e golden sand - How few! Yet how the creep. Though my fingers to the deep, O god! Can I not grasp them with a tighter clasp? O god! Can I not save one from the pities wave? Is all that we see or seem but a dream within a dream?" by Edgar Allan Poe
Lyall Pov
" That was not what I was expecting." I thought while exiting the shop. After my reading with grandma she told me that I have to go back to that place. And if I can recall what she told me...
Flashback
"What!? Your telling me that the hanging tree I saw in my vision is real!?" I shouted "Please dear lower your voice my dear. Are you sure it was a vision or was it time?" she asked me " I... I don't know." I answered " Well that is why you must go back. But a word of warning. The hanging tree is not a safe place, the hanging tree is located at the church. It once was a holy place but the priest done a witched deed. He raped and hanged his only daughter.
He discovered that his daughter was in love with a women. In an attempt to purifie her he raped her. When he found that didn't work and that his daughter was with child... his child...he forced her to hang herself so her soul would be damned to hell and he would be spared. To this day they say that the tree is haunted by her soul and that if anyone goes near it..." she hesitated " What happens Juilet?" I asked using her full name" I can't finish, just please my dear be safe." she begged while grasping my hands in hers. Her had soft to the touch. " Of course grandma." I smiled while giving her hands a slight squeeze for reasurence.
Flashback End
I don't even know if I want to go back... but that voice... even thinking about it makes my heart pound. I started walking to the church. " Good thing my house is the same way as the church." I thought. After a good 20 minutes of walking over pass the hill I saw the church. Even walking up to the church I felt something foul in the air. The closer I got the more uneasy I became. "Juilet was not kidding when she said this place was unholy." I muttered. Ironic.
Once I got to the church I started looking around for the tree. When I got to the back where the graveyard was I saw a little boy with wild raven hair and grey/blue eyes. " Little boy? What are you doing here by yourself?" I asked while walking up to him. Once I spoke he looked straight at me with a small smile on his face. "Little boy?" I asked again while reaching out to him. Again he did not answer me but ran away. "Wait!" I yelled while chasing him. "Wait!... Please wait! " I called while running after him. He looked back at me with still a smile on his face but his eyes looked pained and lonely. " I wonder what happened to him to have such an expression?" I wondered.
I knew we were no longer at the church but in a small forest. I did not know how long I ran after him but soon I lost him. "Oh no. Where did he go?" I asked myself while looking left and right. This is great I'm lost. All I ever see is greenery and trees. I slowly started walking straight in what I assume was where the boy went. Slowly I started hearing something
" Come this way my dear." it said.
"It's that voice again!" I shouted.