The Priest
It has been a while. Long ago, I knew all of your faces. Some were my enemies, others my closest friends.
Now I know so very few.
Where has the time gone?
I sense much darkness within this forest now. I fear the implications of such an occurrence...I fear a recurrence of that Time.
I fear that I have become useless to combat this darkness...
If it is even wished by the Gods. How am I to know?
Yet other presences are mysteriously lacking. Where are the ones I considered enemies once? Many seem to have fled.
For this, I am glad. Good riddance to the darkness.
Others, however, still remain. I have seen you, doe. I know you still remain.

I spoke with Brother Matthias today--or rather, where he lays now. His headstone gives me some comfort, even if...
I spoke to him of the forest. I spoke to him of my attempts to find the Gods again. He was silent, of course, and I gained no answers.
I went to the Gods then, yet they remained silent. Statues, nothing more.
Are they fading away from us?
The fawn that lay next to me, though, gave me some warmth. It has been awhile since I have sat so close to another.
If only I could have known your name, little one, yet you seemed to have no pictogram of your own...

I walked the forest then, saw faces I could not recognize, new life within this forest. I do wonder if I will eventually know them, or if I wish to.
I ended the day in a patch of sunlight, eyes closed, soaking in the warmth and listening to the light birdsong.
At least this had not changed.

[Short writing is short. xD]