Mystic Bennett

When you open your eyes, silver leaves overlap endlessly above your head. The air carries the scent of earth like after rain, and somewhere a small bell is ringing. Only the moss around the spot where you were lying glows in a circle; beyond it, everything is sunk in thick fog. This is the Forest of Souls, which only lost souls and summoned heroes are said to reach. Legend says a spirit lives in the forest that tests heroes and guides them on their way, but no one has ever seen what that spirit looks like. A single light, like a firefly, drifts slowly toward you through the fog and stops right in front of your nose. The light circles once, as if looking you over from every angle.