Chapter Two: Curious Discoveries

Dusk...

I have found shelter, under a dense cluster of trees. It is starting to rain and it is dark and misty. This lush forest seems like it is enough to live by. To the untrained eye. Everything is inedible. The fruit, poisonous. There are no animals that live here. I have not seen even a gull, the most common bird, for weeks. Those birds live off of anything edible.

Maybe sometime soon I will find the others and her. I haven't seen her for days...I hope she hasn't found her way to the Gallow's Pathway. She would not make that journey alone. Although, other than I, she was always the strongest one. Perhaps she did go, what am I to do? Her and I are the only ones who can walk that path, if she even did find it. Would she leave this world without me?

Dusk...same time.

It seems that I have lost him. Or he has given up on me. I don't know if i am relieved or saddened. When is it going to stop raining? I may never know. The sun seems to have abandoned us, and left us to wander in these misty woods. I am ever curious about these new creatures that I discovered earlier today. They were by a small pool of water, in a clearing of the forest.

They seem to be a new dangerous unicorn hybrid, with their blood-red fur and long reddish-brown curvy, swirling horns. The only thing that makes them different from their white relatives would be their small, sharp fangs and the dark purple and red feathers that grow as their manes, and a small tuft of feathers at the end of their lion's tail.

Maybe I'll learn more of them yet.

Early morning...

I still have not seen any sign of life here, other than the forest itself. I wonder sometimes if it could swallow me whole. Or maybe I am going crazy. All I can think about is her. I really do love her, and if she only knew...maybe things would have been different. But if I am ever to see her again I have to keep going. Even though I may go insane from these misty forests, always shady and changing paths.

Maybe I will find the Gallow's Pathway and wait there for her. Perhaps our people have found the pathway and are there, waiting for us, to travel to the next world.

Hopefully a different world then this one.

Late afternoon...

I wish he was here. It was always so comforting to me, to have him beside me. But I know I cannot have him here. I hope he doesn't look for me. I must do this on my own. If he is smart, he will look for the Gallow's Pathway.I was being the curious cat and watching the 'hybrid' unicorns fighting among themselves, over what, I don't know. One of them killed the other, and that was when I discovered they were cannibals. But I can't really blame them, perhaps their prey has perished from the plague. I figure they must be immune to it then...perhaps they are the key to saving the rest of our race? Maybe it was fate that lead me here to find these strange creatures.

Sometime after dusk...

This afternoon I saw something in the mists, I thought it was a human, maybe it was her. I ran after the human-like shadow and followed it through the misty forest into a clearing.

Turns out it wasn't her. I am now sitting in a small village with the cat-people of Aer'non. They are relatively like us, but more cat-like of course, with large cat ears on top of their heads, finger-like paws instead of hands, toe-like hind paws like our feet, various long tails, fur that covered their bodies and came in different shades with distinct markings, and their eyes were something like I've never seen before. Their eyes were like a normal cat's eye, except reverse. All black, except for a slit of color in the center.

They don't speak English, but have been nice enough to invite me to stay for a little while. Or at least I think they have. They live in small muddy-straw huts that are large and round, and smartly placed in the trees away from any predators that I don't know about. I have never been outside Hyacinthe, there was never any need to leave, and no one ever felt curious enough to explore outside the country.

I wonder how she is doing right now.

I was in quite a daze when I wrote this, and I have part of a chapter three done. I wrote this like two years ago, but I recently decided I liked it, and I'm trying to figure out what my master plan was for this. So please let me know your feelings on this, and what could be done to improve on it, or any suggestions at all. In chapter three, I was planning to step out of the journal entries for some live character interaction.