"Yes, Your Majesty." Nosta nodded, "But please return to the Holy Land quickly; it's too dangerous here."
"I understand," said Hernfurry. "Remember, no one is allowed to destroy this statue, understand?"
Although the Great Druid felt that this abrupt statue severely disrupted the harmony of the Holy Land, he nodded nonetheless, escorting the Queen back to the white forest.
The fish people, caught between the living elves and the dead, quickly fell apart—of course, they never really had the demeanor of an army. Their poison-coated weapons were ineffective against the ghosts, but the elves' arrows could easily pierce their unarmored bodies. When the fish people could no longer endure the pressure of war and chose to scatter, the great trees moved over to block these scaly creatures' retreat. The fish people would eventually pay the price for setting the forest aflame.
But this news didn't reach Lynch and Kuboert. Without a flight scroll, they could only walk slowly back on foot.
