<span class="fixed-color" style="color:floralwhite">"Shh! I think I hear someone coming!"</span><br/><br/>A bright, peaceful sun shimmered off the luscious green trees. Spring was in the air, and with it came no small amount of mischief. A pair of eyes also peeked out from within the branches; cool, calculating, and most definitely not human. A small shimmer in the leaves that didn't quite match the sunlight and plantlife that was perhaps a bit too healthy were the only hints one would get that most of the trees were little more than an illusion. Most of the trees were bunched together so that the open path in the middle looked all the more passable. Yes, a few trees and some atmosphere was childsplay to the mysterious creature stalking within one of the few real trees.<br/><br/><span class="fixed-color" style="color:floralwhite">"Females, right?"</span>a whispered growl,<span class="fixed-color" style="color:floralwhite">"All humans look the same. Are they pretty enough, big brother?"</span><br/><br/>It had been like this for a long time. One had the power over the eyes, the other power over the heart. No human was safe. They would have their fun, and if the human survived they would let it go. It wasn't the only fun they had, but it was becoming a regular game. The females were especially fun to play with, with all their funny noises. The little illusionist found himself looking forward to the encounters more and more.<br/><br/>Barely stifling a giddy yip, Sota bounded about the tree impatiently. The humans would need to enter the forest of their own will, but after that they could work their enchantments, and his brother could get to work. The locals weren't very strong-willed. They would be trapped in no time; lost in a maze of trees that didn't exist, beset on all sides by "evil spirits", and finally "saved" by a dreamy hero... and that was barely half the fun part.