forest

For a week she had tried to learn how to hunt with her bare hands and a knife. In contrast to some of her tribesmen, she didn’t believe in trapping. She didn’t like the idea of imprisoning the animal before the kill. The kill had to be clean and swift. The animal should die as a free being, allowed to bolt away or fight back. When using traps, such was not possible. The challenge was the whole point of hunting, with traps there were no challenge, no race.

When I write in this little book, my mind usually is an uncontrollable storm, an chaotic sense of fear but also hope. Fun fact is that I didn't write too much about my thoughts, my opinions and maybe that is because I don't think is not that necessary... but this week is an exception.

It has been a long time since I didn't went back to Bree, long time walking trough the lifeless and silent roads of The Lone Lands. I miss the evergreen plains and the forest that spread its woods to everyplace. So one day i went back to Bree, and heard after days the noise of the horses, the chant of the bards, the propaganda of the merchants, the blades crushing in the forge... all that combination of sounds, something that I usually heard before, are nothing more than noise... one that is really disgusting now.

Mordonis gracefully stepped between the trees, the twisted briars of bramble seemed to unfurl and part before her only to return to their twisted tangled form on her passing. The trees themselves seemed to almost lean as she passed like a compassionate guard of honour.

The sun shone brightly on the clear blue sky, the sunlight piercing through the dense canopy of trees in Far Chetwood. The seemingly undisturbed peace and quiet within the forest could fool almost anyone that it was devoid of life – but Maevelen knew better than that. Despite the dark stories and rumors regarding the forest, Far Chetwood was teeming with wildlife – it was all a matter of knowing where to look and knowing to listen; the fine tracker senses the elven huntress possessed also helped greatly.