Chapter 362: Avoiding Douglas
A loud, undefined yet familiar noise woke Elin up. She hadn't realized that she'd fallen asleep, but that wasn't the important part for her right then.
She looked in he distance that she was pretty sure the sound had come from and saw a pillar of flames rising above the trees in the distance. At first Elin felt like she needed to run, but before she did, she realized something: the flames didn't seem to be spreading, which she hoped meant that it wasn't going to head in her direction, even with her being by a small river..
As she felt her heart calm down, Elin couldn't help but wonder if maybe that familiar sound had been from the flames. She wasn't sure how she knew, but that's what she felt. Though, as she glanced at Jonas' body, that was still unconscious, she wondered if maybe that feeling had to do with her missing memories.
While she would like to examine the crystal pendant again, she couldn't help but feel more drawn to what was happening around that pillar of flames. She took two steps towards it when a voice came to her nearby, on the other side of the hill that she had been about to walk up.
"All that effort for nothing," the voice spat, a voice that sounded distinctly masculine. Elin wasn't sure why, but it felt familiar. Which could mean that it was someone from her missing memories. "Maybe if drawing those stupid orcs didn't take so long she wouldn't have escaped!"
Elin had a feeling the voice was referring to her, even though she felt like it could still be referring to just about anyone.
"I can't even tell if she did draw her out either. If it did, then maybe that would explain the ease with which she escaped, but that doesn't explain who else might have gotten in here. Someone who shouldn't have been able to, but did anyway."
Elin wanted to respond, to call out and find out what the voice was talking about. Not to mention answers for the questions that were popping into her head the more the voice spoke.
With how the voice was sounding, Elin had to assume that this was Douglas. Someone she really didn't care to encounter. Or at least not alone with someone who was under the weather, though Elin couldn't figure out how she knew that Jonas just had a small illness that would go away on its own without her needing to do anything.