[This chapter is written from the view of an boy living in a village]
"Here you two got your money. Thanks for helping me" my grandma said while she gave us some copper coins. Me and my friend Zach helped her carry some stuff to the marked and as a reward she gave us money so that we could buy us something nice on the market.
Zack said to me: "I know something really cool we could do during the celebration." "What is it?" I skaed him but he didn't want to tell me untill the evening. "Just meet at the back of my house after the celebration starts ok?" He said. Of course I agreed.
But first I had to go home for dinner. As I opened the door my family was already sitting at the table waiting for me. "If you would've come 30 seconds later we would've already started" my father said. "Well at the celebration today there's enogh food so I wouldn't mind" My mother laughed. "We're not doing this because of the food but because Karl has been accepted as a knight in the capital"
The whole village is celebrating his succes with a big farewell party before he starts his journey to the capital. It's quite rare for someone of a small village to be accepted as a royal knight. "I'm going there because of the food!" ma little brother said. We all stared at him. After a few seconds everyon bursten out in laughter.
"If you want to stay up that late you have to go to bed now and sleep until the party begins else I won't let you go there. "OK" my brother and I said at the same time and hurried up to sleep for a few hours. My brother because of the food and me because of my adventure with Zach.
[A few hours later]
"Have fun, don't come home late and don't leave the lighted paths." my mother said´. "Ok Mom" I answered her and left. The moment I was sure they couldn't see me anymor I ran straight to Zach's house. He already waited for me. "So wat are we doing?" I asked him.
He wisperd into my ear "We are going to search for a witch in the black forest!" "WHAT?" I nearly screamed. Do you want to get us killed? If the witch doesn't kill us our parents would." I said after calming down a little bit.
He said to me "But imagine we would be able to steal one of the witches potions. We maybe would be able to sell it of a few gold coins. Do you know how many candies that are? We would even be able to buy one of these that only nobility can eat."
The moment he said candy my mouth started drooling. He knew I'm really weak when it comes to candy. Because one pice is extremely expensive. "So what do you say?" he asked me. "But we have to be fast" I said to him an he looked happy.
---A few minutes later---
Me and Zach stood on the edge of the black forest. I gulped. "So this is why it's called black forest" Zach said. And indeed I now knew why they named it that way. It wasn't even kompletely dark yet but you still couldn see more than 6 meters, around 10 with the torches we had.
We went deeper and deeper into the forest and slowly the lights of the village faded behind us. "Do you even know where the witch lives?" I asked Zach. He answered: "You are joking right? They killed all witches years ago. I only want to find the house of a witch and hope to find some leftover potions." That made me feel a little better. I have never told anybody but I am afraid of meeting a witch an beeing turned into an potion by her like in these stories. But if there is no witch its probaply a lot safer.
"Then do you know the position of a witch's house?" I asked him "I'm pretty sure from the village straight into the forest and after some time you will see the house." he said. I turned around and asked with a trembling voice: "But in which direction is the village?" He said "right into this direction" and pointed somewhere. But then he had to realise. Everything looked the same. Just Trees and after 10 meters nothing but pitch black.
"shit I think we got lost"