The Forgotten Forest

The two forms of storytelling - the fantasies and the memories - begin to connect when Machi listens to an old woman complaining about to being moved to a nursing home. Meanwhile, a nighttime disturbance deep in the surrounding forest prompts the townsfolk to band together and investigate. In the woods, they find a great light issuing forth, and, nearby, colorful figures jump out of the ground and then disappear back under the forest floor. Shortly thereafter, a storm washes away a field uncovering an ancient buried forest. The relationship between Machi and the elderly woman ends up revealing how old legends are brought back to the surface, much like the buried forest that gets uncovered.