Serissa
It was dark.
Though I couldn't see anything, I knew instinctively that I was deep in an ancient forest. The pine needles were soft and fragrant under my bare feet and I could just make out the shadows of huge trees surrounding me through a thick fog that ebbed and swirled around me like a living thing that obscured the world into a dense, dark gray cloud. I waited for panic to set in, a flight or fight response, something! I had no idea where I was. I'd never even been in a forest before. I grew up in the suburbs and moved to the city when I finished school. No one would ever call me “outdoorsy” and I was fine with that. I was an inside girl, the way nature intended.
And yet, the panic never came. I felt peaceful. It was a strange sensation, but relaxing nevertheless. It wasn't
