He did not know where he was running. He did not care. He couldn't see anyways; the fog blinded his eyes. Tears rolled down his face and he screamed, threw off his mask and left it lying in the pond. Although he couldn't see, he heard the Old Oak's hum, and kept running, and soon the sound faded away. He stopped running and screamed at the sky, his face soaked with tears. He fell to the ground, crying, staining his fur with wetness. The fog was too cloudy for anyone to see, but he did see the shadows of deer and fawns. And he saw one...of a doe...heading towards him.

"Voice?"

The doe didn't answer, and when she stepped out of the fog, she was gone. The stag started to cry again. Then he saw a human shadow, a girl, heading towards him. The girl came out of the fog. She had long, light brown hair with beautiful blue eyes, and a scar below her left eye. She was about 11 years old.

"Who are you?" the stag said.

The girl didn't say anything for a moment. The stag was about to start crying again when she said, "I am Ella." The stag watched Ella pull a knife out of her pocket. "I am your human." The stag almost snorted. "Every deer in the forest has a human side. Some deer have the same human. Every deer has their own mind, but they need their human to help control them. Their human controls them from a different world, and they may enter the forest to help their deer."

The stag started to cry again. "Lies! LIES!" He was standing up now, bucking at nothing. "Everyone has told me LIES! Every word they say to me is a lie! I am a lie!" He roared on top of his lungs, sending echos though out the forest. Dust blew into Ella's face as the stag kicked. "I know who you are, Peirce. I am your human. I have watched your every move. I have watched your birth. I have watched your mother suffering. I have watched-"
"WHY DIDN'T YOU SAVE HER!?" The stag reared, tears were falling from his face like rain, filled with both hurt and rage. "WHY DIDN'T YOU HELP ME? ALL THIS TIME I HAVE BEEN SUFFERING; YOU DO NOTHING AND JUST STARE AT ME!"

"And that is why I have come," Ella grasped the knife, then put it on the ground. Suddenly the stag felt himself changing. His antlers grew back inside his head and his ears grew smaller. His fur grew back into his skin, which turned pale. Some of his fur stayed on his head, and they turned black. He stood on his hind legs, as a human. "Take this knife," Ella said, giving him the knife. "What the hell am I supposed to do with this?" The stag - now a human - said as he grasped the knife in his hand. Ella nodded. "Kill yourself. You wanted to die, here you go."

The stag-human prepared to stag himself, though he could not do it. His time was not over yet.

"I'm sorry, I can't kill myself." He said, giving the knife back to Ella. She nodded, and then walked into the fog, and her shadow disappeared. The human turned back into a stag, and left the knife to go find his mask. But then he saw a shadow in the fog. It was the doe. Again. She was not walking towards him. Just standing. "Hello?" the stag said. "Ella? Voice?" The doe did not say anything or move. "Honeyfur!?!" He started crying as the shadow started fading away, though he heard a small, faint, voice. "Peirce..." the doe said. The stag knew her voice. "Mother?" His crying stopped as he looked up to see the shadow, slowly fading away, but talking. "My son... I love you... and I will be there.

The stag watched as the doe faded away, fading into the fog, and once she had totally disappeared, the fog cleared away, too. The stag looked around. He saw fawns playing. A couple deer on the Twin Gods hill. Angel running towards him. "Peirce? Peirce? Are you OK?"

The stag looked up, and saw no clouds... just a star. It was daylight, though, but the stag could still see the star. And he was the only one that saw it. It was not visible to the others.

"Are you there?"

"I am there, my son, my wonderful son, Peirce, and I love you."