text: [Themes: fantasy]
  
  The long foggy road seems like an ominous looking place, but Bara feels that it is the way to go. The road is completely straight, and doesn't turn, or dip, or rise, it just goes on and on forever. At least it feels like forever to Bara. After flying along the road for some time, and having the fog grow thicker and thicker, it comes to the point where she can't see anymore. Bara starts to panic, as she can't see the road. How can she know if she's still on it. Maybe it turned off a while ago, and she's getting herself right lost. And then she comes to a sign in the road, that doesn't make her feel better, the sign says 'Lost Road'. The fog has formed a clearing here, and paths branch off to the north, east, south, and west. Bara finds a note on the back of the sign, it reads;
  
  "Bara, it's me. Do you remember? We came here together and got lost. But we found our way out. Do you remember the pattern? I have no time to write it here, but please find me, before it is to late."
  
  Whoever wrote the note seems to know Bara. But should she trust this unknown thing. Maybe it's the spirit she saw that drew her into this maddening place. Bara is supposed to remember a pattern, but what could it be? surly it must be a combination of ups downs lefts and rights, but what combination is it? Bara takes a wild guess and starts off a pattern. What pattern do you think it may be?
  
  > East, north, east, north, north, west
  That pattern does seem familiar. Bara tries it out. She flys to the east until she comes to another clearing identical to the last one, but with no sign, just a letter N, and an arrow pointing up. North no doubt. She follows that path, and then finds another clearing, where she goes east again. She goes about her pattern, until she has repeated it three times. This time as the fog dissipates, she is greeted with a larger clearing. A wall of weeping willows surrounds an old stump. There is little light in this clearing, and it casts many shadows, but none of this is what scares Bara. What scares her is the body of a young child, laid across the old stump. The body is of a young girl, no older then 16. Her arms are spread out at her sides, brushing the ground, and her head just clears the stump so that it tilts back a little, while her longs blonde hair is spread out all over the place. There is a small black spot on the child's chest, about the size of Bara, or that other spirit.
  
  Bara eventually breaks from her daze of staring at the body, frightened, and looks around some more, to find the other spirit. She eventually sees it, hovering in a corner. As she approaches it, a name pops into her mind.
  
  'Will?' she says. The spirit turns around.
  
  'You remember me now? You found me.' It says
  
  'I just remembered your name, what are you looking at?' Bara replies. The spirit moves out of the way and Bara is shocked to find another body, this time of a boy, the same age as the girl. He is lying on his side, with one hand outstretched towards the girl. He too has a black spot on his chest.
  
  'Who is this?' Bara asks
  
  'It's me of course.' Will (At least Bara assumes that's his name now) says.
  
  'But how can that be. You're you, and he's him, right?' Bara asks again.
  
  'What do you think a spirit is?' Will asks, himself. Bara knows, though, exactly what a spirit is. An old fairy told her once, but she didn't believe what it told her. But now Bara looks over at the body of the little girl, and suddenly a whole river of memories comes to her all at once.
  
  She sees the girl running down a path, with the boy in front of her (Will if the spirit tells the truth). The two come to a clearing, not unlike this one. They sit on the stump, and stare at a necklace they found. All of a sudden a huge shadowy figure knocks Will away into a corner. Then the figure grabs at the necklace, but the girl keeps her grip. The figure gets angry and strikes the girl. The necklace breaks as she falls back, and the figure rushes away. The girl turns her head to the boy. The boy reaches for her, but stops and slumps over. Then the girl too looks back up, one last time, before her head tilts back like it is now. And from the center of her chest, a light appears. And the light floats out of her body, to form a small pink ball. The girl is Bara.
  
  Bara is scared now. She remembers eveything. She used to be a little girl, who came to this forest to play her friend will. But one day a monster killed them both, and now here she is.
  
  'You know now. You can go.' Will says
  
  'Go where?' Bara asks.
  
  'To where the spirits go, when they've finished their business. I'm sure yours was to find me, 'cause mine was to find you. So will you go with me now?' Will explains.
  
  So will you?
  
  > go with Will
  Bara is reluctant to trust the spirit she just met. But she is overwhelmed with the memories of knowing him since she was a baby. So Bara slowly flys to the spirit and says 'We can go then, to the place spirits go, and be happy.'
  
  Now spirits don't have faces, but if they did, Will would be smiling.
  
  'Let's go then.' He says, and as he does, the back wall of trees disappears in a brilliant light. Bara starts to feel warm inside. She looks down at herself, and realizes she has her body back. She looks up and so does will. They take each others hand, and go into the light. To where the spirits go. To where they can be happy.