This story is dedicated to the artists of the Endless Forest community. After you read, please look at the request beneath it for a fun event.

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"Inspiration"

I called your name, asking, "Let me be born today. Bring me to life." You answer as your pencil touches the paper. You have thought of me all day, and slowly you begin to draw my frame.

The lines connect and become my body, my skeleton. I feel myself start to take shape. You take a pen and ink in the pencil lines, giving me eyes, ears, a nose, a mouth, legs, and a tail. I can finally draw upon my senses as each are added. You finish the last details and return to your pencil, creating a scenic landscape for me to live. You provide sunlight, grass for me to eat, trees to protect me, and birds to keep me company. You finish the land with your pen, revealing the true beauty of your own imagination.

You then take a box of colored pencils and make my world come alive. Your strokes give beautiful definition to the world, and I feel the land I stand on pulse as if it had it's own heart. You then place the pencils on me, and I suddenly feel myself become one with the landscape, my body having warmth and a pulse of my own.

With the last bit of color, I live in the world you created for me.

No longer am I a part of your mind, but a living creature in a world of my very own. I now will do my share to honor you, by inspiring those who see me and my land to dream of their own creatures to bring to life. I have become a living dream for all to see.

Thank you for creating me.

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Were you inspired by this story? Did you see your own deer come to life in your mind as you read it? Would you like to share that experience with someone else?

If you have a few minutes, it would be wonderful for you to create an artwork for someone else. Choose anyone you'd like - a deer who inspires you; a deer you think needs more fanart; someone random who has a deer that catches your eye.

Then spend five or ten minutes making an artwork for them. It can be any media (does not have to be pencil and paper) and please feel free to put them in any environment (does not have to match the land in my story). When you finish it, please let us see it on here, so we can continue to be inspired by not only our own imaginations, but by the deer of the Endless Forest as well.

Thank you for your participation, I hope you enjoy this little event. (I also need an artwork done by someone to use as the picture link on my Index page. I can use anyone's artwork with permission, and it can be any character. Thank you to anyone who helps with this.)

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Giftart done by this event:

Vala by RedKora
Cloud by QuadRaptor