>Lost forest where the roots would grow, the children followed the pointed tail.

What happened at the forest? What is the tail in question?

also why has literally nobody else on the internet managed to solve the word puzzle?

>>716076912 (OP)
They found pic related.

The locations in the dark worlds more or less correspond to its surroundings in the light world.
Yet the school for some reason has a "field of hopes and dreams" and a "SCARLET FOREST"