Strangled is a short fairy tale written by me, below a redone and improvised version. :)
Music included. (check my audio)

TO DO LIST 'added:

Done:

-The deeper woods
-Beholders bunny pen
-Through the mist
-Tampering with the pump
-A clear day but no throat
-Clarity buried the cat
-Here supposed to be the sea (revelation)
-When you start something (ending)

Inspired by 'strangled'.
(full version on my profile)

Being lost in a giant forrest, youve been there for two months now looking for a way out.. you cannot even remember what the outside world used to look like and have been surviving on provisions but youve run out.., eventually to tired to set another step you drop down on the ground next to a beech tree and fall asleep.

When you wake up things seem to have changed.. everything seems to bark against your pressence. As it starts to rain softly you begin to realise that everything previously inanimate has come to life.

Before you can stand up you are hit on the back of your head by a large object, a loud scream follows and the beech tree sighs..

"oh dear... i may have dropped some nuts"

What is this.. even the nuts have a will of their own..? 'you wonder..
The nuts are as large as a baby.. did the rain make them so? Or did it make you shrink.. but the rain has started to weaken the soil.. you have to get out of here, and that on an empty stomach..

Quickly you pick up the large nuts and build yourself a hill.

'what now.. this might be the end' you cough and try to wipe off the droplets.. from the ground 'nosy an odd white bunny sticks out its fluffy head..

"do not mind that bunny" speaks a voice from above.. you look up and see a giant caterpillar with a moustache stare straight at you with its big black eyes..

"i warn you now i frown at that if you go below, the world turns upside down'

Ah! down below, there must be a warm room under there, perhaps some food..

disregarding the caterpillars advice you start to look around, not ten feet from your location arcs a giant round door like disc surrounded by a fog previously not present.. and with the sound of creeking metal it starts to turn and open..

'did the bunnys welcome me into their land?'

Inside receeding steps reveal an ancient cave marked with carved walls... around the decorative balancing creeps a tentacle.. and slowly receeds together with you as you proceed..

At the bottom it starts to speak.

"turn back, do you not see your actions have an effect? please listen and return before all goes bad'

But you mind it not and continue into the bunny's lair.

The lair is covered in blood.. thats odd.. and in the wall is set in stone a turtle shaped pedestal, down the lair you can already see the bunny's.. have they been attacked?

But these were no bunnys, they were meat cutting spiked like the blades of scissors and their eyes glowing an eerie sight, you were ambushed by these monsters the blood was of their victims..

No, you are going to fight.

You are bigger, they are smaller so you grab them by the throat and snuff out their light.

In the back their eggs you find covering a large turtle shaped stone..
You smash the eggs and take it with you serves these monsters right to be ransacked.
Now that you think of it was there not some pedestal you had found? But when you try it wont fit perhaps you should turn the stone upside down.

The pedestal clicks and from the corridor previously walked you hear a loud bang and pieces of the tentacle are flying around.

You panic and rush back up the stairs, you need to get out of here.. what if this stone triggered a curse of some kind..

Into the mist outside you run and stop for nothing, sometimes just a moment you can hear something coughing and shapes of faces flying, this cant be true the mist came from their sighing.

This forrest is hell, and these are its demons, you must have died and this is your atonement.

Before your eyes rises a giant machine from the thick mist as if it could not have gotten worse, on top of it sits the strangest thing.. a droplet with arms legs and a face..

"welcome to the 'spring visitor, my name is sylphid.. whats that? you were lost and are oh so curious curious? haha!.. so am i so am i.. haha.. HRAH!! there is this annoying law here saying not to 'tamper' with the spring's pump.. well i 'tinkered' with it so that doesnt count right? Oh come on you should tinker with it too, afterall you are curious curious?"

Sylphid was right, afterall you wanted to escape this godforsaken place..
chances were small if you would do it at your own pace and what could possibly go wrong?
Carefully you took sylphids childish advice and pulled out a pipe from the machine, and it began to roar.
The mist shattered slowly and you could finally see the woods, you could see its deer, its wolves and even its mice.
You have been saved..Sylphid was right, what a friend he helped you to get home, and now the road was paved, but hold on.. this was not the end..
The woods began to dry, and even its ponds and lakes, you could see its roots, its birds and even its fish.

Now you yourself fell thirsty, yet the spring's no longer there, and sylphid vanished laughing because you believed his lie.

So once again you walked into the deeper woods, perhaps now with the mist gone youll find the way home on your own.
'what have you done' coughed something from above, looking up you notice its the caterpillar with a moustache.
'do you now see what has become of your actions? youve doomed us all for your sole comfort you are alone'
But you didnt mean to, you had to make this better.. you could not leave the forrest dried.. you lived here for a reason.
The city had that element of suprise, everyone together.. mash and smuther you with its petty rules, its corrupt laws, its fools that putted a price on everything sacred.
No, you couldnt return to that place and had to fix this, any way possible any way right.

The city had been harsh on you, did you leave for the wrong reasons? This was no place to hide.
You couldnt breathe, and werent the kind to join their side if you could not beat them; they were the monsters, it were those men acting like they were your boss.
So here is the problem, another man dried out, another man had been strangled.. and a the reason to pick a fight, but you arent like that..
You wanted to be kinder, to listen to ideas.. to curiously work together finding some way out, but they wouldnt.
The city could be greater, made a place that allways trembled.. the deeper woods of choices, the rabbit hole of thought, and through the mist of others oh how you hate their squabling, their bickering their nonsense, their lies yes you should break them..
To pieces so youll find out what keeps them going, but you couldnt..
You wanted to be decent, though solemn you'll attend them, though silent you might mention, and clearer you might be then..then they might listen..act and the city would come later...it can wait.

Softly you felt it now, through all the confusion clearer, it revealed.
Set no step, moved no inch.. calm.
The rain had never ended and here supposed to be the sea.
And then below the beech tree carefully opening your eyes, the fear of pain you had attended running without a moment free was gone and you stand.
Enough nuts lying around, you could build a house right here so was this all a dream? You thought and started walking..
Were you truly gone or was this where youve gone, be truly lost from the land or back where you belong..
The rain had never ended and here supposed to be the sea, the rain had never ended and here supposed to be the sea.

-finished.