Day 5 Diary

Wind whispers through my leaves.

I try to open my eyes but nothing happens.

Yesterdays adventures rush back to me.

My body a tree but my mind still human.

I wonder whether trees sleep.

I figure they must-I slept the whole night through soundlessly.

I feel the sun on the tips of my branches.

Water rushes through my roots like rivers of blood-entirely mine.

The day slips past slowly-but quickly all the same.

"Kitty Kat..." I hear my master the great Elm call.

He whispers to me in tree tongue.

I try to resist his powers-his attempts to turn me into a tree forever but I can't.

I fell my roots lengthen clinging more and more to the slippery earth.

I finally feel his feet retreat and go back to whatever he was doing before now.

I can barely think now.

I can remember who I am but now why I can't move.

Slowly I feel small vibrations in the ground.

They get stronger and stronger until they stop suddenly in front of me.

I listen.

I hear nothing so I slip back into my dream.

I've just got to thinking about how nice the sun feels on my tips when I feel myself beginning to change.

My branches grow shorter, along with my roots and trunk.

I feel my hands return followed by my legs, head, hair and every other part of me.

I gasp as air fills my lungs.

I see Imij standing on front of of me but my instinct takes over and I run.

I don't know where I'm running or why.

After what seems like hours I arrive at an empty Pa site.

Dusk is falling and I find some more Monkey Tails to eat for dinner.

I lie down on the hard ground to sleep but bad thoughts drift through my mind.

I'm awake until midnight-or later but eventually, I fall asleep.

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