Suspenseful nothings (2)

Here is the second part of Suspenseful Nothings . :-)

"Lucy! Oh, Lucy!"Sarah called out in alarm. The woods looked dark and foreboding, and, alas, she could see no Lucy.
Meanwhile, Lucy had just walked around a huge oak tree when the danger of the wood came upon her. The danger was something almost indescribable, as it was not any thing at all, at least not a physical thing.... The best way it could be described was as a big dark cloud that formed in a person's mind. As Lucy looked around the wood, she suddenly saw distorted faces in tree trunks, and eyes peering out of every crevice and corner. The tree's branches turned into claws that seemed to stretch out their knobby hands to grab at her. She tried to shut out the sight by closing her eyes, but it did no good! She could still see the foreboding wood, and the terror the trees contained. She finally collapsed on an old rock, and cried very hard.
Sarah ran at top speed, crashing wildly against tree branches and tripping over stones and pebbles, but pushing forward nonetheless. Her hair ribbon fell out, and was lost amongst dead leaves. The hem of her dress was torn into shreds, and she was starting to feeling tired and hungry. Where had Lucy gone? And where was mother? The forest began to dim, for the afternoon sun was slowly fading, disappearing behind the horizon. Sarah knew her search for Lucy was almost hopeless, and with that, she flung herself down on a rock and cried most bitterly.
When Sarah awoke (for she was so worn out she had fallen asleep), it was to find herself in the midst of a glittering forest; all the trees were alight with the sun, and every thing was wet and moist, not from dew, but rain. Sarah knew it must be rain, for her hair and clothes were very wet, and the rock she was sleeping on felt slippery. She got up at once, and stretched, walking very slowly around the clump of maple trees, that were huddled together in the most frightful fashion. Her first thought was to eat breakfast, but what was there to eat? In this forest, one could not be certain whether every thing in it was poisonous, or if there was some thing good in it too. As these thoughts crossed her mind, she ran into tree, and fell onto a large growth of very wet moss, for moss acts as a soft carpet does when you spill a glass of water on it; it absorbs all the water it can, and, unless you can clean it up in time, will become most irksome, particularly if you walk over it with wool socks, for then your socks absorb the water too, and make it very uncomfortable walking, not to mention that the socks can then spread water to many other places on the carpet, where the same thing happens all over again. Needless to say, Sarah was soaked through (if she wasn't already) when she arose, and felt greater despair than before.
"I say! Can I help you?" Sarah was confronted with a boy not much older than she. He looked strong and sure o himself, only he was slightly green.
"Do you happen to sell green beans, and other canned goods?" Sarah couldn't help but ask.
"Oh, no!" the boy laughed. "That's my father.... His name is the "Green Giant." He can't seem to figure out why I'm not growing as big as him. He even feeds me Lima beans, and I don't grow an inch! Oh, well, that's not what I came for...... Are you needing help?"
"Um, yes, actually," Sarah stammered. "You see, my sister Lucy is lost in the wood in our Living room, and mother fell off to the side of an oak tree or something, and I don't know what's edible in this whole wide wood!"
"Huh! That's easy! Go find your mother and your sister, and eat Green Giant green beans." he turned to go.
"Um, it's not all that easy for me, you see, I don't know where my mother or sister are and-"
"That's why you need to find them."
"And how am I to find them? And where are you father's delicious green beans?"
The boy thought for a moment. Then he shrugged his shoulders and said, "I don't know..." and walked away, leaving a very puzzled Sarah to try and fend for herself.

To be continued later (though nothing happened in this chapter)......