I awoke with a shiver, the morning dew damp and cold against my back. As I waited for the fog to clear from my brain, I tried to remember back, unsure where I lie, or how I had come to be here. My eyes slowly adjusted, and then focused.

On her.

An angelic bemused looking face, surrounded by a canopy of woodlands.

This day was about to either get really good and interesting -
Or get really, really bad, and horribly, horribly wrong.

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(argh - I just saw a color issue on the dress...wasn't apparent til i was on a "good" monitor. Fixed it and reloaded)

Only 2 pieces of wonderful stock, but spent a lot if time manipulating lighting, dress color (it was red and black) and tried a slight overlay of texture...not really good at that ...yet.

Thanks to the artistes for sharing their stock!
Such a beautiful maiden, at a great angle! [link] inspired the manip, especially when I saw from the intriguing
- her wonderful upward focused view of the forest [link] - The backstory was born from this!

Thank you both again for Sharing your talents!