Time has since moved on from when Niki first stepped in to the Endless Forest, and now he's grown.

In his younger years Niki found little comfort in his friend's playful antics and the many other friendly deer that inhabit the forest. But now that is but a memory of childhood as he is just reaching his full growth strenght of his adulthood.

As Niki now looks upon the forest with new eyes he notes different things than he did when he came. Not only is he looking to play with fawns and adults alike, but he also notes the ever varying amount of females around. some are with more color than the others. Some catch his eye longer than others. And around some he feels so nervous that he swares that his hooves are shaking.

but that's a normal part of growing up, isn't it?

After some time, getting to know a few adults and a very kind female better they made their way over to the pond for a refreshing drink of the water that the rain from earlier had refreshed. Niki took a moment to take himself in. Gone was the light golden brown fawn pelt, and replaced with light brown with some reddish brown stripes instead. On his head he carries a pair of tall pale antlers. And slowly it truly sinks in.

He's not a fawn anymore.

Name: Niki

Snuck into the forest: 11th of may 2010

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History:
Niki was born in a normal herd some ways outside of the forest. All the deer were the same normal shade of brown with pretty much the same outlook in life. Boring is good.
That's what they thought. Niki has always wondered about why some trees look different than others? How come only birds and bats can fly? And of course, What's in that forest? But no one ever answered him in the best of their abilities, just said that things were how they were because that's how they had always been.

Then one day, while Niki was a bit closer to the forest than normal. He heard another fawn. Niki answered the fawn's calls eagerly, wanting to meet up with a potential new friend. Niki ran towards the forest as fast as his feet could carry him and then he saw Zach. The other fawn was eager to start playing with Niki, starting with a simple follow the leader and ending with fullblown racing.

There was so much to look at and explore in the forest as Zach showed him around the place. There were trees so huge that you could run trough them, fields so lush that you could lose your way in the tall hay and flowers. The flowers, it seemed, caused Zach endless amusement as they always got stuck on Niki's ears and were difficult to get rid of.

After playing for some time with the other fawn, Niki realised that his parents might be worrying for him now. But as Niki looked around, he realised that he had no idea how to get out anymore. They had ran in such circles that it was difficult to tell what way they had gone first. Even the sun was still in the same place as it had been when he came. He was officially lost. But this was what he had wanted for a while now, something new and exciting in his life.