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In the silent and soothing duet of birds with playful breezes racing within the forest, the trees let their leaves dance along to the rhythm of the duet song. Even the soft soil, silky grasses, and beautiful bushes under the tree are irresistible against the beat of the rhythm.
The bright and cheery sun orchestrates the hearts of the forest, with silent and cosy tunes resonating throughout.
And here, there is a being whose heart grooves with glee, and her joyous voice reaches the ears of the forest. Matching her vibe, nature welcomes her with its beautiful melodious voice.
Her lips suddenly zip up when her ears catch a peculiar hustle and bustle around her. Her eyes squint, checking for presence of creature, similar to the way an Eagle spots its target.
Her hand slips smoothly into her backpack’s front pocket, effortlessly drawing out a pepper spray as if drawing out a shield, and extends her arms in defensive mode.
In the silent and soothing duet of birds with playful breezes racing within the forest, the trees let their leaves dance along to the rhythm of the duet song, even the soft soil and silky grasses and beautiful bushes under the tree can’t stop swinging to the beat of the rhythm
The bright and cheery sun orchestrates the hearts of the forest with silent and cozy tunes resonating in the entire forest. Another is a being whose heart grooves with glee and her joyous voice reaches to the ears of the forest, matching her vibe, nature welcoming her with its beautiful melodious voice.
That being is holding a camera in her hand, talking on her own and showing the sights to the camera like a mother introducing the world to a baby.
She talks in a sing-song manner, “ My dear travelos, here I am to make you witness this magical place.
Do you know, where I am? Remember, in my last video, I hinted about ‘My Next Travel’ to a place whose name sounds partly similarto the word ‘stone’.
If you have already guessed, then let me tell you that yes I am in Estonia. And currently, I am in Kasmu’s field of Boulders.” She turns her camera around and records the essence of that place.
She continues chattering, fascination sparkling through her eyes and dipping through her tone, “ Can you see how handsome these trees look? Simply Marvellous! This site is one of the places on my Estonia travel checklist.
And, it is first on the list because I just felt like it exploring it first, must be its your alluring energy attracting my soul.
Nature is the best way to begin your adventure.
And our adventure begins now. So, keep your eyes on…….,” she points a finger at herself with a intense playful gaze staring into the camera. Her face breaks into a cheeky smile after a few seconds.
She completes her sentence, giggling in between, ” So, I was saying to My travelos to keep their eyes on……..* brings again a dramatic pause*.*chuckles*
Sorry for making you wait, so the main highlight of this video, is that you already know. That’s Scenery, right?
So, keep your eyes on me….*chuckles* I mean on nature, of course. And, enjoy the adventure that unfolds in front of your devices. “
She passes by many trees, her eager eyes tracing every inch of the forest, as if playing detective or treasure hunter, and suddenly her eyes gleam, glowing bright like bulb, and a child-like grin spreads on her lips.
She exclaims and turns her camera to the sight ahead of her, “ Travelos, I wanted to show you this. Have a good look.”
This site is a place packed with numerous boulders of different sizes and shapes. Each boulder has a coating of green grass and soil particles depicting the experience sedimented over thousands of years.”
She continues talking, “ These are called Kasmu field of boulders. Kasmu’s field of boulders is situated in hidden sight among the trees at one corner end of the Kasmu village. Isn’t it interesting?
Travelos, have a look at this boulder ”
She points at enormous-sized boulder, “ To me, It seems like the largest boulder among these boulders. Its height might be approximately more than 3 metres or even higher. How COOL.! “
Her lips suddenly zip up when her ears catch unusual noises loud enough to draw immediately attention from a few metres. Her dear camera and Travelos were put on hold for now. Her eyes squint, narrows, and her gaze sharpens, her pupils dilating like an Eagle wanting to catch the source of threat/ just casual nature ‘s playful pranks. She slips her hand into the backpack’s front packet effortlessly drawing out a pepper spray and extends her arms in defensive mode, mimicking a warrior pose.
The Hustle stops as if someone muted the surrounding, still, she needs to make sure the surroundings are safe for her. She silently steps backwards and approaches the bush from the backside to find out who’s hiding behind there.
She didn’t cite any animal or creature behind the bush, which is strange because an insect alone can’t make such a loud hustle.
She can’t pinpoint a weird feeling in her chest as if someone was here before she came, then tiredly shrugs it off and blames it on her tiredness, and possible exhaustion from travel.
She plays the video and ends the video by saying, “ Travelos, Today’s video would be short and cute. I want to shoot more but I feel the weariness of travelling crawling through my body.
Don’t fret; more travel videos will take you on a tour of this vintage and aesthetic place named Estonia.
One more thing, stay tuned for the next episode on this channel coming soon.. Okay then, meet you my travelos next time. This is Leine Ose, logging off for now.”
She closes the camera and puts it inside her dark brown-hued travel backpack. Again, her eyes catches something, a flicker of shadow quickly passing front of her behind the closely standing trees a few meters away. Her curious mind not in the mood to give her a piece of rest, and following her strong urge she let her feet led running in endless maze, yet determined to not stop until she finds the source of mischievous fond player of hide and seek.
Bravery isn’t her suite, but intuition and urges are something that she always believed and proved to be true always in her cases.
She ponders, gasping after running as if dogs chasing her down,” Why I am suddenly chasing when I am deeply sacred what I am following into. Is this an act of foolish bravery ? Ughhh…My imagination is running wild like my legs. Whatever if my gut is telling me to go after it, it must be for a reason. I will find out that lightspeed creature.”, fatigue all written over face yet her eyes remain indifferent to fatigue shining as if her eyes mimicking like solar panels borrowing energy from the bright sun
She suddenly stops to steady and slow down her racing heart and heavy breathing, her curiosity finally timidly obeys sensing her verge of collapse, settling her nerves down, finally gently launches herself on the grass, unbothered of soil staining her clothes. She inhales taking a deep breaths of fresh air, calming her racing heart, but without needing her to do much, the scent of woody trees and mild sweet fragrance diffuses in her lungs, steadying her lungs and heart, gently freshness returns to her body and tiredness is remarkably reduced.
Her body relaxes further, feeling an urge to simply lay down, but the pebbles are poking her in the ribs. Her gaze falls on the soft and sturdy boulders facing her direction just a few centimeters from her. Unable to resist the soft and smooth boulders inviting her, she lazily stands and slumps over a large smooth boulder surrounded by other boulders. Acting like a little kid, she animatedly spreading her arms wide and stares into the bright and clear sky.
Her throat tickling her, she clears her throat and starts humming a Latvian song with a soft tone while keeping her eyes closed, the melody brews up and oscillates through every bone in her body.
Latvian folk summer song by Priscilla Hernandez ;
“Līgo, līgo, lī
(Līgo itself means “Sway”)
līgo, līgo, līgo
līgo, līgo, lī
līgo, līgo, līgo
Tumsas māte, miglas māte līgo, līgo,
(Goddess of darkness, goddess of fog līgo, līgo,)
Aiz ezera velējāsi līgo.
(Was being purified on the other side of the lake līgo.)
Dun bauzīte, čukst vālīte līgo, līgo,
(Reeds are thundering, flowers with long stalks whispering līgo, līgo,)
Ievelk mani niedrājāi līgo.
(Their voices tempt me into the shrubs and reeds by the lake līgo.)
līgo, līgo, lī
līgo, līgo, līgo
Viegli gāju pār ūdeni līgo, līgo,
(Lightly I walked over the water of the lake līgo, līgo,)
Kā spārnota gaigaliņa līgo.
(Like a light-winged bird līgo.)
Zelta niedri zinādama līgo, līgo,
(I knew a golden reed līgo, līgo,)
Viņā krasta galiņāi līgo.
(To be on their side of the lake līgo.)
In between her singing, another voice joins her, singing along with her making the lady’s throat choke for a second.
She wonders, a bit captivated by the voice, “ Whose voice is that? It sounds much more melodious than my voice.
Quite…..Strange! When I inspected the nearby areas no one was around. If this person is a native of this Kasmu village, how can this person pronounce these Latvian lyrics perfectly?
Let me check once again.”
She purposefully doesn’t continue singing and waits for the reaction of that person. Out of nowhere, she felt tickles underneath her pants, so she gently moved a little aside and witnessed something crazy.
Out of nowhere, there were a bunch of marigold flowers rising in front of her eyes straight from the same soil where she had laid down a few minutes back.
Liene rubbed her eyes constantly, she even pinched herself but the marigold didn’t disappear before her sight. She immediately took a photo of the essence of magic since magic doesn’t happen often. Liene’s light grey eyes didn’t take her gaze off the marigold as if it might vanish if not paid attention. Her brain wheels, trying to grasp the hold of what just happened.
One thing is for sure when she laid back there were only soft bunch of grasses present but now there were marigold flowers birthed straight out of the grass into a fully grown plant. She can’t decipher this happening and simply gawks at those flowers like a fish. While she is busy admiring the flowers, a rush of breeze tickles her ears, she immediately looks around to clarify or identify the cause but again there is nothing.
Liene’s eyes lit up, even widening, the golden halo reflecting in her eyes, and the scene before her froze her into statue. A Blob of bright glazing golden flashing behind a bush at a 5-step distance diagonally away from her, as if the sky decided to descend something from heaven.
She couldn’t strip her eyes away from that golden light. Liene observes closely and concludes,” This sun-like blob is blinking like a star.
Whatever this energy or creature is, will eventually come out, it has to. Because once i become a curious cat, then there is no going back.”
Liene decides to pretending to sleep and keenly pays attention to the sounds nearby. Liene catches the soft footstep sounds moving towards her at a slow pace. The footstep sounds are so light as if someone is walking on feathers.
She tries to sneak a glance at the oncoming figure and catches a glimpse of someone short in figure with long golden blonde hue hair. Rest of the features are not completely visible due to the blinding sun towering above their heads.
As that person looms closer and closer, Liene figures out, that short figure was nothing but a small baby girl around 2 years old.
Liene whispers, feeling a little dizzy, unable to handle the shimmering aura, whispers in a disbelief laced tone, “How can this be possible, a baby girl alone in this vast forest and that too out of blue?
I searched almost all nearby areas but there was no one except for me.
Then, how this pretty baby appeared out of thin air. Wait a minute, am I hallucinating or maybe my tiredness is making me see weird things?
Okay, I will close my eyes and once I open, she will be gone, I…………guess.”
When that baby girl nears her, Liene completely closes her eyes, waiting for her to react but instead of feeling disturbed, she experiences a soothing warmth seeping into her eyes similar to the feeling of a cozy sun in a cold winter.
She hears her slow and calm toned voice laced with a hint of enthusiasm, “ Tere ( Hello), Preili Pilv ( Miss Cloud).
Ma kuulsin su laulu. Ma ei teadnud laulu keelt, kuid mulle tundus see kõrvadele ilus.
(I heard your song. I didn’t know the language of the song but I found it beautiful to the ears.)
Niisiis, ma lihtsalt ühendasin oma südame sinu omaga ja loomulikult hakkasin sinuga kaasa laulma. “
( So, I just connected my heart to yours and naturally, I started singing along with you.)
That girl’s tone tunes into a more soft-lullaby like tone, surprising Liene,
“Ma tean, et teeskled magamist.
( I know that you are pretending to sleep.)
Ma kuulen su südame mõtteid.
(I can hear your heart’s thoughts).
Nüüd saate oma silmad avada.
(You can open your eyes now.) “
Leine obeys her sweet command and sits up on the grass. Liene looks lost in the clouds of thoughts fogging her mind.
She finally draws her eyes back to the girl, noticing her eyes colored golden hue, iris with forest green flecks, and her slightly tanned smooth skin glistening with star-like light.
The baby girl had long skinny arms with long fingers and a green hue on fingertips on both hands.
She wore a smooth silk dress in a dark green shade and tiny flowers decorated her long hair.
The baby girl introduces herself in a deep sweet tone, “ Miss Cloud, I am Terhi. And, you are Miss Cloud, right? ”
Leine chuckles, then corrects her, “ Nice to meet you. But I am not Miss Cloud. My name is Leine Ose. Still, I won’t mind if you call me Miss Cloud. “
Liene questions her,“ Terhi, why are you wandering alone in the forest? Do you live in the Kasmu Village?
Show me the way to your home, I will come with you. It is not safe to roam alone in the forest.”
Terhi innocently answers, “ I am safe here. This is the safest place for me. After all, it is my home.”
Leine utters with a confused tone, “This forest is your home?
Do you live in this forest?…. Ohhh. Now, I get it.
You mean to say you like this forest and you tend to spend most of the time here.”
Terhi agrees,“ Yes, I like this forest and I tend to spend almost all of my time here but I know the way to my home. Still, I don’t want to go home yet because I am hungry and sleepy.
Currently, I want to rest for a while in the forest then later in the evening I will make way for my home. Where do you live, Miss Cloud?“
Liene convinces her,“ Terhi, you feel safe here, that’s good. But I would be fully happy if you visited my home and then I will take you back home.
Is it alright with you to go along with me?”
Terhi glees, sudden playful wave of breeze circles them, Liene notices this but Terhi’s joyful smile makes her forget everything, “ HAPPY. HAPPY. HAPPY !!! ”.
Terhi turns towards the trees and murmurs, “ I am going with Miss Cloud, I will spend my time more with her. Don’t miss me much, I will be back soon.”
This is audible to Leine’s ears and she thinks, “ Terhi appears to be more attached to the forest than people.
And, why does she spend most of the time here when she has her own home waiting for her? I will make sure she reaches home safe.”
She feels a tug in her legs and looks down at Terhi excitedly gesturing her to move forward. Leine nods her head and walks along with her passing through the forest.
Terhi asks mid-way through the forest, “ Miss Cloud, I want you to hold my hand so that I don’t get distracted by the forest and get lost.”
Leine displays a small smile on her lips and scoops her in her arms instead of grabbing her hand. Terhi exclaims, “Miss Cloud, even my mothers haven’t carried me at all in her arms like you do.
Although, she wants to embrace me but she can’t. However, she always expresses her affectionate love for me by showering gifts upon me. She is an amazing mother but sometimes I feel like I can’t be with her like the other beings do.”
Leine’s heart melts at her words for her mother although she never knew a mother’s touch. Leine realizes then by her last statement that Terhi is somewhat sad for her mother and cares for her mother a lot.
Leine reassures her, “ Terhi, you are blessed to have a mom like her. I never got to know about my parents because they are way too far from me. But, I know one thing your mom sounds lovely.
And, if she can’t embrace you, then you embrace her instead. Terhi, sometimes if people can’t do something for us even though if they want to then we should do it instead for them. And, that is what we call Love.”
Terhi looks at her with admiration and speaks with a hint of curiosity in her tone, “Did your mom teach you this? Do you remember the affectionate moments you spent with her? Do you miss her?
If you do, then tell me, my mother knows all mothers, she will contact your mother and send your message to your mom.”
Leine giggles, “You sound like an old mature lady. You are like a sweet tree. Let me take you home.”