I jumped up with a reserve of energy I didn"t know I possessed and spun around.
A woman sat on a branch behind me. A woman I was damn sure hadn"t been there when I arrived. Even my befuddled brain would have registered someone like her.
She was just as out of place on that land as I was.
She stood slowly, the branch she sat upon miraculously not cracking with her weight. It didn"t even bend a little.
The first thing I registered about her was her height. She was taller than my six feet by a few inches.
The second thing was her glow. Like the planets, she seemed to be glowing from within. Her long, lustrous red hair glowed down her back in soft waves. Her green eyes and alabaster skin shone as well.
She wore a green medieval dress with layers of teal-green taffeta and a small brooch o
