a drink we call loneliness

I am walking towards a forest, I simply want to go deeper, I have no more reasons to stay in the kingdom, I only wear my leather clothing, a sword, a knife, and on the strap my crossed-out insignia.

I kept walking more and more until a moose gave me a great scare and I realized that in that forest there were only animals that could not cause me great harm, so I decided to leave my sword stuck in the ground, out of nowhere owls began to hoot filling the place of their song. At first, I did not care and kept moving forward but after walking a few more meters I heard a woman hum a beautiful song. Instinctively I started calling her, I wanted to know if there were more people around here but no one answered me, I kept moving even deeper, the fog thickened and I slowed down until I saw her, a hooded shadow approached me and instantly my chest began to hurt, I fell to my knees without being able to do more and she spoke to me, she spoke to me with a very soft but imposing voice ...

-I just want to know only 2 things: Who sent you? and because?

- No one has sent me - I said quickly - I am an exile, they condemned me to spend the rest of my life away from the kingdom, my emblem shows you - I show him my crossed out insignia with trembling hands - they only do this with exiles, no we can never take it off, that's the law.

- .....Then what do you want?

-My name is Randall and I just want a place to live, I thought that this forest would be inhabited only by animals and I did not expect to find another person here. -with a pleading voice I managed to say- If you are the guardian of this land please let me live here, I will comply with the conditions you want.

-Okay, don't disturb living beings here and don't make noise.

And so the pain disappeared, when I looked up it was gone, leaving thousands of doubts, everything happened so fast that my mind could barely process what it was saying, I got up and from a distance, I heard it.

-There's a very old house up ahead -she said nonchalantly- go straight ahead and be careful not to get lost, that's easy here.

At first, it seemed very strange to me that he agreed so quickly, or that he was leading me into a trap or planning to do something with me. Without thinking, I went where she told me (I know, very smart, right?). After all, he had no other options for where to go. As the woman said, after walking for a while I found the cabin and it was in better condition than I imagined for an abandoned house. Upon entering I found some stacked pieces of wood, some tools, and an ax. From what was here, it was obvious that the place belonged to a lumberjack.

Well, I thought aloud, I guess first of all I should look for some source of water ...

But before I could finish the sentence

-There is one nearby -she intervened again- exactly to the left when leaving the cabin but beware that the fog is very deceptive.

I was afraid, at what moment did she come in? I didn't hear her coming

- Thanks for the info...