The Mystic Stables
THE COPSE - SUBRAINFOREST
You pick you way through the thick barrier of vines and step into a smaller area that is indeed slightly warmer than the last. Or perhaps it just seems that way because it is far more heavy wooded than the last area. All around you are large leaves and roots thicker than your own body. Huge trunks of obviously ancient trees span hundreds of feet into the air. You look up into the air through a crevice in the leafy canopy and make out the dark roof of the immense cavern, craged and pitted and dark from such a distance. It must be a thousand feet up at least...perhaps more!
The walk over the uneven ground, hopping giant roots and climbing through vines as thick as you arms. The sheer beauty of this place, so ancient and grown wild, takes you in. The life and energy of the place can be felt flowing all around you. You try to guess the age of the place by the sheer size of its native plants and cannot even fathom it. Thousands of years...you whisper it to yourself and wonder...
"It is, you know."
You whirl at the sound of a strange voice in this place you thought was completely devoid of animals and cast your eyes up to the trees, then down to the ground behind the huge root on which you perch. An animal is there! It's color blends perfectly with the dark grass and you realize that the beauty of this place had so completely distracted you that you had wandered right past the small creature!
You slide off your root tenatively and approach the creature. It slowly raises from its resting place and bows down to you, introducing itself with the brazen confidence and uncertain balance of youth. "I am Gisha'!lith, or Charred Rose." You think that her color matches her name for a moment, until your attention is snapped back into place by her continued speech. "I am a cub of the Tringarri Tribe of the Tringarr Jungle, my homeland. Azrielen journeyed very far to bring me home, and I remember that long trip back by boat and caravan and even airglider! I am one of the first residents of this place!"
You ask the young filly where exactly this place is, and she smiles widely, obviously excited by the idea of giving you a tour of her little area. As she leads you, she continues to speak. "This, fair travelor, is the Subterranian RainForest, which is indeed as ancient as you think, or maybe even older. It is only halfway explored, as the cavern that houses it is immense and a dangerous place, so overgrown that hiking into its oldest depths is very hard, indeed! It is believed that this place has been here for millenia. It was only recently opened for creatures such as myself to move in, and I love it here, mostly because I enjoy discovering new things! This place, its bedrock and even the cavern walls themselves, yield many fossilized bones and ancient artifacts of the people who once lives here so long ago. I lvoe finding such lovely things!" She points to a windchime high up in the largest tree you've ever seen. "That chime is made from small bone fragments and pieces of ancient glass and metal found in this very area I call home during the first expedition into this place. The Lady Azrielen gave them to me to make beautiful music when I first came here!"
She goes on and one about this place, showing you the major sites of her area. Before she sees you off, she shows you a place where you can see a large crack in the rook of the cavern that punches through the very side of the mountain and through which deep blackness dotted with bright stars can be seen. She shows you some more of the artifacts and the places where they were found along the base of the cavern's wall. It is all beautiful and mesmerizing, and when it is time for you to go, you protest strongly. But the young filly is tired from all the excitement - even you can see that - and you take your leave as she settles down between the roots in the same place that you first found her.....
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You look behind you and see the veil of impossibly thick vines that mark the path you took from the last chamber. You could return down that path to The Kodikib's Lair or you could follow a new path off you you right. You feel warm air wafting from that direction, but this time it is not any warmer than the place you are now. Smells of the RainForest fill you nostrils as that wind wafts you. You could follow that hypnotizing pull of exploration into another section of the Sub-RainForest, or you could simply harness the energy of the life within this cavernous place to take you up into the Mystic Stables again..... | ||
Though you can see almost nothing through the thick foliage, you remember the directions from your journey through the Mystic Meadows. Onward to the NorthWest is the verdant and shining green of the many Sha Fields, while going back out the way you came will take you back toward the Equaritha Fields.....
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