Chapter 70: Wooden World(6)
It took them quite some time, or at least Cades required quite some time, as it seemed to be the case for Manug that his entire body was repellent against all kinds of filth, though one could not clearly observe that without turning around, and Cades had at least some semblance of decency in the back of his mind, added on to that he constantly listened to every single movement of the archer, he would surely know if he were to attack..
On the other hand the archer had claimed to be able to fly, and there were many other dangers, an astounding list actually, one that Cades went through in his head while he was there, stuck cleansing himself and sweating into the never-ending stream of water in fear, or rather anxiety, that the archer might attack him.
After all, the archer didn't stay with him out of his own free will, or at least Cades thought that he didn't because of all the stress he seemed to constantly be burdened with.
But rather than that there was something grossly wrong with this island, as he looked around, avoiding his backside where the archer was still washing himself, or rather trying to pass time in the water he noticed that something was off, it was not as if something had moved, it was not as if something was added, or as if something was gone, rather than that it felt to him as if something that was already there before had vanished for a short time and reappeared, as if there was something new that he hadn't known before but now had known, though that didn't really make any sense when one thought about it, how could he suddenly know something that he knew he previously didn't know and now knew that he had known it for a long time while actually not knowing it.
Though, it he entirely honest, Cades head began burning in a headache as he was thinking about this interesting theory.
How would one find a change if one knew previously that it was there and didn't know that it was not there, especially if like Cades assumed, the entire forest was under either a illusion or a entrancement spell, probably both..
One could not, perhaps only if one analysed every little thing and thought about it, but no matter how much Cades had tried to do that, nothing changed, everything was still exactly the same, the trees, the endless forest extending in all ways, the beautiful river in which they were currently cleaning themselves.
But then, at some point, Cades wasn't entirely sure when, it hit him, and he began looking to his left, sensing that that's the direction in which something was wrong, he saw an endless expanse of trees, some smaller, less beautiful rivers than the one they were standing on, from time to time there were leaves on the ground, but they barely seemed to fall in this accursed dimension judging that the trees were all green and had probably been as such since they entered this accursed realm, far away there was a mountain-region in the distance, hidden behind what seemed to be a huge tower.