This little story is not of the endless forest, but I hope people won't mind me placing it here for others to see. It came about as I was pacing and thinking about several random things in a quiet room, remembering how I once thought of it and told it to someone very special to me.

This story is about a game called Journey http://thatgamecompany.com/games/journey/ web link for some more information about it if you don't know of it. A must play for lovers of more artistic game types with more meaning than one would expect at first glance, the true beauty of it caught me off guard. Now with the basic introduction to the story's origin out of the way on to the main part, the order of the stages might be out of whack from my last play but my memory is a bit hazy at times.

Anyway on with the story.
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Chapter 1 - First Steps

This story starts in a vast desert, golden sands and bright orange sunset paint the landscape a twilight hue. Before me stands a tall sand dune blocking my view of what lies ahead and shields me from the suns strong heat as I sit and rest before I continue on with my journey. A few moments pass before I stand and climb up the dune to get a better look ahead. In the distance, a lone mountain, atop its peak a shining ray of light drawing my curiosity to the top of my mind, wondering what it is I set out alone towards it, eager to see what it will be at the journeys end.

I slide down the side of the dune and start to move at a decent pace across the sands as I reach the bottom. In the distance lie some ancient ruins, as I get closer I take a closer look, wondering if there are some old items that may help make the journey a bit easier, at one of the ruins are some curious little flying bits of cloth. As I get closer, I speak to myself wondering what these things are when I notice they reacted to my words and fill me with a curious power. I gaze at the clothes I wear and notice some glowing symbols upon my scarf, a bit confused as to what this power and the new symbols are, I jump off the ruins to get down quicker but something is wrong.. I'm going the wrong way! floating above the sands for a short time before I slowly float back down. Feeling the power fade as I land, I look at my scarf and notice the symbols are now gone.

I realize the symbols must be a kind of measurement to show how much of this power is left before it fades, I once more move on after coming to understand the odd power somewhat better now, ahead are some much larger ruins, containing a larger gathering of these weird cloth things. As I watch them they start to seem.. alive, moving about as if they are able to think, albeit only in the simplest form. I stand below the creatures, remembering how they react from last time, this time I shout to see how they all react. Suddenly they all swarm over me and lift me off the ground filling me with more power once more. Ahead I see a doorway and as the cloth things launch me up high, I try and glide towards it, landing safely on the stone flooring before the doorway.

As the power fades once more I gaze back at the swarm of cloth beings and whisper a small word of thanks to them before turning to the doorway and walk through it, wondering in my mind if the one I seek to travel with, will be beyond this doorway waiting for me so we can make this journey together.

End Chapter 1
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This story seemed a lot shorter in my head when I first thought about it, after typing half the chapter here and still not having passed the first area, I figured it might be better to seperate the story into smaller chapters. Future chapters should be up soon once my brains had a chance to rest x3