Smoke Signals

Now, this place was strange - and it wasn't only because of the way there were trees growing straight out of the water. Kaija hadn't ever seen anything at all like this before and she wasn't sure what to make of it, but she was almost completely distracted by the little clusters of firefly-esque blue lights that bobbed and weaved through the rows of trees. She couldn't shake the feeling that they were beckoning her to follow, and she was far more curious than she was wary. The night wasn't as dark as it normally would've been thanks to the moon shining brilliantly in the sky and casting a strange hue down on everything, and Kaija was eager to explore this weird little forest while she was able.

Not paying much mind to the noise she was making as she splashed around the shallow water, eventually searching for a stretch of dry land to settle upon and clean the mud out from between her toes. Almost as soon as she made to rest a particularly large cluster of lights floated just at the edge of her peripheral vision and she immediately jerked around and made to follow it curiously, hoping to catch it before it disappeared. She didn't have the faintest idea where these lights were going, let alone where they'd come from, but they seemed like they had some kind of purpose and she hoped with some determination she might make some sense of them.. or at least she could try.