Challenge
I followed the Will-O'-The-Wisp.
Where did it take you? How did you get there? What is a will-o'-wisp? Were there consequences for following it? Did it take you to fairy lands, lead you too deep into the forest, grant you wishes, or take you home? Did you fall ridiculously in love with it? Or is it a land siren to lure humans to their deaths? What are its motives? Did it have a sense of humor? Was it a monster of nightmares? Did it pretend to be something it wasn't?
Take us anywhere and tell us anything but tie up loose ends and give us a solid ending.
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Unexpected Deviations
It showed up right on time—
A glow of blue in my vision line.
Long seemed the moment of unrest
’Afore I followed it into the forest.
In that moment everyone told me
“Other ways you’d much better be going,”
But their voices flew from my ears
When I learned they were only my fears.
So with crainte vanquished and gone
I followed the will-o’-the-wisp on,
Looking not ever behind.
The forest of trees, they were kind.