Once again, Lisanne felt compelled to stray from the pathway and venture into the shady,cool canopy of trees. The woods had always been a favorite place for Lisanne to spend time meditating and recharging after a stressful day. Usually she stayed on the walking path and enjoyed the smells and sounds of the forest without having to don hiking boots and mosquito repellent, but lately the shadowy depth of trees had beckoned to her...something seemed to reach out into the sunny open pathway and urge Lisanne to 'come inside..I am here..'
She had not added hiking boots to her 'after-work' change of clothes, but HAD thrown in a sample sized bottle of spray-on bug repellent. So as she stood just outside the wall of trees separating light from dark, she liberally applied the spray to her arms, legs, neck...everywhere. Lisanne was well aware of the discomfort of dozens of insect bites on parts of her body that shouldn't be scratched in public!
Wiping her oily hands on her cut-offs (which were part of her standard 'wind down after work' attire) Lisanne found a spot in the tangle of trees and vines that looked navigable, and stepped into the woods.
The feeling that had pestered her every other evening that week came over her again....as if something deep in the woods had called out to her, begging her to come closer. Strangely, she did not find this to be a 'creepy' feeling, instead she felt a strange excitement as she ventured deeper into the mossy world.
A small clearing opened before her, rather unexpectedly, and Lisanne realized she was slightly out of breath. The hike must have been uphill, because she had worked up a sweat. After taking a couple of drinks from her water-bottle, she looked around for a place to sit and rest for a minute.
To her left was a fallen tree, covered with moss on one side, but fairly clean and smooth on the top. As she started to sit down, she realized that the tree was NOT dead, just bent over at a crazy angle by some force of nature she could not imagine! The roots still clung firmly into the ground, and green leaves were visible on the far-reaching branches that spread out around her.
Lisanne sat down on the broad trunk and wiggled to find a comfortable position. She found that straddling the trunk was much better and so she prepared to rest there a while, still catching her breath.
Suddenly she became aware of a movement underneath her! She jumped from her seat and looked down expecting to see a frog or some other woodland critter she had accidentally sat on. But the only thing there was a strange protrusion appearing to grow out of the tree trunk. Lisanne knew it had not been there before, but now here it was!
It looked kind of like a new branch just sprouting from the tree. Lisanne touched it---it was WARM, and as she watched in amazement, it appeared to grow another half inch in length!
Lisanne knelt down for a closer look. The 'sprout' was almost perpendicular to the rest of the trunk, and very sturdy. It was sheathed in a soft green moss, except on the very tip, which was slightly damp from some type of secretion coming from a cleft in the tip!
As Lisanne realized what the strange growth reminded her of, she laughed out loud! A penis-shaped fast-growing sprout that seemed now to respond to her laughter! Yes, as she chuckled in amazement, the thing seemed to expand and extend in length, and she felt the uncontrollable urge to touch it again.