Continue the Story: "The Trees Can See"

[Sculpt]

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The Trees Can See.

"My name Timothy Chaplin, I am a explorer from America. I always thought an explorer has nothing to fear from the woodlands. I was wrong. You see I have been cursed to wander the wilderness. I am now but a lost soul seeking freedom from the things that live in the woods. Trees."

My story begins on an investigation on the disappearances of people who went into these woods. These woods were called Normans Woods. Norman was a suppose to be a warlock that worshiped trees. It was in those woods where he disappeared. He was not the only one unfortunately....

[Sculpt]

Belongings of previous "wanderers" were strewn amongst the trees to wait forever to be claimed....

[anglewitch]

When the villagers would search for bodies they would always come back empty handed. Another thing that people noticed was that they never saw one animal in Normans Woods, they never heard any birds singing. It was quiet as a tomb.

[The Bloofer Lady]

But there was one villager who knew a little more about "Norman Woods" than she was letting on.

[anglewitch]

Martha Stevenson. A very strange woman, always kept to her self, never talked to anyone. Many people thought she was an odd one.

[The Bloofer Lady]

Her land bordered the "Woods". Her house was well-kept...with an almost "english cottage" appearance to it.

[anglewitch]

When I learned about this woman, I decided I would pay her a visit. When I reached her front door I began to knock.

[tfantasy]

I'm not a patient person and it seemed like forever before she finally came to the door. I was taken back by her looks; she reminded me of a cross between Betty Davis and Kathy Bates. I felt like I could be looking at a witch, is it possible?

[The Bloofer Lady]

If she was a witch, I felt no fear. This would not be my first encounter with one.

[anglewitch]

I decided that I would be the first to break the ice. " Good morning my name is Timmothy Chaplin and you are?"
" Iza Redding". she replied in an angered tone. " What do you want?"

[The Bloofer Lady]

Well I've learned there's more than one way to skin a donkey. I decided to turn on the Chaplin charm (legendary, if I'm honest). "My kingdom for a drink of water, dear lady!" I chirped winningly.

[anglewitch]

She did not reply. I thought that she would invite me in instead she closed the door and did not reopen it.

[The Bloofer Lady]

Interesting...unexpected..but interesting none the less. I made my way to leave when a voice coming from the upper window stopped me.

[anglewitch]

I looked up at the window and saw an old man. He kept on saying " come back....... Come baaaaccccckkkkk."

[The Bloofer Lady]

I motioned for him to be quiet and snuck around to the back of the house. I just had time to duck behind a woodpile as the back door opened!

[anglewitch]

It was Iza. She was carrying a burlap bag. She was heading for Normans woods.

[The Bloofer Lady]

I decided, for the while, the old man in the house would be safe..if he was indeed even in any danger. I held back a minute and then followed her.

[anglewitch]

We went deep into the woods. We finally came to an enormous. Amazed by this enormous tree I realized that I lost sight of liza.

[tfantasy]

I was very drawn to the tree, it was pulling me closer to it. I began to feel very light one my feet, as though I was floating in mid-air.

[anglewitch]

The sky was turning black with storm clouds. Voices were coming from everywhere "Come come, come and see the wonders of the forest come....... come". The churning storm clouds began to mix with wind, rain, lightning then into a raging cyclone. I managed to see the tree in the darkness next to it was standing the old man I saw from the street. Then every thing went black. I woke up the next morning and saw....

[The Bloofer Lady]

...scorched earth surrounding me in a large circle. The enormous tree was..gone! My hands were trembling and I felt very unsettled indeed!

[tfantasy]

I was unsure what to do or if I should even move at the moment. Suddenly, I heard a woman's voice.

[The Bloofer Lady]

I turned my head as she stepped toward me. She was unlike anything I had seen before. Her skin was coppery brown and she stood over 7 feet tall but as thin boned as a small child. She had no eyes..only openings..and no hair on her head.

[Jake.Ashworth]

She was beautiful in a strange way. She reached out her thin arms, beckoning me to come to her. The air around her seemed to shimmer and ripple.

[The Bloofer Lady]

I wasn't afraid..far from it to be honest. The rippling around her intensified and I noticed small appendages round her torso that appeared to hold pulsing organs..a heart or lungs possibly? As I started towards her my foot struck a protrusion from the scorched earth. I looked down to see the bloody half of a human face!

[Jake.Ashworth]

I stalled for a moment, looking closer at the mangled thing. Then horror surged through my body. The destroyed thing that used to be a face, was my own staring blankly up at me. My hands shot straight to my face.

[The Bloofer Lady]

They clamped reassuringly on my face and I didn't want to let go. I felt weak with relief but peered through my fingers at the horror that lay at my feet. Then the earth opened up to swallow the face and pulled me along with it.

[Jake.Ashworth]

I scratched and clawed at the ground trying to keep myself above the earth. The woman reached out for me as if she were trying to help.

[The Bloofer Lady]

In the spiralling sand I was twisted to and fro, all the while trying to avoid the dead mirror face. Everything came to a standstill and the woman made to grasp at me but all I could do was...
fall.

[Jake.Ashworth]

I felt the earth close in around me and watched as the last speck of light faded away. Sinking through the dirt I could feel the roots of trees scraping along my arms and legs like pointy fingertips.

[anglewitch]

I tried to free myself. I began screaming at the top of my lungs! No one could hear me.

[Jake.Ashworth]

Then suddenly, just as I thought I was going to suffocate in the earth, I spilled out falling from the ceiling of a huge room. I must have fallen thirty feet into a pile of soft dirt. I looked around, shocked and unsure of where I was.

[The Bloofer Lady]

My mind was reeling as I looked around at what appeared to be a deep cellar. Questions pounded my weary brain. My half-face, the woman creature up above..was all this something to do with the secret of Norman Woods?

[Jake.Ashworth]

I could barely see up to the ceiling I had just fallen through and I wasn't sure but I thought I could see the roots of trees twisting and intertwining like snakes on the ceiling. I stood slowly dusting myself off and looking around taking in my surroundings.

[The Bloofer Lady]

My very bones felt wretched and I now could imagine how a newborn felt being squeezed into the world. But what world had I been born into? I surmised that somehow I was underneath that mammoth tree I had followed Liza to.

[tfantasy]

It was pitch black and I slowly felt my way around the room, trying not to trip over something and hoping I wasn't going to run into the headless horseman from Sleepy Hollow.

[anglewitch]

I began to see a small glow ahead of me. I stopped, I started to hear a moan. I began to turn back when I heard another sound.

[The Bloofer Lady]

It was music! And what I thought was a moan, was gentle singing. It was coming from the area of the small glow.

[anglewitch]

I was drawn toward the direction from where the music was coming from. I felt tired.

[tfantasy]

I could feel myself walking towards the glow, yet, I felt like something was calling me to the glow. Was I being hypnotized?

[The Bloofer Lady]

As I slowly walked(almost zombie-like) to the tarnished glow, I found myself crouching as the ceiling got lower....good Lord, not another tunnel! Where would this one lead to?

[tfantasy]

I started crawling through the tunnel. Normally, I would feel claustrophobic but because I am under some unexplainable spell, I feel nothing but the thoughts of moving forward. Where the hell was I being summoned to?

[Jake.Ashworth]

Then just as I thought the tunnel would get to small for my shoulders, I pulled myself through a small opening into the room the small light was coming from. I worked my way to my feet looking slowly around the room for any danger. The music had become louder as I crawled through the tunnel and now it was blaring.

[The Bloofer Lady]

The oddest compulsion crossed my mind to quickly turn around and go back the way I had come. Then a door on the other side of the room swung open.

[Jake.Ashworth]

As my mind was still trying to sort through the thought to leave and the sound of the door banging against the wall a flash shot through the door and before I could react a giant hand wrapped its fingers around my body. I tried to scream out but it was squeezing so tightly that I couldn't get the wind.

[The Bloofer Lady]

That was the last straw...the weirdness of this all! I went totally limp and surrendered to the engulfing hand. Afterall, sometimes when its all too much, don't we just crave someone to take over?

[tfantasy]

What were the odds that I was be taken away by King Kong? How did he even find me in this tunnel? Maybe there's some kind of invisible hallucinogenic floating in the air and all of this is just a really bad dream. I feel like I should be in an insane asylum; I am being squeezed by a giant hand, I hear really loud music, and I just caught a glimpse of an elf running down another tunnel.

[The Bloofer Lady]

"Sir! Sir? Can you tell us your name?" The doctor gently shook the man in the straitjacket but got no response. "What time did they bring him in?" he asked of the nurse. "During the night. They found him flailing around outside some poor woman's house. Screamin' about tunnels and giant trees. The woman called the police. Odd clothes though, real old fashioned-like".

[anglewitch]

Well what ever happened to him must have happened in the woods we found leaves and dirt all over him when we picked him up.

[The Bloofer Lady]

The doctor appeared to be deep in thought as he stared at the patient. "You know this isn't the first time I've heard of this happening. Seems to me, years back, a old woman was found in this state. Same thing, covered in debris from a forest.

[tfantasy]

"We won't be able to truly question him until he is fully awake. Go ahead and give him something to help him go back to sleep, I feel he needs more rest at this time. Mean while, I am going back to my office and see if I can dig up any information on the old woman."

The nurse replied, "Okay. Should we still keep him strapped up?"

"Yes, I do not trust him right now."

[The Bloofer Lady]

"Do you think he's dangerous?" the nurse asked. "Well, probably more to himself than us...at any rate I'll be in my office if you need me."
I was processing the conversation between the nurse and the doctor. Why was I strapped up and where was I now? But a divine sleepiness started to muddle my thoughts...

[Jake.Ashworth]

The next thing I knew my eyes where opening slowly to a well lit room. There where windows along the far wall with bars on them, and bright fluorescents overhead despite the sunlight surging in through the windows. I tried to reach up to rub this dizzy feeling out of my head but my arms where still bound.

[The Bloofer Lady]

I struggled for a minute but then fell complacent. I was safe, warm...why struggle? No crazy hallucinations..alien women and rooms under trees! Then I saw the thing in the corner of the room...

[Jake.Ashworth]

It wasn't moving short of the swelling of its body with every choked breath. I couldn't tell what it was but it was hairy all over and made sort of a snarling sound when it exhaled. I thought about trying to get out, but it may hear me.

[anglewitch]

I had to risk it I began to move slowly.

[Jake.Ashworth]

I had to risk it I began to move slowly.

Just as I lifted my hand the beast's head whipped around in a frenzy, drool flying from its gaping mouth.

[anglewitch]

I began to run but then......

[Jake.Ashworth]

I realized I was still chained to the bed by my wrists. When I took off the bed lurched forward and caught in the door. The beast charged me from the corner.

[anglewitch]

It slashed at my wrists and face I was doomed.

[Jake.Ashworth]

Just then the chains broke free and I plummeted to the ground screaming in pain. The doctors rushed down the hall towards me as I realized there where no cuts and no blood.

[anglewitch]

The doctor injected me with a sedative.

[Jake.Ashworth]

I screamed a flailed as the large men held me to the ground. The sedative kicked in all of a sudden and I felt my body go limp. My eyes fuzzed over but I did not lose consciousness. I asked in a garbled, slurred voice "Whats happening to me".

[anglewitch]

My eyes finally glazed over. I finally reawakened. I found myself in a different room.

[Jake.Ashworth]

This time I was not tied down. I looked around as I regained my bearings. I was sitting up on a bed, or gurney. The room was round and about ten feet off the ground there was theater seating going up from there. I knew I had seen this before, but where?

[anglewitch]

AHHHHH you cant try to end it Angel... There is still so much story here. Kill that last post and Ill kill mine and we can try to let someone else jump in.

I will edit my last post then you can get back to work on it.

[anglewitch]

Dirt was on the floor, tree roots were coming through the ceiling. I finally remembered.

[Jake.Ashworth]

I was in the room under the woods where the ground swallowed me up. As I sat there trying to pull these dark memories out of my head a door swung open and in walked another doctor. But something was different about her, she looked familiar as well. The roots above me stretched out and wrapped themselves around my wrists and ankles.

[anglewitch]

I then saw liza. She was laughing like crazy not that she was already.

[The Bloofer Lady]

Back at the hospital, the doctor stared incredulously into the missing patient's room. "Good God" he thought to himself "It's happened again!". The file he had looked up on the old woman who had showed up under similar circumstances years ago...she ,too, had simply vanished.

[anglewitch]

What could this mean? The words repeated several times in the doctors mind