06-23-2022, 21:58:26 PM
"What?! Nature has never held me hostage!..Well. until now. I've always coexisted with it and been in fear of what it'll do to me if I were to betray it. Haven't you seen people killed by falling trees, poisoned, sent to plummet to their deaths by the cliff cracking just as they walked on it? That's the forest taking its vengeance. It only accepts being flattened down for your mortal cities and farmlands because it knows it's going to be abandoned someday, and then it will have its territory back. It's fussy about moderation, and once someone takes too much..." She picked up a twig and snapped it.
The grass around her seemed to come back to life and bristle.
The grass around her seemed to come back to life and bristle.
If you hear about someone putting characters through intense despair and misery, then that someone is probably me.