Autumn equinox was always a special moment in the forest. It was still full of life, the leafs on the trees were still green. But there was this feeling of death approaching. However, it was not ominous. Nature knew that death was part of the cycle, that it was needed for there to be life. Plants accepted it, animals accepted it, and Aesc had gone there to accept it.
He had stage four brain cancer and apparently few months to live. The doctors had been clear, he wouldn't make it to see the end of the year. He didn't have any family left, and all his friends were far away. He had left his home country seeking adventure, and he would find death. However, Aesc was strangely okay with it. He had assumed his own mortality, the shortness of life, and he had decided to die in the nature.
He settled his camp on the Autumn equinox, with the intention to see nature die slowly. And it did, the leaves turned yellow, and red, and brown, and fell from the trees. As they were failing so was his health. There was a synchrony between the two things. The less lively the forest was, the more feeble he was. Aesc was at peace, he was one with nature, and that was all that mattered. He knew he would die when all the leaves had fallen, and his body would rot into earth to become part of the new life that would start in spring.
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