I have entered the forest, as soon as I did I felt a childish desire that I could not shake. I climbed the nearest tree I could. These are large trees, much bigger than the saplings we occasionally have planted in Doturim and almost matching the great tree in the sacred garden, though it was strictly forbidden to climb that one. I climbed it with some difficulty but I had done it. This was an entire forest and before I regained my senses, I had wasted half a day climbing taller trees. By late afternoon I had climbed over twenty such trees but fortunately I soon discovered that I had climbed the tallest one in at least this part of the forest. My appetite for this endeavor has at least for the time being been sated. I will sleep tonight in the canopy above the road, it seems safer with a vantage point to sleep. I can see the forest ends several miles down the path into the clearing. If I keep my pace up I should make it past the clearing and even further tomorrow.