Crossing boundaries: Chapter 2

"Pietre , GET UP!! "...shouted Mrs. Strutee. Pietre woke with a shock, she had the blurred remembrance of a dream wherein two dwarves were conversing. She shook her head with an effort to drop of the memory. The dwarves looked terrifying, she tried to recollect their appearances. One was short and his skin was fragile and scarred, the other one was taller compared to the first dwarf, but his eyes...yes his eyes, Pietre could not forget the fire which represented the anger in the dwarf's eyes. She neglected her fears and signs which screamed in her head the same words "LEAVE THE HOME, GET OUT OF THE FOREST", dreams rarely come true, especially dreams of dwarves, they did not exist at all.

Pietre and Aimy started exploring the forest. They were glad to hear the pleasant chirping of birds and feel the soft breeze . The trees looked healthy and happy and the various colors on the leaves gave a heavenly beauty and serenity to the forest. Pietre's spirits soon rose high and she cursed herself for having suspected some magical existence in the Narmug forest.

Pietre and Aimy found a fresh spring nearby and started playing there, soon they started chasing each other. They wandered deep inside the forest and entered the Thamika boundary. They were caught unaware when they saw a much much denser forest area, it was so dark that they would have sworn it was late night. The trees were thicker and the Sun lord's powers came to nothing in comparison to denseness of the trees, He kept fighting but in vain, his rays could not seep through the denseness, hence this part of the forest was in darkness.


Pietre was afraid to see the darkness in the morning, she tried to conceal it for fear that it might alarm her younger sister. Her immediate thought was to get back to home, so they started their detour only to find that they had lost their way. Pietre was hoping that she would find the way soon, but it appeared like a maze, they kept going in rounds only to find that every place looked similar and they could not distinguish. It kept growing darker and darker as night drew upon the day. Soon it became pitch dark and it looked like black ink was smudged over. "Let's take rest for a while Aimy...I can’t see anything in the darkness." Aimy started to weep, she was tired and hungry and they had been walking the entire day in search of their home. "I’m hungry and my legs are hurting, Pietre I want to go home, I want to see mama and papa". "Now, now Aimy..we are just lost, I will go and find a safe place for us to rest and in the morning we can easily find our way home....now there smile little mouse".