A little more truth

Ostiarium forests - late afternoon

Wim kept his cool.
Looking at them he explained, “It is an idiom as trees do not really talk. I needed space to think as my life has changed a lot since getting off the ship.”

He let the silence hold the air watching the body language. They did not seem to relax at this.

“I had a vision yesterday that I was to come out to the woods. Hoi seduced me, most pleasantly I must add, and Orestes taunted me with the futility of my life in an image of some of my past tutors. A different voice called me out here,” he said watching them.

“It might have been dream magic or a message from the gods,” he added.
“So I came to find out,” he said.

He was glad they were here after seeing the bodies. Dying in the woods was not high on his list of ch