*read part one first

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You are in your imagination world again.

“You’re back.” Says the girl, so close to your face that you jump, startled.

She steps back, and reveals the landscape behind you.

You’re on the edge of a forest, but you can still see the scratchy field stretching behind you.

“Would you like me to answer your question?”

She asks, and you nod, slowly.

“I need you to help me find the golden giant”

She whispers.

You let the words echo in your ears,

And you nod again, more determined this time.

Then you step into the land of wood.

As you crunch through the deep yellow trees,

You watch as the girl aimlessly whittles a branch. You hadn’t noticed her antiquated leather bag until now, but it’s probably where she got the knife.

Her dextrose hands flick and curve in rhythmic motions.

Time moves faster in you imagination, (everyone knows that) and the sun, soon slides quickly down the sky.

As the sky colors and darkens, you walk on- silently except for the shrk, shrk, of the girls blade. Earlier on your walk you had tried to engage some simple conversation, but the girl had been confusing to talk to, she seemed to change, like a shapeshifter, into different forms: tall, leader like, reserved, hunched shoulders, then long strides, then cheerful talk, then suddenly silent.

But even in this eventful exchange, you had learnt the girl’s name.

Arum.

And so you walked in the quiet forest with the girl named Arum.