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Jayce shuddered “I don’t like these options”

“Maybe you should scout ahead,” I suggested “With that super speed of yours, you’re the best for the job”

“Uston pointed out

“I can melt into the shadows,” Kai added “Stealth can be more important than speed, you know”

I nodded, narrowing o Xero and I will follow behind Kingston, keep track of the other two fro lost in there”

Each of them shifted into their demonic forms and disappeared in a flash Xero and I walked close to one another, our shoulders brushing and our senses at full alert The trees had looked closer than they actually were When we finally reached them, I sahy; they must have been a hundred feet tall, all twisted and full of tangled branches

“Those trees aren’t alive, are they? I mean, obviously they’re alive, they’re plants, but—” I looked doubtfully at a branch which looked suspiciously like grasping claws “They aren’t going to suddenly wake up and start attacking, are they?”

“No,” Xero said without even a shadow of a s as your head, run They’re carnivorous and somewhat mobile”

“Fantastic”

He squeezed my hand “I’m pretty sure we’re too far north for those But—just keep your eyes open”

Yeah, that won’t be a problem

I couldn’t iain Between the fight outside the castle and e’d encountered so far in the landscape of the underworld, I was set on night time

Xero and I skirted the woods, sticking to the no man’s land between the forest and the swah for us to walk side by side, but after a while ere forced to go single-file Xero keptan eye onthe leader, but I wasn’t co It wasn’t like I had fireballs to protect myself with

“We’re out of land,” I said after alked for a while in silence, stopping short suddenly The woods had reached the swa on was replaced by a black tangle of slick, wet roots They lay horizontally enough that we ht be able to cross them, but I didn’t like how slippery they looked One false move and ould be fish food

No fucking thanks