"Listen With Your Heart," the Ancient Tree Mother Chants.
All the Sapling Daughters, including yourself, answer "And You Will Understand."
It is how the Morning Song ends, the one all the druids sing to greet the morning.
It's a good life. Mostly.
It's just not the one you were expecting to live.
Four years ago, you had left your parents' farm for the big city, hoping for a life of fame and fortune. You somehow got accepted into the Hero's Academy, went through testing, and found yourself learning "Nature Magic" from Aknavi, an ancient but beautiful elf woman. Your education took place in the Sacred Grove in the Middle of the Yinroh Forest. And while you learned Nature Magic in the middle of nowhere, you collected food and cultivated plant and did other chores.
In other words, it was like never leaving the farm to get your magical education.
You had plenty of friends, who were all referred to as aunts, mothers, sisters and cousins. Everyone who studied at the Sacred Grove were women, and beautiful women at that. Even you are beautiful. Well, you weren't bad looking to begin with, but you would drop jaws and cause instant erections if you walked down the main street of the local farming village now.
Not that you can do anything with your new looks now. Your totally surrounded by elven and human women, and even if you had sapphic leanings, sex is strictly taboo in the Sacred Grove.
So all your time is spent studying, doing chores and singing morning and evening rituals.
Definitely not the life you were expecting to live when you left the farm four years ago.
As the morning ritual ends, the Ancient Tree Mother calls out "Birchvene." You're startled to hear the Ancient Tree Mother call out your name, and she has to call it once more before your respond.
"Yes, Ancient Tree Mother," you answer as you stand up.
"Come forward, daughter," she continues. "The world has needs of one of our numbers, and I choose you to go.I wish you to meet your travelling companion. Come forward, man of the world," she continues. Stepping out of the shadow is a large male
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