This writing is a prelude (sort of) to Cardinal Sins! If you enjoy it, please feel free to ask to be added to the CS taglist, where you will be tagged in snippets, character sheets and playlists!
Within the heart of the forest, there is stillness. The trees stand tall and proud where no breeze dares to disturb them, their hulking figures drenching the forest floor in their protective shadows.
There is what was once a clearing, where wildlife carefully scamper around, clearly aware of the fact that they are on sacred ground. The sun streams through the dense forestry in sparse freckles of light, falling in a halo upon a coffin made of glass. Around it grows wild bushes of thorned roses, and, further out, tall strands of hemlock, warning off any creature that dares to approach it.
The silence stretches, broken only by the gentle chirps of a single Robin, who gently lays a berry at the base of the ring of hemlock, before fluttering away.
The wind begins to stir, gently, perhaps in warning, or something more excited. Moments away, there is the sound of a metal gate opening, a gate that no person should be able to open with their bare hands alone. The gate to the forest.
