Juniper--Asher's mother--was a doe from a completely different world. Her home was full of creatures all shapes and sizes, their pelts decorated with colors spanning the farthest reaches of the spectrum. Together they coexisted within a single benevolent forest, lush with life and magic. This forest went on forever, undisturbed and untouched by any outside forces.

Juniper, had begun to feel like this mystical place was her eternal prison. The forest and all its magic and all its wondrous things had been the one she was born into; she had lived her whole life in paradise. It had never been anything special too her. There was something missing in this world for her. Vibrant colors seemed listless and boring. Excitement and adventure was what she needed, something she couldn't have in a place so... safe. Danger, risks, difficult choices, something to get her blood rushing, to make her feel alive; she craved it.

Very rarely in her world, a doorway is opened; a bridge that connects the endless forest with the a very special place... one with everything she had been dreaming of. Perhaps Juniper had spent so long wishing that the deities took pity on the poor doe... or perhaps her dreary aura caused the forest to want to expel her from it. Whatever it was, one of these rare doorways had opened itself before her.

Hesitant and frightened at first, Juniper's first steps into the portal were slow and cautious. As she allowed her body to completely slip from her world into one of blinding white, her heart beat faster and her resolve grew stronger. Bravery well up in her chest and excitement bubble in her veins. Soon she was running, bounding through the seamless white, leaving the entrance so far behind that she could no longer see it.

The white faded eventually and blurry shapes and colors flew past her, becoming clearer and more vibrant with every leap until she stopped dead in her tracks, skidding to an abrupt halt. The world was no longer out of focus. The light of the door had faded away and she now stood within a place she had never seen before.

This new place was strange and alive with creature similar to the ones she knew, but different. Her scales had been replaced by thick fur and the vibrant colors she had once adorn had washed away to be replaced by tawny and white. Her antlers had vanished without a trace, making her head feel odd and light. and her tail became short. In this world she was nothing but a common, white-tailed doe.

She familiarized herself with this world quickly and found herself never bored with it's constant changes. After a time, she learned how to be a real deer, joining a herd and raising her own offspring with a buck who would never know of her endless forest birthplace.

But in this new world that she had wished so deeply for, death and danger is always looming. Things grew old here quickly, they died from age and illness and predators. So many predators...

Asher was still new, just a clumsy little fawn, when havoc erupted withing the woods. He did not remember much, only the running, trying to keep up with his mother as they ran with the herd. Whatever had been chasing them that day has long been lost somewhere within the archives of his memories. One minute, he had been running with all his might, and the next, the earth was thrust from beneath his feet.

The grass and dirt were gone. Trees: gone. And his herd was nowhere to be seen. There was no sound. No one was yelling and nothing was chasing him.

His pace slowed to a walk and the little fawn continued on through the nothingness curiously. Sunlight made it's way through the void and he squinted into its brightness. His hooves touched grass again, but everything was different. Looking around, there was a world of wonders that had just unraveled before him.

Catching sight of himself while glancing about, Asher noticed even he was different now. His tail had gown extremely long and his colors were vibrant and strange, unlike anything he had ever seen on a deer before.

Entranced by this place, Asher followed in his mother's footsteps and let himself be consumed, merging himself with a world he had never known.

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