TreesAwake

Prologue Beams of light reflected across the old ruins.  Minuscule particles embedded the weathered stones, causing the stones to have a shimmered glow of a thousand colors.  Many years of elemental exposure had reduced towering columns to mere stumps, grand walls to waist high inconveniences.  Age had allowed the forest to overcome the ruins.  Great oaks had torn apart the stone with immense root systems and brush had cluttered the grounds.  Peace that only time could bring whispered through the ruins, mixed with the slightest hint of sorrow. A young boy, not a day over eleven, hid behind a

Fawns and Cherries Once upon a time there was a beautiful young maiden, who had hair the color of sunbeams and eyes the color of gleaming emeralds dancing through a woodland glade, singing a soft song.  She found herself within the realm of the fawn's tree keep.  The tree keep rose above and around the glade. Reaching around with its branches, the tree kept everything but the fawns out.  But through her dancing, the young maiden had somehow found a way through the branches of the tree.  The fawns jumped to their feet in alarm and to her surprise they began to dance around her, playing their strange ins