>>5791320It might just be that simple: we are changing. We have new friends, new ambitions, a new love interest. This forest is kinda like a mental landscape so as we change, it changes, to say nothing of us now being aware of Her, It, and this place's very existence.
OOC, Elliot now has like a dozen voices in his head giving him new ideas, directing him how to use his time, ect. But that might be a little too meta.