I watched our newcomer from some distance - if my nearsightedness wasn't deceiving me it was a dwarf. The way he glanced at Wolfy and then back at his strange stick he was holding, alarmed me.
Natural enmity between both races?
I whistled for my pet and gladly noticed, this time he had chosen to obey. When Wolfy reached me I bent over, patted him fondly and whispered in his ear:
"Hey, what about that shortlegger, do you like him?"
A short yelp.
"Keep away from him, not all notice your beauty, Little One... I'm sure, a bath with lavender and a pink bow would improve your appearance, hm?"
Wolfy backed off, shook his shaggy fur violently and showed his large fangs.
"You know what? Let the others sort out that invisible wall, we'll find a shortcut of our own. Come on, boy..."
I turned around and started to move sideways, parallel to the invisible frontier on the lookout for a gap or something, moving my hands over it and finally leaving that discussion club behind me.
"Ah, silence again, Wolf - just you and me, wonderful... Come on, boy..."
Suddenly I saw a large black crow eyeing me, behaving strangely. I stopped and looked back, with a [color:"orange"]Crawcrawcraw[/color] he flew up only to land a bit further, eyeing me again.
Does he want me to follow him?
I was curious, besides his beedy yellow eyes did seem to hypnotise me, so I followed and followed... Losing track of the barrier, my group and walking deeper into the forest. Silence grew around us, the trees seemed to get larger, it was darker than before, a deep dark green. After some time I couldn't see the crow anymore, its black feathers seemed to melt with the shadows and I stopped.
"Wow, that's great, I'm lost, Wolfy... the group will probably kill me. Do you know the way back?"
Wolfy sat down on his haunches, lolling his tongues and his message was clear: Girl, you got us into that, now look for a way out yourself.
Hmpf, I shrugged my shoulders and peered sharply in the shadows. Remembering my herbs, I dug for them in the satchel and took a great bite - after a short moment of dizzyness the shadows seemed lighter and I could make out that bird as a red schemen.
"Ahhhhhh, there you are, thought you could fool me, right?" I walked up to it and with a last loud [color:"orange"]Craw [/color] it rose and flew away.
Great... nice mess, Miss Curious!... Shut up, Freud!
Walking up to the tree stump the crow had sat upon, I noticed a hollow and peered into it, using my minor rune of light - or flame to be correct.
"Interesting, Wolfy, very interesting, care to join me?"
Without waiting for his approval I got down on hands and knees to crawl in. Dry leaves rustled.... little creatures seemed to scuttle away, I continued to crawl further, hearing Wolfy pant behind me. The way lead down and after some time I could hear a sort of tinkling sound - an underground brook? I concentrated on it and moved into its direction. After endless hours - so it seemed, because my knees were smarting already and my hands were bruised by sharp stones, I finally reached the source of the sound:....
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