The Daring Tale of Tobias the Tree-Man

Hi! I came across this picture the other day and I quite enjoy it. So I have decided to conduct a writing of a story to go along with this glorious painting...

Once upon a time in a world far distant from this one, there is a place where the trees quite often enjoy taking the form of humans just for kicks and giggles, ya know? These mischievous trees like to partake in many things, they play board games, they hold dinner parties and book clubs, some less than mature trees sometimes play games of tag, or if they feel so daring, freeze tag. But one thing the trees never ever do, and to be completely honest, is quite frowned upon in the tree community is accidentally, or on purpose, fall in love with one of those dastardly humans. They go out with them plenty, but that is just for their own amusement, none ever so as dare gain a liking to one. In fact, it was a game among the trees to go out with a human and see just how rude you could be without them pointing it out, or telling you so. "Those damn humans hate confrontation." Zacharias Treewood, president of the human trickery club, would always say. But the tale of the evils of the tree people is not the tale I'm telling. Well, actually it starts off that way. So one day in the hustle and bustle of Tree City (The Trees lived in a metropolis. Weird, I know) a young Tree-man by the name of Tobias Leafgood was getting bored with his daily monotonous routine of making sure his branches were not getting too long and so forth, so he decided that he might go on a date with one of those ditzy humans, just to have a little mischievous fun. So he conjured up a date in no-time. (Because in all fairness, he was a dashing Tree-man) and they made plans to have dinner at his favorite restaurant. He picked up the poor unwitting girl at around 6 and they headed to dinner. Once the meal begin, Tobias was revving up all the rudeness he could muster but before he had a chance to unleash it, his lovely date unleashed a storm of her own. A storm of charm, humor, and intelligence that entranced Tobias in a whirlwind of attraction and, even though he wouldn't admit it to himself at the time, love. He immediately swept the woman into his branches, let's say her name is Jennifer and whisked her away to find a place where their love would not be judged. But before the 2 inter-species lovers could reach this isolation they were being swiftly chased by a group of Tree people who were out to ruin their newfound, forbidden love. Jennifer told Tobias that she would keep running and searching and eventually find their paradise and told him that she shall wait for him to ward off the evils of his people and eventually reunite with her. (And now this is the part that the painting portrays) Tobias held Jennifer close to him and told her that he shall make his people understand their love and then he shall come and find her and they shall live together in true love forevermore. And in that moment, they both uttered the 3 promising words "I love you."

Now that was fun, huh? I sure think so!