NaNoWriMo

April 12th, 1986

A tall man in a brown suede jacked was trudging through the mud in the woods.  His tan boots now looked brown up to the ankles covered in mud.  He had abandoned the trails that most people kept to on a hunt for a special type of mushroom.  He needed it for an experiment he was going to try.  The mushroom he sought after had special magical qualities he needed for his experiment.  According to his book that had been handed down from generation to generation, further back then any family tree could go, the mushrooms could be used in the love potion that he wanted to try out on his very pretty next door neighbor (who was happily married mind you) but also in the magical mirror potion, that was used to see the future.  He hoped to find lots of these mushrooms but had taken the book with him to compare the pictures of other plants with magical characteristics.
He had his book open to page 723 where there was a very large picture of the mushroom he needed.  There were also a warning on this page about some of the mushrooms that look similar, and a nasty picture of a rash that one of those mushrooms can give you on the opposite page.  The man was staring back and forth from the book to a mushroom a few feet in front of him.  He had finally decided to pick the mushroom, after all he was wearing gloves and he started to walk in its direction.  As he bent down to pick it up, being careful not to lose the page in his book, a bare foot, and leg crossed in front of him nearly stepping on his precious mushroom.  He looked to see who the appendages belonged to, and he saw to his surprise, and splendor a beautiful women wearing nothing at all.  Her long blonde hair covered a lot of her, but it was so beautiful that he was not dismayed by this.  He stood staring at her for a long moment before he spoke.  “Who are you?”  She stared back at him a little like she didn’t understand.  “I am lily of the forest.  I am the most beautiful of women you will ever see, and that mushroom you seek can not change what is meant to be” She scampered off quickly as he absorbed what she said.