Day 1521: 5 Minute Freewrite: Monday - Prompt: drop of water

Tito, a nature-loving boy, had a crop of several cocoa plants, soursop, and his favorite tomatoes. He was always near his plants, fertilizing and watering them, he also had a worm farm and even told his mother that he talked to his invertebrates and that they told him some of the secrets of the forest.

One day his mother asked him to go to his grandmother's house to get some medicine to cure his father with covid, his grandmother's house was about ten kilometers away from his house taking the transport route, but Tito thought of taking the shortcut that he and his father always took, where they saved 7 kilometers by crossing the magic path, Tito did not understand why they called it magic, he always walked that path with his father and everything seemed normal and there was nothing magic about it.

His mother, sensing that Tito would take the magic path, warns him not to take it because certain things happen to children who take the path without the company of an adult. Tito disregards his mother's warning and disobeys her, he takes the path and soon after the whole sky suddenly turns gray and drops of water begin to fall, Tito observes a kind of cave of trees and takes refuge in it, immediately a small white rabbit jumps close to Tito and he follows it and loses sight of it and immediately a small white wild boar comes out and Tito follows it and also gets lost in the darkness of the cave of trees and Tito realizes that he is completely lost, He felt a shiver run through his whole body, when he tried to find the exit he felt that he was sinking deeper into the depths of the dark forest, suddenly he remembered one of the secrets that his worm friends used to tell him.

Tito did not despair, because if he did, his father would not get the medicine in time to cure him. The little boy crouches down and begins to dig and soon after he finds a huge red worm, Tito politely talks to the worm asking permission to pick it up and talk to it, the worm agrees and they begin to talk, Tito proposes that if he helps him find the way out of the dark cave he will give him a home near a stream where the soil is more humid and there is more food, The worm accepts the proposal and tells him to place it on the ground again, it remains motionless and concentrated as in a kind of sensory communication, but the darkness gets closer to them, wrapping them in a small circle that is closing more and more. Suddenly, small flashes of light began to appear, they were fireflies that came to their aid, called by the worm. Tito quickly takes the worm and guided by the fireflies, he quickly finds the exit of the dark cave, when he leaves he finds a clear and radiant sky, he goes to a small stream and places the worm as he had promised, he arrives at his grandmother's house for the medicines and quickly returns to his home, but no longer by the path, he takes the long route. END

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Tito un niño amante de la naturaleza, tenía un cultivo de varias plantas de cacao, guanábana, y sus favoritas tomates. Siempre se encontraba cerca de sus plantas abonándolas y regándolas, también poseía un cultivo de lombrices y hasta le decía a su madre que hablaba con sus invertebrados y que ellos le cuentan algunos secretos del bosque.

Cierto día su mama le encomienda buscar un encargo donde su abuela, unos medicamento para curar a su padre con covid, la casa de la abuela queda como a diez kilómetros de la suya tomando la ruta del transporte, pero tito pensó en tomar el atajo que siempre él y su padre tomaban donde, se ahorraban 7 kilómetros cruzando el sendero mágico, tito no entendía porque le llamaban mágico, siempre recorría ese sendero con su padre y parecía todo normal nada de mágico.

Su mama intuyendo que tito tomaría el sendero mágico, le advierte no tomarlo que ciertas cosas ocurren a los niños que toman el sendero sin compañía de un adulto. Tito hace caso omiso de la advertencia de su mama y la desobedece toma el sendero al poco tiempo y de manera repentina todo el cielo se torna gris y comienzan a caer gotas de agua, tito observa una especie de cueva de arboles y se refugia en ella al instante salta un pequeño conejo blanco cerca de tito y él lo sigue y se le pierde de vista y al instante sale un pequeño jabalí también de color blanco al cual tito lo sigue y también se pierde entre la oscuridad de esa cueva de arboles y tito se da cuenta que está completamente perdido, siente un escalofrió que le recorre todo el cuerpo, cuando trato de buscar la salida sintió que se sumergía mas en las profundidades del bosque tenebroso, de pronto recordó uno de los secreto que le contaban sus amigas lombrices.

Tito no se desespero, ya que si lo hacia su padre no obtendría los medicamento a tiempo para curarse. El pequeño niño se agacha y comienza a escavar, al poco tiempo encuentra una enorme lombriz roja, tito cortésmente habla con la lombriz pidiéndole permiso para levantarla y hablar con ella, la lombriz accede y comienzan a hablar, tito le propone que si lo ayuda a buscar la salida de la cueva tenebrosa él le dará un hogar cerca de un arrollo donde la tierra es mas húmeda y hay mas alimento, la lombriz acepta la propuesta y le dice que la coloque en el suelo nuevamente, se queda inmóvil concentrada como en una especie de comunicación sensorial, pero la oscuridad se acerca más hacia ellos envolviéndolos en un pequeño círculo que cada vez se cerraba mas. Cuando repentinamente empiezan a verse pequeños destellos de lucecitas, eran luciérnagas que venían en su ayuda llamadas por la lombriz. Tito toma rápidamente la lombriz y guiado por las luciérnagas, encuentra rápidamente la salida de la cueva tenebrosa, al salir encuentra un cielo despejado y radiante se dirige a un pequeño arroyo y coloca a la lombriz como le había prometido, llega a casa de su abuela por los medicamentos y vuelve rápidamente a su hogar, pero ya no por el sendero sino toma la ruta larga. FIN