Into the Woods

The Gallagher Mansion has been rebuilt. They tried to make it as much like it used to be as possible. A stone castle blown in from the past.

But it somehow didn't have the same feel.

The Woods were a different matter. I was raised in the country and i spent a lot of time in the woods.My Dad taught wilderness survival (when he wasn't working with the Government)

I hunted, hiked, camped. I lived, loved, and breathed the woods.

They told me not to stray off the trail. Land mined, they said. And it was and you shouldn't.

But I know landmines, and I know woods. I found a lovely little path. You have to walk on this 3 little rocks, and on to a fallen tree. But it isn't. This tree has been here for a long, long time.

Anyway, you walk across it. From the end of the fallen tree, it you stand on the root ball, you can grab onto a rope hanging from a tree. It's camouflaged to blend into the woods, and i only found it because i went to sit on the end on the tree, amoungst the cool roots sticking up in all directions and felt something hit me in the face. i pulled on it and it stayed put. If you look at it at just the right angle, you can see it stretching up into a near by oak tree.

When i came back the next day, i climbed up it. From the tree i found a little hut hidden up there. A tiny platform. And rope bridges made of the same camo rope. Some had camouflaged material and some had moss and old gunk hanging off it. the deeper into the mined woods i went, the more....posh...the tree huts got. Until i found "the hub"

 

                                                                A tree house with ropes leading off in all different directions.

I found some pretty old things, from Gallagher girls of the past.

Notes for an ancient cov-ops class. just saying Miss Julie from long ago, Your teacher and mine should totally meet up. They would love each other.  But then everyone loves Abby




-K