is this a trick

JUNIPER

you think i'm happy because i'm smiling,
but it's the easiest thing to do

Juniper blinked. "You were in Halo?"

The woman's story sounded too fantastical to be true, and Juniper reminded herself once again that outsiders could lie -- that unlike the people she'd spent the first 50 years of her life around, an outsider could simply say things that were not true. What if this woman had some sinister motive for entering the Greatwood, and had fabricated a tale -- about a dragon, of all things -- to explain her presence?

Though ... Juniper had to think that if she were lying, she would have chosen something a little more believable.

"These are Ludo's Woods," Juniper said, feeling her skin crawl a little at the idea of actually touching the skin-like trees. "It's ... our graveyard."

if you looked a little closer,
you'd find my eyes aren't smiling too.

table by Skylark