The Wanderer: Mystery Of The Young Master

chapter 4

"What did you say?"

"The energy here is different... it's like a whole different world from the one have seen and passed by, as that of the once I lived in... everything here is different from the one am use too, from the harmony of the air down to the sight before me... I might even get intoxicated by it" he continued, standing as he relayed to her his thought of the forest, not hearing her exact words.

She felt surprised by his words, knowing what most think when it comes to the issues of the forest, was death and loss. The myth of the forest was built around that, due to the fact that most people that had entered the forest don't tend to return, and certain witness who watch them entered, stated seeing the forest animals devoured them, although most were fugitives or invaders, and no one really knows how the forest works, or why the animals attack most that enters.

Like most The forest was still a mystery to her, she doesn't even remember how she got into the forest for the first time, nor does she know why the animals tend to play with her, she mostly return to the forest because she had a certain level of attachment too it, since she has been coming in and out of the forest for as long as she can remember.

Even when she knows the animals there were not normal, due to their body structure and power, she still comes to play with them, she has been doing it for so long, the abnormalities she once saw had become normal for her, and most consider her weird, due to that. But she could never really put her thoughts, or feelings towards the forest into words, she only knows whenever she enters the forest, there was this suiting energy that uplift her. Making the forest different to her and considered to be her heaven, a feeling she can't find elsewhere.

However his words expressed it, so, vividly and simplified her feelings, as that of her thoughts of the forest, which made her wondered, if maybe, that was why the animals displayed no sign of hostility, or concern towards him, due to his heart.

"Although, I know it's not much of a reason and might sound a bit crazy, but that's my reason"

"It's a bit crazy... But it's also unique" she said placing her hands backward, holding one with the other, after hearing his answer as she stood.

"I guess am not the only one" she thought in relief.

"Anyway we should get going... if we don't plan on getting to the kingdom by night fall"

"Hmm... Yes, that's true... but is the exit that far?"

"Just a bit" she replied as they walked, concluding their talk.

They continued walking, heading toward the exit the lady mentioned, as she led the way, while the four middle age men they escaped from, were getting tired of waiting and frustrated of the current result of their patient. Few minutes passed, when one of the middle age men notify their boss that it was getting late, and the guards of the Radiant kingdom would soon start their scheduled patrol around the border. If they don't leave soon, it would be a problem for them, while narrating that waiting might not be the best option right now.

After hearing that, the boss told his men to prepare to leave. Weighing how big an issue it would be, if the guards caught them at their current post. He concluded leaving to be the best choice for them. Believing, doing otherwise would only leave them exposed, and probably jeopardize their mission, making their target aware of their movement, while thinking that if they can't catch the target today, there was always next time, since the information given was the problem, not them and this was a chance to complain about the information given by their employer.

Few minutes had passed, since the wanderer and the lady had made their way toward, the entry of the secret path; the exit of the forest around the west part of it. At the entrance of the path, laid a cave. Marking the exit from the forest, which an oak tree with wide spread branches concealed the entry point. The wanderer was stunned by the view. He gazed admiring the pattern and style at which the branches was form and shaped around the cave.