Outrage and fear had driven him from the woods. He simply couldn't, for the time being, remain with those awful, evil infidels. With savage righteousness, they had torn him apart, and for nothing. He had <i>done</i> nothing. And yet, there was that ivory cult-leader, judgement written on her stoic, ugly face. Her voice haunted his wakefulness, echoing in the dark caverns of his mind. "<i>If you would please. Yes, please, if you could just eat his heart. Oh, the devil will be simply DELIGHTED. Oh, there's a good chap, if you would just sacrifice yourself. Splendid!</i>" So disgustingly polite, so ironic and openly mocking. His jaws flashed and snapped in a tantrum, "<b>To hell with you! To hell with you all!</b>"
For some inexplicable reason, Kiche's feet fell off the familiar trails. Blinded by passionate rage, he had wandered much farther south than he had ever dared before, and he plunged into wet, squelching ground. Mud. <i>Gross.</i> This wild, uncharted country disgusted him, and he longed to get away from it. If he could only just walk a little farther, maybe just beyond this muck there would be civilization. But beyond the eerie sibilance of the savage bog was still more forest, although the plants were a bit stranger. The branches did not seem to hold the weight of the leaves, which came cascading down like beaded green curtains. At the sight of these strange trees, something tiny and deep down inside of Kiche was struck with the simplistic beauty of it all. But that feeling was extinguished quickly, doused with anger, disgust, prejudice, anything he could find to put out the fire that was catching inside of him. Kiche was a delicate, refined creature of civilization. None of this could be beautiful. It was barbaric, and he would never, <i>never</i> love this place.
Such were the thoughts that plagued his mind as the sun began to fade, streaking the sky with a bloody, heathen red. Dusk would soon shroud the forest, and Kiche's injured body berated him, screeching with every movement, begging for sleep. Begrudgingly, he hunkered down against a willow trunk, slightly pleased with the protection and cover the veil of leaves provided him. His rest, however, was fitful, cursed and infected with nightmares. But the sun, which could not come soon enough, was unable to chase them away. No matter what, he was still here. He was still lost in this hellish landscape, surrounded with heathens and devil-worshipers. His life was a nightmare, and even if he took off running in the morning, hoping to escape, he knew he could not. There was no escape.
Dappled willow shade eventually faded into a grassland, an endless sea of green tendrils that lapped at him, whispering as he passed through them. After all this walking, most of his anger had been washed away. His trepidation and loathing, however, remained. Something felt very strange about this place. Peace and silence, after all, were fragile things. He quickened his pace, unwilling to be somewhere so quiet and primitive. In the distance, he noticed that the ground began to wrinkle and roll, where the carpet of grass began to slope upwards into the mountains. A splash of crimson caught his eye. To be honest, it looked to him like the hill was awash with blood. But as he approached, he realized it wasn't blood. The hill was bejeweled with bright scarlet buds that promised flowers to come, but Kiche was still reminded of blood. The whole thing made his skin crawl. Suddenly, he looked about, seeing that these buds stretched for quiet a ways, and it suddenly occurred to him that there were varying degrees of being lost. Frankly, he was in a state of perpetual disorientation, since he had no idea where he was in the grand-scheme of things, where his home was. But now he realized that he didn't even know where the familiar bits of this forest were. "<b>Where the hell am I,</b>" he breathed, acutely aware of every bloody shoot that pricked his eyes.
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