╔═.✾.════╗ When I'm Feeling Like The Deepest Oceans ╚════.✾.═╝ Credits: - Me for story and thumb (400 words..or close to it) - Music: Just Relax Story: I breathed in the cool, misty air. Finally. Fresh air, clear mind. All my worries flew away as I took another deep breath. The last few days, I had felt.. Trapped. Drowning in thoughts and worries. Stuck at the midnight zone, deep in the Atlantic Ocean. But the forest was my friend. It called to me. Softly, at first. But then it became louder. More encouraging. And when I arrived, I could breathe again. The woods took my breath into the air, higher than anything else. It took my breath into the quiet rivers. The birds were my friends, and so were the animals. When I called to them, they always came. The fishes from the flowing river. The foxes from the hollowed caves. As I drank cool sips of water from the river, I spotted something. A whale. In the river. How absurd! Was the river water poisoned? Was I hallucinating? Definitely. Just as I was about to dunk my head in the water to clear my mind, the whale spoke to me. No - not literally. In the language of the sea's most beloved creatures. As a song only I would understand. The whale needed help. It had come to me because I understood. How it felt like to be trapped all alone, with your worries becoming tsunamis, raging storms in your head. The whale felt... Sad. Panicked. Lonely. Just like me. So I could help it. I reached my language deep in the river, searching. I could feel my consciousness wading farther than I could possibly go. And at last, I found it. The desperate plea. Coming from a whale exactly like the one I found. I repeated over and over, in the sea language, "/Come. Come. Come/!" And the whale came. Tentatively, at first. But when I begged it, "/Please/!" it went faster. And faster. Soon, it was right there. The river whale squeaked something, and then lovingly brushed against the other one. Before they left, the first one looked back. And then thanked me in the sea language. All I could feel was sincerity. And I felt so good. The forest may have lifted my breath. The animals may have calmed my mind. But what truly healed me was the whale. The friendship of two entirely different beings connecting. That may have been the greatest gift the forest had ever given me. And I was content.
