Isokuza - Hobbyist, Digital Artist | DeviantArt (original) (raw)

Literature

Red

I exhaled lightly, looking up at the sky. I just finished eating, and I was feeling drowsy. It was a beautiful night, captured straight from my imagination. A gaping, silent darkness with an uncountable number of lights staring at me. I was lying down in a small clearing, with my pack and lantern at my side. I had been wandering for months, and that was one of many stops I had taken. I was looking for a place to settle down, and it proved more difficult than I expected. Nowhere felt right. I looked around, making sure I was alone. The trees that surrounded me weren't very tall, but the forest was dense enough to forget about that. The lantern might as well have been a spotlight, though. I've always had to worry about thieves. I few poor encounters drilled that into my head. The most recent was only a couple days ago, but I didn't have anything valuable to give them. They left me alone once they understood that, but not before they "taught me a lesson." After a silent minute, I