- Adams: Wait a moment. Sprinkle this spore on the fruit.... Hmm... is this going to take more time? This is..... a method a friend of mine taught me. I wonder how she'd doing, I would really like to talk with her again. Have I ever told you about this? Actually when I was taking a break form work, there was a slight time when I traveled the continent. It was to find more research topics.... and there were also many problems I wanted to organize. One day I went inside a really dense forest to research the creatures of the forest. Then all of a sudden I was lost! Unfortunately, only thing I had wit me at the time at the time was.... an old notebook and a single pencil. There was no way for me to figure out any directions and I couldn't even tell if it was day or night because the huge dense trees. I suddenly got really scared. Something hostile could have jumped out at me any moment..... wouldn't it be strange to actually keep cool in that situation? Well.... thinking about it now... I still don't know if the whole thing was a dream or not. Anyways, I couldn't just stand in one place. So I walked and walked. I don't know how long I walked but maybe the heavens hadn't abandoned me because I saw a small light coming from up ahead. I was so happy that I started sprinting without a thought. The light gradually became closer and all of a sudden there was an enormous and ancient tree in front of me. On that tree, there were small and large openings like windows and doors with light coming from inside. I had never seen such a large beautiful tree in my life..... Mesmerized, I slowly entered the tree. There I saw a scene that was even more amazing. There were... Elves in there. Many elves were gathering there forming a small village.... and they were all very kind. Even though I was an outsider, they gave me food, drink, and even provide me a place to sleep. I stayed there for about a week scanning the geography of the area. But that place was too deep inside a dense forest that I had no way of even approximating where it was located. If I wanted to, they would have probably let me stay there for the rest of my life. Of course, I actually considered doing so for a moment too. Still.... I couldn't give up my research. I ended up leaving the place... but even now I really want to visit the place again. When I was staying there, I became friends with an Elf named Lyla. She knew so many things. About various creatures living in Elrios and about various objects that have changed from the El Shard's influence.... We talked about so many things. I wrote down everything I learned from Lyla on a notebook..... Oh, here it is! This is my most treasured possession. Thankfully, Lyla accompanied me to see me off when I was leaving.... and I promised her I'll come to visit again. Although, I never figured out the location of the place so I still haven't been there ever since.... When I came to, I was in White Mist Swamp. I wonder if that forest had always been close to Ruben..... Anyways, that's the best current lead I have at the moment.... so I try going there to search from time to time but to no avail. If I could remember the road I walked back with Lyla.... Why can't I remember.....?! Really miss the time I spent in there....
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