A flower?

after a few rainy days new types of plants started to grow in the soil around me. I wonder if it's just my imagination, but these look different from the grass I'm used to. It wouldn't be so bad anyway, it's always good to see new things. "Ah, thinking about it, I changed too." I talked to myself while remembering the changes recently discovered a few days ago.

***

a few days ago a small spirit woke up again after a long time of sleep ready to see the changes that took place in the valley - the last time it did that the small village down there grew a lot and even created a very high central structure - the same he wondered how they managed to create these things in such a short time, not that he knew how long it took, after all he was asleep at the time. but what caught his attention this time was not the valley below, but its own structure. he felt that there was something different, the little spirit wondered what. just two days later he realized. "my colors!" she exclaimed. yes, there were new colors in them now, small, round and red, she could feel her energy connected to each one of those colors and knew it was different from everything she had ever felt, in the way it fell and withered leaves or its roots that connected her to life. it was different, she had her own life but still needed it, she kept that life and felt that she should protect them until they separated. such conjunction was deeply rooted in her like her roots on the ground, yes, if she could protect those little colors, her colors, she would know what she is. time passed and one by one his colors became bigger, more red. she knew, knew the time was near, she did it, took good care of her colors and now they would become like her and then she would no longer be alone. but then it happened.

***

it was night when I saw them, they seemed to be in a hurry, one of them was holding something small in his lap while crying, I knew what they were, humans. I saw many of them on the mountain trails. I listened to their conversations and learned new things about the world. these humans were dying, yes, the woman holding the little thing in her arms was pale and there was a lot of red liquid in her blood-body - I learned what it was from a hunter who claimed to have been scratched by a bear. there was another human next to the woman, he was smaller and looked sick, like the grass that was trampled on the trail until he could no longer grow.

they seemed to know they were going to die, they looked distressed and extremely tired but still they struggled to reach the top of the mountain, reaching in front of me the woman staggered and fell. and then I saw, the little thing in your arms. the first thing I noticed were the two spheres of a color similar to the blood on that woman's body, but even more similar to the color of my small, round fruits - again learned from humans -, yes, they were like mine, and I wanted to take care of him, that fragile little thing that looked like a flower bud. but I knew that surely it was not a flower. but what could i do, i was just a little thing rooted at the top of a mountain, i could not take my arms like that woman, much less protect with my body which was not much bigger than the little thing.

***

while the little spirit was lost in its own thoughts the woman and the young man hid behind some rocks nearby and soon after that the sound of footsteps was heard. a crowd surrounded the mountain and the man who led led a step forward.

"witch! i know you are there, go out and free our prince from your hideous spell and maybe we can give you a quick death!" he spoke in his booming voice and with a condescending expression that made the little spirit sick.

"there is no spell! this woman is good, she never hurt anyone, why do you insist on trying to kill her !?" the young man came out of hiding, hoarse exclaiming that phrase, however, as if he had fallen and deaf ears the man went back to quacking.

"Oh, prince, don't worry, even if everyone here perishes, even if it is necessary to take you into the arms of God, I, Sir. Aron will free you from such a curse."

"You lie, I know what you want, what you really will do, so why put up such a facade? Are you afraid someone will tell you off? That they know you are the real monster?" the woman spoke, leaving behind the rock with empty hands. the man made a distorted expression, but soon began to speak.

"don't fall into the witch's spells, she cursed the prince and bewitched him and now she intends to disengage us, what a hideous woman, fast we must capture her and throw her in the fire" with that order the people around them started to get closer, but before they got too close the land around the young man and the woman caught fire, protecting them in the center. the pursuers got scared and walked away while the man leading them exclaimed things like "look!" and "I was right " when he smiled cruelly.

inside the circle the woman turned and looked at the little spirit.

"You look very young." she said in a tone of nostalgia.the young man then turned around after that sentence and wondered. "Is she also ...?"

the woman looked at him and replied. "a spirit, like me" her tone seemed to light up for a moment "and to think that I would finally meet someone like that in my last moments .." her tone seemed happy and sad.

"I'm sorry"

"no, it was my choice to leave the forest and I don't regret it."

"* sigh * I hope that in the next life or I can take you as my wife and we can be happy"

"Yes"

the flames started to spread then.

"hey, little tree, if you survive this ... could you take care of my little flower bud for me? in return, i will give you all my knowledge and power" said the woman, then she started to change until she transformed on a doe

"I will feed you with my blood that has the power of royalty, then... could you take care of our son?"

the young man said, cutting off his wrist and letting his blood flow through the roots of the small tree.

***

I discovered what I am, I also discovered that I am afraid of humans, but now, without my consent, the doe and the young man have given me more than I could contain and a task I don't know if I could complete ...

I looked at the baby in my lap and then at the surrounding environment, ashes, that's all. there was no longer the green expanse of before. and here I was, a girl of twelve or thirteen, holding a baby.

"* sigh * I just wish I could raise my fruit in peace and find out what I am .." at least the second part has been completed. I am an ancient tree, a young spirit just awake in truth. Apparently the woman I consumed was also a spirit, she was a doe spirit of eight hundred years, and apparently she had not started that fire. it was the man who led that crowd. the deer woman, despite being a spirit, was not very strong, in fact she was as strong as any other citizen, the only difference was that she possessed the healing power ...