, the pungent scent of the earth lingers in the wind. It is dark, the towering shapes of the trees looming above you, their titanic forms darker lengths of shadow in the seclusion of the woods. It's night, though you cannot see the sky past the trees, the canopy shrouding the forest in a thick cloying darkness. The ground is bare of plants, with a thin covering of...
[17:19]	IcePickLobotomy	...needles and dirt. The woods are silent, the faint and distant rustle of the wind shifting the branches fades and murmurs before being swallowed by the darkness. You are standing on a path, before you, leads deeper into the woods, the darkness growing thicker and the trees more dense. Behind you, they seem to thin, the air growing lighter.
[17:20]	Arina	looks around, humming to herself.
[17:21]	IcePickLobotomy	More trees, more woods. The trail looks used, though not recently.
[17:22]	Arina	"Well, this isn't ominous at all."
[17:24]	IcePickLobotomy	Your voice carries a short distance before it fades, swallowed up. There's a heavy, oppressive feeling in the air.
[17:26]	Arina	sighs, and starts walking forward.
[17:32]	IcePickLobotomy	The Forrest grows thicker. The trees larger and larger, to the point where each is perhaps a dozen meters in circumference, the first of their branches not even visible. The trail grows rougher, slowly sloping downhill. You stop, seeing a flickering yellow light in the darkness.
[17:34]	Arina	waits, watching the light for a moment.
[17:34]	IcePickLobotomy	It remains still. Unmoving.
[17:35]	Arina	hums quietly, and approaches it.
[17:38]	IcePickLobotomy	You begin to move into a clearing. The light is a worn  coleman lantern, dark green in color with a few spots of rust, standing atop a beaten picnic bench. Next to it is a coin attached to a chain necklace. There is a note half-covered by the lantern as well.
[17:41]	Arina	blinks, and moves up to check out the note.
[17:42]	IcePickLobotomy	The paper is yellowed and pitted with age. The writing, in pencil, is faded but still legible. "From one to another, a light to find your way." it reads.
[17:45]	Arina	chuckles, folding up the note and picking up the lantern. "Much appreciated." She holds it up and casts the light around the clearing.
[17:46]	IcePickLobotomy	It's weighty, but not heavy. The warm yellow light banishing away the dark and leaving pale shadows that stretch along the ground. The trail forks, one path leading back up and into the forest, the other leading deeper down, and you can always turn back as well.
[17:50]	Arina	hums to herself, looking around the three paths as she picks up the necklace and coin and slips them in her pocket. "Probably want to return this..."
[17:52]	Arina	takes the path heading up into the forest.
[17:55]	IcePickLobotomy	The necklace weighs more heavily on your hand than the lantern does. You can feel the weight in your pocket as it settles awkwardly against your body. With the new found light, the path is easier to travel. Soon you see a gap in the trees that reveals a clearing. It's bathed in a warm-pinkish light.
[17:58]	Arina	raises an eyebrow, moving ahead to the clearing.
[18:00]	IcePickLobotomy	And you soon find yourself standing beneath the stars as they twinkle through a red-tinted sky. The moon, stained red by the coloration, hangs low in the sky, and somewhere in the distance, you can hear the sound of the ocean.
[18:01]	Arina	looks up, confused. "... why is it red...?"