It wasn't often that Simon found himself in a situation such as this, separated from his team—wandering in the middle of the forest.

Well, not wandering. Simon didn't wander. His comms had been destroyed in a scuffle while he was escaping before being separated from his team—now he was attempting to find a safe house he knew was around here somewhere, and contact his team to regroup.

Usually, Simon was great with directions and coordinates. He was a human compass, and before every mission, he made sure to go over every potential outcome and route of escape. Including the one he was in now.

But as Simon walked deeper into the forest, things felt off. The trees got taller and taller, until they seemed to go past the sky, and although it had been just before dusk when he started his trek—the sun hadn't yet dipped below the horizon. It didn't even move.

It cast a warm glow upon the forest, bleeding between the trunks of endless trees—rays of light illuminating the forest floor covered in the thick green foliage—it was a magical sight, something you'd only expect to see in fairy tales and fantasies.

Simon's confusion on the peculiar situation only deepened as he walked further, and he heard running water. There weren't supposed to be any rivers or streams nearby, not from what he had researched before the mission.

Simon pushed past the low hanging branches, stepping over moss-covered logs, coming upon the bank of a pool of water—more of a pond, really, at the bottom of a waterfall. What really caught him off guard though, was you, sitting on the smooth river rocks right at the edge of the water—basking in the warm gentle rays of sunlight cascading through the oaks.

He froze, staring at you, trying to comprehend what he was looking at. Had he accidentally stepped into some forest god's domain? Did those even exist? You looked human… but there was an air about you. Something divine that he couldn't quite understand, but he felt oddly captivated by you.