{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Audius","provider_url":"https://audius.co","title":"JOURNEY TO THE FOREST OF VISION by Justin Empire • Audius","description":"JOURNEY TO THE FOREST OF VISION\n\nSomewhere beyond the lands known to man, there is a forest that should not exist.\n\nFor years, a small band of friends have gathered around dinner tables, dreaming of an impossible adventure.\n\nTheir greatest treasure is an old, weathered map discovered among the belongings of one friend's grandfather after his passing.\n\nUpon it is marked a place no modern map can find.\n\nA forest.\n\nNot merely a forest, but a mysterious land beyond mountains, deserts, rivers and forgotten kingdoms — a place that seems to exist somewhere beyond the edge of the known world.\n\nThey talk of going there for years.\n\nThey study the map.\n\nThey imagine the routes.\n\nThey argue over which mountains they would cross and which rivers they would follow.\n\nBut it remains nothing more than a dream.\n\nUntil one evening…\n\none of them wins the lottery.\n\nSuddenly, the impossible becomes possible.\n\nWith fortunes enough to fund the expedition, the friends gather their supplies, bid farewell to the world they know and set forth upon the greatest journey of their lives.\n\nTheir path takes them across magnificent lands they could never have imagined.\n\nThey cross towering mountains where the clouds drift beneath their feet.\n\nThey follow wild rivers through forgotten valleys.\n\nThey cross burning deserts beneath ancient stars.\n\nThey pass through strange and wondrous cities filled with languages, customs and peoples they had only ever dreamed of meeting.\n\nAnd always, they follow the old map.\n\nUntil one day…\n\nthey reach the forest.\n\nBut this is no ordinary forest.\n\nIts trees rise higher than castles, their branches forming vast green cathedrals beneath the sky.\n\nStrange flowers bloom without sunlight.\n\nThe air itself seems to shimmer with enchantment.\n\nRivers flow through the woodland, and when the travellers drink from them, the water tastes like the sweetest flavoured soda they have ever known.\n\nFruit grows upon magnificent trees, each bite more delicious than anything they have tasted in their lives.\n\nAnd somewhere beyond the trees live the people of the forest.\n\nInstead of fear, the travellers are met with friendship.\n\nInstead of suspicion, they receive hospitality.\n\nThe people welcome them into their homes, share their food and invite them to witness the wonders of their extraordinary world.\n\nIt is everything the friends ever dreamed of.\n\nPerhaps even more.\n\nBut then they meet a mysterious traveller.\n\nA wandering priest who seems to know far more about them than he should","html":"","width":500,"height":480,"thumbnail_url":"https://audius-discovery-3.altego.net/content/baeaaaiqsechh2sx6hfk4di67vdw5mhbu5kvr4fcywwdaauuusaifojd6t6j4a/480x480.jpg","thumbnail_width":480,"thumbnail_height":480,"author_name":"Justin Empire","author_url":"https://audius.co/kissinginlove","cache_age":3600}