My Neighbor Totoro

"You’ll find someone, and they’ll find you. Don’t give up. Just relax they’ll find you.”

❝ I was created to      look after the forest,      not to be loved. ❞

"And yet you met me? That was something? When I was young that something small Just find someone to  be there to talk to a least. I learned that the hard way. All I ask. Spirit or not.”

❝ You brought me      a different kind of      companionship,      Julius. You are in      my heart as a      member of a family      that I have never had.      I cannot leave this      forest, I must wait      for someone to      find me. ❞

"Well for the factor that you being here alone in the woods with them is one thing but still not having someone is another and yes I do admit I do tend to worry but still its just one who knows to be alone for a long time I just know  is all.”

❝ Julius, I am not      a human, nor am      I a spirit. I do not      feel that type of      loneliness. ❞

"Well you should find someone a least to be with. Alone is never a good thing you know that.”

❝ Oh Julius, you      think so much      like the people of      this planet. As      long as I have the      forest, I am not      alone. ❞

"Have I? I am pretty tall and a bit handsome so my love says."

❝ She would know      better than I would,      my friend. ❞

"Yes the same and one and only. It’s me Julius. Different face but me.”

❝ You have gotten       tall, haven't you? ❞

Tree Spirits - oil on canvas Based on Studio Ghibli’s Princess Mononoke

"Once, do you remember a little boy here ginger boy. Long ago. Abit trouble some?  I kind of been here once before. Kind of well get abit trouble sometimes”

❝ Julius? My little      friend? ❞

"Ah I just was in the area and decided to drop by and say hello to an old friend of mine and see how you we’re.”

❝ We have only met      once before. ❞

"Far from here, way way far from here. It’s planet called  Gallifery most don’t know of it. Mostly because its gone, it was around its hidden and in its in secret.”

❝ What brings you      to my forest? ❞

"She’s rather a quiet one, a bit fragile at times. I think its another reason why father named her that.”

❝ Where do you      come from? You      do not smell of      the Earth. ❞

"I can, she’ll love you. She loves to meet spirits to be honest. Her names Gwen if your curious, Gwen Maclean." He said in adjusting his hands out of his pockets when he touched his arm. He knew she wanted to see her then again the two knew each other for a long time. So it would be nice to have someone know her also.

     ❝ You love her, very much. ❞ ( It was not a question--it was a statement of fact, what she could sense in his heart. She had been able to read him like a book after they'd met but it had taken time. He was not of her planet, and she found herself stumped by him sometimes, even still. )

"It’s a name for an animal, everyone does it for animals from time to time. My sister is just cute for the names her names Rain.”

❝ Rain. Rain is a      good name. I      know that storms      seem destructive      to you but to me,      and to my forest,      they bring new life. ❞

"You could say that, its one that I’ve had for some time. She is kind, you’d like her actually." he said in a small smile in adjusting his hands into his own pockets after letting her sniff the rose that he gave her.

( She smiled and her eyes studied his ring, curious. It was an ancient custom from his planet for both the man and woman to wear a ring for engagement, and she was pleased to see he'd kept to that tradition. She touched his arm, gently, as though he were her family. And in a way, she saw him as that. )