Nephele's Wanderings
1. Exploration- Culturally Modified Trees
The trees weren’t just cut down, they were taken. Even from where she stands, she can see more of those deep, long, narrow holes on many of the stumps. At the same time, however, she sees a forest of new growth, nursed by the giants that once stood there. Every stump is capped in moss, grasses, saplings, creeping vines and flowers. Entire colonies of ants and termites have homed themselves in some of the stumps. Small rodents and birds have hollowed out their own spaces, picking out worms and beetles, trilliums and salal, filling their bellies and lining their nests. This part of the forest is undoubtedly haunted by something, some dark greed that took so many of the trees with it, but that feeling is fading with the new life springing up in its wake.
The trees weren’t just cut down, they were taken. Even from where she stands, she can see more of those deep, long, narrow holes on many of the stumps. At the same time, however, she sees a forest of new growth, nursed by the giants that once stood there. Every stump is capped in moss, grasses, saplings, creeping vines and flowers. Entire colonies of ants and termites have homed themselves in some of the stumps. Small rodents and birds have hollowed out their own spaces, picking out worms and beetles, trilliums and salal, filling their bellies and lining their nests. This part of the forest is undoubtedly haunted by something, some dark greed that took so many of the trees with it, but that feeling is fading with the new life springing up in its wake.