4
"I hate the forest, hate it, hate it, hate it," I grumbled, kicking a stray leaf. If things kept up like this, we'd really be stuck here for the night and somehow, I had a feeling the woods of Erald wouldn't take kindly to us. No, spending a night in here, was not an option.
"W-We need to break out of the c-circle," JP mumbled, his head sunken down in his shoulders. He seemed to be having a really tough time. I studied the bark of the tree next to me, checking if this was one of the trees we had already marked or not. The small notch at eye-height letting me know that we had.
"Guys... We've been here before. That is the third tree in a row with marks that wound us back in the clearing.
"D-Definitely our mark," JP stated, his hand running over the carvings in a fallen tree. Carvings I
