Part 7; Evergreen and Silver; Touched by the Queen

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Thank you for your patience, anyone who was waiting for another part in this series. It sometimes just so hard to get the AI to make what I want, and sometimes it is just too hard for me to describe what's in my head. But anyway, Arani, Kahle and Shaiya are back, though sadly not exactly in the image.

Too mesmerized to even speak, the trio followed the woman through the forest and found a campfire awaiting them, surrounded by slender logs on which they sat, but what fascinated them even more was the wide entrance to a cave looming right next to the campsite. And at the other end the tunnel (or what seemed so) were hundreds of tiny lights floating and buzzing around like fireflies.
They all sat down by the fire with the green-clad woman and stared at her in wide-eyed silence as she stretched forth her hand toward them.
Shaiya, who was sitting the farthest from her, was the first to reach out, if not slowly. As her fingertips touched the woman's, she felt a strange cold shock run through her body and then a warm one, and it seemed that, for a fleeting second, the veins in her hand lit up and shone through her skin like flowing golden lightning.
"Stretch forth your hands," she said softly, to Arani and Kahle. "Anyone whose hand is not touched by the Queen of the Winter Wood will be devoured by the beasts that roam it."
Arani and Kahle felt the same hot/cold and lit-up sensation as Shaiya had when the Queen of the Winter Wood touched their hands, even ever-so-slightly, with her fingertips.
And then, suddenly, a deep dreamy sleep fell upon the three children and they knew nothing more for a long while.