I won’t be able to reach you once you step through.”Ĭast your vote here on Patreon! It’s free to vote, all you need is a Patreon account! They will both take you to where there are people.” She murmured. You see the dryad gesture from behind you. One is ringed with blue, the other with red. Your eyes open and you are facing two portals. “There are two places.” She whispers to you. You feel yourself being pulled along and you go willingly.
Please take me to where there are other people.” You half-turn, still with your eyes closed. At least now you can pretend you are not surrounded by it. You close your eyes, unable to take the darkness pressing in on you. Her cheek leaves yours, but the smell of flowers remain. The dryad pauses, her fingers lifting from your frame. “Can you take me to where there are more people?” You ask, wincing as you hear the hope in your voice. Where there is nothing but the slow bubble of hidden creatures.” Where the sunlight only touches for a few moments in the day. Her hair smells like flowers as she presses her cheek to yours. Her cool hands touch your shoulders and you find yourself unable to move. She laughs, a sound like the wind through leaves. “Find your own way.” The dryad whispered, her voice right by your ear. You fumble in the dark, reaching out for her. The dryad is leading you through this black world. But as you look back, the nymph is smiling with her sharpened teeth. Your sight is taken from you as you step into the inky black. It creeps along your arm, her cool hand still holding you, pulling you inside. Your heart races in your chest as the dryad disappears in the inky darkness. She reaches the trunk of the tree and her palm presses into a divot in the wood. She doesn’t stand, so much as glide along the root. Keeping your eye on the nymph in the pool, you cross the bridge, laying your hand into the dryad’s.