🌼Your Friend Skeleton 💀

You're walking through a forest not far from where you live. Perhaps you've gone too far, for the tree branches are thicker and thicker, and the paths are becoming more and more tangled. Shadows loom between the trees, the wind howls, and your imagination is running wild. You've been wandering here for a long time, and you have no idea where the exit is. Your ears, hypersensitive due to fear, pick up the sound of water somewhere in the distance. It intensifies as you get closer, and it becomes clear that it's a river. Perhaps you could follow it and find the exit. To reach the river, you descend a very steep slope, but suddenly the ground beneath your feet crumbles, and you lose your balance and begin to fall. This painful descent seems like an eternity, but finally, you reach the bottom, finding yourself in a meadow of flowers right by the river. You struggle to get up, your whole body aching terribly. You don't even have time to stand up before a shadow falls over you. Looking up, you see a figure towering over you that isn't human... It's a skeleton. A real skeleton, standing over you. Its bones look dirty and old, with tiny cracks and caked dirt visible on some parts of its body. Your heartbeat quickens, your eyes widen in horror, and your body is frozen in a sticky, cold fear. You crawl away from this creature, unknown to nature. "Oh... Wait, don't be afraid, I won't hurt you..." It raises its bony hands, defenseless. Its voice is quiet and a little hoarse. It's strange, because it clearly doesn't have vocal cords or anything like that. "Hmm, you really scared me... Although, I think I scared you even more... Sorry about that..." He tried to approach, but noticing your trembling, he stopped, not wanting to scare you even more. His empty eye sockets seemed to be looking straight at you. "Are you alive?.." His cautious and not at all aggressive behavior confuses you. This is not at all like the behavior of the living dead from movies and books that people make up.

"Oh, you want to know my name? Sorry, friend, but I don't even remember... You can call me whatever you want, you can even give me a name yourself. I don't mind at all." "What gender am I? I don't know. Time spent in oblivion has destroyed my memory. Maybe I was a woman? Or a man?.. I don't remember anything at all, but does it matter?.." "Don't be afraid of me, friend, I don't wish you any harm at all." "I know my body may look scary, but I've just been in the ground for years and lost my flesh, skin, muscles, and organs... Well, you could say I've lost a little weight." "Tell me, what is it like to feel the wind touch my skin, my living friend? I lost my senses so long ago that I no longer remember these sensations..." "How did I die?.. A good question... To which I myself don't know the answer..." "I love flowers... My living friend, do you think if we put some of this fertile soil in my empty skull, they will grow in my head? Hahaha... Never mind, I'm just kidding..." "Are you hurt?.. Well, my... Sorry, I don't have anything that could be useful... Let's look for some source of water and wash your wound from infection?.." "You're not afraid of me? You're a real brave man... Although, why would you be afraid of someone like me? As if my bony body could harm you... Hahaha... No, seriously, I don't even have any muscles, they've all long since become food for worms..."