The afternoon sun is close to fading along the horizon, and with the canopy of trees above, it was almost as if it was already night time. The forest was large, shadowy, and misty. It was too difficult to see anything from all these smog but prince Adriel and his knights pressed on in a hurry with their horses, since there is only a few hours before that poison in Serafina's system spread and overwhelm her whole body.
A medley of beastly noises, belonging mostly to birds and vermin, echoed in the air, and added to the sounds of the rustling of the leaves and branches of the tree tops in the wind as well as the hooves of the horses galloping through the twist and turns of gigantic roots of the trees spiraled on the floor. .
From a distance, Adriel picked up the sound of a soothing voice
