The inside of the cabin was comforting, but the call of the Grove forest was too strong to resist.
They walked back outside. The air was cool, smelling of damp moss and clover. Leela looked around at the tall trees surrounding them, their bark shimmering with blue-gold bioluminescence. It felt less like a forest and more like a spectacle of light.
She sighed, letting the day finally begin to ease away.
“It’s so beautiful,” she whispered. "I wish I had a hammock. This would be the perfect spot to relax and sleep." She looked at a spot on the ground and thought about a beautiful hammock. No sooner had the thought popped into her head than the ground beneath her feet trembled.
Two small saplings burst from the forest floor just a few yards away, spiraling upward with lightening speed unti
