Forest
You enter the forest. It's a very cheerful place. Sunlight filtering through the branches.
Pine needles underfoot. Beautiful, really. You notice a strange creature sitting on
a rock nearby. She's staring off into space, with a kind of dreamy look. You don't want
to startle her, but you accidently step on a twig. The *snap* echoes. The creature jumps
about a foot in the air. Oops. Ah well, you tried.
The creature comes out from behind a tree. "Hello, outlander." she says shyly. "I'm Liste, a
hippogryph. (Ah. So that's what she is.)
Liste (pronounced list) means leaf. It fits me because I'm always
staring off into space, listening to a song only I can hear. I'm from
Starluck's Sweetwater Valley
. It's such a beautiful place, you should visit. In fact, this forest was planted from a seedling
from Sweetwater Valley."
"If you want, I can show you the rest of the forest." You nod quickly, following her down the sunlit path.
You don't want to scare anybody else.
"This forest is going to have unicorns! This is a unicorn egg."
You smile indulgently.
A flash of movement catches your eye, and you look up.
Just in time to see a gold and crimson tail whisk around a tree.
Bemused, you ask Liste what it is.
"Oh, that's a ginnal, also from
The Silver Unicorn
. They're very pretty, and very wild. We have two: Russa and Chitter.
They're both bonded to Phoenix. Russa is a lot more secretive...Look,
there she goes!" You look up just in time to see Russa execute a graceful
leap from tree to tree, grabbing a small, shiny leaf in midflight.
With her tail streaming behind her and the sun
trying its hardest to make her gleaming coat blinding, she is a glorious
(if small) sight.
You seem to pass the test. Chitter steps behind a tree for a minute and comes out with
a leaf. It is red and gold, just like him. Liste informs you that it's from
his native woods. As you watch Chitter playing with the leaf, it occurs to you that his birthplace
must be a beautiful place.
You continue along the sunlit path. Suddenly a large ball of sky-blue fur hits you from behind. As you roll on the forest floor, you notice that the blue furball is actually some kind of foxlike animal.
"I'm a Cypris, from
Syriuu's Cypris.org
." says the child very fast, hopping from foot to foot. "I'm a Cloud Cypran too, which makes me very cheerful and easygoing. Wanna see my beanie?"
Turning around, you see the cub's toy lying in a patch of grass.
From here, you can see the
beach
. It looks inviting, the sands as golden as Russa's fur.
You can also go up a steep winding path to the
mountains
. And, there's a
castle
not too far off.