lol this is probably where the story gets shitty.
I'm litterally the only one checking this, rewriting this, and making the plot.
oh kill me
Viola walks around before waiting for us. "I don't see an exit." She whispers, avoiding eye contact. She then walks over to the window and looks out. She walks back over to us. "We're on the middle floor, so we just have to follow some of the soldiers to get outside…" Viola says as quietly as she can. We hurry over towards a soldier with a sword. We follow him towards as quietly as possible and get to a large room. The walls up around 30 feet, spiral stair cases in the way front with large doors. A chandelier in the middle of the top of the staircase. A large carpet with the symbol in the middle. Glass windows in the front of the door leading to the exit.
Anise softly chants yes before hurrying outside with us. We immediately go to where the soldiers are heading, a thick forest with even thicker bushes and leaves. The boy behind us point to the opposite end of where most of the soldiers are heading we hurry over there before anything look suspicious. We run right through it for around 4 minutes before stopping for a walk.
"I can't believe it." Florian pants, looking around in case there is anyone nearby. "Well, everything bad has to happen when you don't want it to happen, I was seriously having fun and getting to relax from all of the work I do but we had to do all of this." Anise doesn't get in detail in case someone is ease dropping.
We end up spending the night out in the forest. Anise and I gathered wood while Florian fed the boy some rice balls he made. Viola was waiting for us to get the wood so she could make the fire. We all just sat around the fire, ever since we walked out of the building we felt like we were being watched. Everyone in the group felt it too. We all then whispered a promise that we'd go to sleep when we make it out.
"Let's go searching for them." Anise says uncomfortably. She shakes dirt off of the military uniform. We rush around the forest, we couldn't tell if we were going in circles because it was so deep and rigid. Viola says we might be going to the end of the forest the boy is on her shoulder, sleeping quietly. We see the end of the forest and run straight towards it. It felt like freedom, it felt amazing when we no longer felt those eyes watching us.
"Let's run!" I yell out, everyone gladly agrees, no one wants to go back over there. We ran until we saw something in the distance. "It's a village!" Florian yells out while stumbling a little. We ran even faster right to it. It was . "Oh thank god it's somewhere I can trust I can be safe!" Anise huffs out.
"I really needed that exercise." Florian collapses on his knees, huffing and puffing. I walk up to him and bend over. "Florian, are you okay?"
"Y-yeah, I've never ran s-so much before." Florian laughs. Anise and Viola walk up to him. "Florian, it's not funny! We're going to be worried if you collapse on your knees randomly like that!" Anise yells while putting her hands on her hips.
Viola closes her eyes and stands still for a few seconds before walking towards St. Binah. "It's around 10 pm. We could still get rest if you want." Viola looks back at us bickering.
We rush over to her side as we make it over to the inn. The man at the counter getting ready to go to sleep and then sees us and just snickers. "You guys look tired. That'll be 30 gald." Viola gladly gives him the gald and rushes to our room. We all fall into the beds.
Viola places the boy in the bed before collapsing on one next to him.
"Good night everyone 3" Anise says happily. Everyone says goodnight except the little boy and we all go to sleep.
Everyone wakes up early in the morning and get breakfast. We all sat at the same table, the little boy was already there before anyone else was, I guess he's a morning kind of person. Viola had a cup of coffee in her hands as she lazily stirred it with a spoon.
"I haven't had such a good night's sleep in years." Anise says while stuffing her face with coffee cake.
"Not the longest nap I've had in years." I say while stretching in my chair. Everyone couldn't help but let out a chuckle.
"Hey Viola…" Florian says while getting a cup of juice.
"What's up green bean?" Viola yawns before sipping from her cup.
"How do you tell time like that?" Florian says while sitting at the table. Viola just sighs lazily and takes another bite out of her food.
"I'm a mountain climber. More importantly, one who has parents in Keterberg who have been mountain climbers and have it in their blood." She says proudly.
"If you want to climb , you need to know how to tell time. Avalanches have proven to be more common to happen in the daytime." She continues and points at her coat
"This coat is a traditional coat for mountain climbers. The higher up, the colder it gets and this is specially made to conserve heat. That's why I have it around my waist all of the time, in case we go somewhere cold I'll at least be warm." She laughs when she sees Anise practically drool over it.
"You all can try it on, if you want." Anise raises her hand as Viola tosses it to her. Anise tosses it on and snuggles into it. "It's so warm! I feel like I'm in !" Anise says.
Viola perks up. "Oh, I've never been there!"
Anise lowers her head and shakes it. "You probably wouldn't want to, it's a volcano." Viola flinches.
"I can already feel the heat…" She says sadly.
"Me too…" Anise mimics her. She tosses the coat to Florian and he immediately tries it on. "What's this made from, Viola?" He rubs his hand against the feathers.
"It's made out of the monsters my parents fought on the mountains, they'd take the feathers and skins and made coats." Florian takes it off and gives it to me. I try it on and instantly melt in it.
"W-woah! It's so warm!" I say as I move around in it. Anise stops and thinks. "It wasn't that warm when I tried it on, so it really conserves body heat?!" Viola laughs and nods her head. I take it off as I start to get a little too hot and hand it to the boy. He gets up and tries it on. It's too big on him but looks okay.
"I didn't think he'd try it on!" Florian gasps at the sight.
We give the coat back to Viola and she ties it around her neck again. "Now where should we go?" She asks us.
Anise stops and thinks, "Maybe we should go back to Grand Chokmah. To see your mother and everyone else. If they're still there."
"Sounds good." Florian says while stuffing the rest of the coffee cake into a bag.
And so we start yet another trip.
I wonder how Liger is doing…