Have you ever heard of Shin Rin Yoku?

No.

What is that?

It's a Japanese term that basically means forest bathing.

What, like in an outdoor tub?

No, just bathing in the atmosphere of the forest.

Oh.

It's supposed to help reduce stress and anxiety and increase health in general well-being.

That makes sense.

I feel way less neurotic.

Ever since meeting doctor scientists in the Three Sisters and just spending more time outside observing and interacting with nature.

I hope they come back soon.

What?

I don't even know they were gone.

Where'd they go?

I don't know.

I just found a note from doctor on the table this morning saying the three sisters were departing, and he had to follow them to continue his research.

Oh, yeah.

It's crazy meeting them, like, flipped a switch in my brain or something.

All of a sudden, I'm noticing things that I must have passed by a thousand times before, completely unaware of their existence till now.

Yes.

Same thing's been happening to me lately.

Like I used to walk through the lawn and my brain would just be like.

This is grass.

But now it's like, no.

Lots of this is grass.

But there's also a bunch of legumes like clover and bird's foot trefoil.

And these beautiful wildflowers like speedwell and dandelions.

And I know they must have always been there, but I'm only just really seeing them now for the first time.

I know this must be what doctor meant when he was talking about reconnecting to nature.

Yeah, like at first I thought reconnecting to nature means you have to go to some super crunchy off grid retreat where you drink pond water and everyone makes their own clothes out of a stick or whatever.

But then I realized, no, just go outside.

There's nature you can observe and connect to wherever you are.

It doesn't matter if you're in the middle of the city or the middle of the woods.

Yeah.

What are you looking at over there?

Oh, sorry.

I thought I saw there.

Whoa!

She's.

Oh.

That's strange.

What do you mean?

There's something about her that doesn't seem human.

Oh, maybe she's magical.

What?

Like a fairy.

I don't know.

Maybe.

Where do you hear that?

Yeah.

What is it?

Is that music?

Yeah, I think so.

I feel like it's coming from her.

I want to get closer, but I feel like that's creepy.

I bet we'd learn something cool if we did, though.

Like how creepy it is to sneak up on someone in the woods.

No, I mean about nature.

Oh, yeah, but I still kind of feel like that.

You get closer.

No, wait.

Renee.