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Before i start writing, i would just like to say im sorry. My internet connection failed yesterday, so my entry for yesterday did not submit.



Lynus was naturally reluctant as he followed the shapeshifter. Her voice was like the song of the Pied Piper, hypnotic in its eloquence. Her appearance was something as if from a dream, yet disturbingly so. She had no pupils, her eyes two milky-white orbs. She sang from thin, colorless lips, a voice like running water emerging. She wore no dress, but a vest and trousers adorned her like what a peasant farmer might wear. Her hair, the color of dried wheat, was tied up by a single azure ribbon into two concentric buns.
None of these things surprised Lynus, for they were commonplace, whereas the shapeshifter herself was not. If it had not been for the hundreds of web-like tattoos that scarred the youthful looking girl, Lynus would have thought her no more than a vagabond. Her eyes would have made him consider her to be blind, but no such thought occurred to him now.
Talia, for that was her name as she had told him, leaped from tree to tree, her shape changing with each movement. Lynus grew dazed by the sight of a howler monkey changing into a squirrel, and then changing to a blue jay without a moments hesitation.
He continued to follow her, yet apprehension seemed to follow him much closer. The forest around them made Lynus feel claustrophobic, hemmed in by the towering redwoods and sequoias. He could hear a stream nearby, quiet and soothing. He felt his feet turn to the sound of their own accord, his mind racing to fight them. His heartbeat quickened and his eyes grew wide. He pulled his pale-green blade from its sheath while his hypnotized fett continued to move towards the sound of running water.
In those moments, he heard Talia's panicked screaming. Lynus abstractedly thought that she must be able to see whatever it was he moved towards from her elevated perch. Flashes of light rained down from the sky, but still Lynus could not stop his obstinate feet. He looked up and saw Talia throwing spells the size and shape of baseballs down upon the ground before him. They glowed with a white-hot light, and even as Talia launched them from her perch, they tore at the ground in front of Lynus.
But whatever force that carried him on pulled him across the gap, and still Lynus moved.






If you want to find out what happens next, keep reading, because I will always be writing.
Yours,
Forever Truly,
Peter.