Once Phellan had left, the night seemed eerily quiet. They looked all over at the fauna of forest then at each other before proceeding to continue their journey, not wanting to be in this 'living' forest a minute longer.
The kids were apparently still sleeping and hadn't woken up by some miraculous force, they made sure they were comfortable before the two climbed onto the driver's bench. Even Loki joined them up there, the small cat sitting proudly between the two to Gabriel's dismay but he decided not to argue with a cat.
Gabriel read the surprisingly detailed map while she pulled on the reigns to make the horse move, pulling the cart along with it as their lantern lighted up the way forward by only a few feet of course.
But they didn't need it for long because as if the forest was reacting to them, some mushrooms and strange plants along the road began to light up with a warm ethereal white. It looked like something straight out of a fairytale, beautiful and somber.
