965 In Another Life, Part 1

"Here we are," Amanda proclaimed, lifting her thumb off the thumbstick; the Leonardo on-screen coming to a halt in the middle of an open glade amidst a seemingly endless maze of barks and branches. "The Great Forest of Valenia." 

'Great' was right, alright. There wasn't an inch on the map compass in the upper right that wasn't layered in some shade of green.

Something I didn't expect to happen was me recognizing the view. This wasn't the first time I've seen this forest. Then I realized why, it was the trees. Valenia trees. Hence, the name. 

This was the same verdant of leaves, bushes, and streams that Ash had been living in with her sister. I remembered seeing this same place in her dream, her memories, the two of them together living in peace deep inside a burrow bored from a mound in the earth.

Of all the places for Dad to start reminiscing over… who would have thought?