on an'venture

Tachi knew he wasn't allowed out, that the looming walls and open space of the Bay were his playground. But for once he wanted something different, more than what he saw day in, day out. He crept along through the soft bamboo stalks, felt the leaves drag against his spine as though asking him to stay. To remain. And yet he kept on, passed beyond the invisible borders that were so marked and after what felt like hours of walking emerged into the great unknown. A world unlike he'd never seen before, alien and odd. Something from a dream. As far as he knew, trees were supposed to be green and tall, sway in the breeze and rustle ceaselessly.  And yet these things sprouted wide, had gnarled trunks that bushed at the top.

The ground was weird too, browny and dry, so much so that nothing but those weird trees could take root. Like this was their land and their land alone. But was this place really as barren as it seemed? He looked this way and that, ears flopping as he took in the distant landscape. Was he really all alone here? Alone for like the first time in...ever, his whole existence.

A weird feeling indeed.