VISUAL PROMPT
by Troy Olson @Unsplash

Your protagonist has recurring nightmares about this place...
The Red
The trees all looked to the sky in a crimson gaze. The stars offered all their colour to them and the trees decided to reflect it back with the colour of vengeance.
The roots bled into the ground as the soil beneath it stained the ground below. I stood beneath it, wondering, waiting.
Why was this happening?
The surreal image before me shook my mind and soul as the scent of pine lifted into the air around us. The smell turned rotten and the world began to stutter. Fragments of leaves broke off from the tree and landed on me, liquifying into a sticky red sap which blotted onto my skin. The tree grew covering the sky around me until there wasn't a star in sight.
That's when I woke up.
