"Gods, I had forgotten how bothersome the bugs in this forest were," Alex complained as she swatted away yet another insect trying to leech off of her blood. Luckily for now, there were only some of the smaller critters along the way, but she had already had to face the ones that were the size of her thumb, and the ones that were the size of her hand, and the ones that were even bigger than her, when she had been searching aimlessly. Thinking back, she could manage these tiny ones without complaining any more.
So far, they had advanced much more than she had expected, considering how out of shape she felt the both of them were. But they had the benefit of Aidan's map and the fact that he seemed to know the way as if he'd done this trail a million times. Alex couldn't understand how he cou
