Clear air whipped through the leaves and tussled the animals who stirred in their holes and warm beds of leaves. A hushed silence swept through the forest, as if waiting in a shushed silence. Colorful leaves on the trees slowly balanced on their thin stems and as the wind blew, fell off sailing on the currents of air. a shadow fell on these leaves on the ground, and the great figure of a deer appeared.

The stag's antlers towered on his head like the branches of an ancient oak tree. Th bark of these great antlers was covered in silk, and the deer's fur was long hugging his massive body, a warm winter coat. The deers powerful legs stood straight and muscles bulged beneath the silky dark brown fur. It shined and rippled in the fall sun, as the animals stood to watch the mighty deer walk across the forest path.

The deer's humanoid face was stern, his eyebrows furrowed. His eyes were a deep blue, thick layers of clear ponds rippled in them and they reflected the sadness that came with fall, the trees going to sleep and the chirping sound of the bird quieting down. The deer quickened his pace and crunched through the leaves. He looked down.

It seemed as if the world was coming to an end. His family was gone for the fun of the game. The sharp sound of bullets echoed in his ears, a never ending chorus.

He remembered it clearly.

It was midmorning- he was sitting on the edge of a small rock cliff. Dirt was piled up on top of it and grass grew creating a soft cushion. Below him was a small pool of water- perfectly clear with not even a ripple. Smooth, long, flat rocks made up the bottom of the pool. There were two deer standing across from him, looking in.

One, was a light brown speckled with white, the sign of a fawn growing to become a stag. His eyes were green, and his mouth was turned upwards into a smile. He quickly looked to his brother. He was black, with chocolate brown eyes like mud, he was smaller with studs of antlers.

So I finally became a doe yesterday, in the afternoon. I logged off the computer in the morning as a fawn wearing the full magpie costume. When I came back on later, I saw, before I got up, a big deer was laying next to me. I thought it was kind of strange, because I didn't know of any deers who liked me that much, except for DeerLover777' deer, Beorn. But it wasn't her. She wasn't wearing a magpie costume, like me.......OH, IT'S ME!!! So I got up and tryed out my new deer body, but only for a minute or two, because my time was up on the computer. I will be in the forest today. You'll see me in a full magpie costume.

Sadly, I tryed all of your suggestions, but none of them seemed to work for getting those pictures I took to show up. They were good suggestions, too. If only I could get those pictures.....I took about a million great pictures, some of giant crows, giant rabbits, and even a giant fawn! And that one day last week where it was still partially nighttime in the forest and everything had a purple hue to it. I know these pictures are lost somewhere in my computer, and I'm going to try just about anything that will work to get them back.

~Nireda the fawn....er, excuse me...DOE

last night i had a dream
about a forest without end
it was covered in sunbeams
and full of possible friends

there there was no sorrow
or fear, or pain
there i could trot to and fro
and everything is humane

but with much grief
i eventually awoke
and i wept at how brief,
was my visit to the oaks
and the other trees