Chapter 384: What Happened to Jonas
Elin opened her eyes, surprised to see the sun starting to rise above the mountains. She'd slipped into the hot spring to take a bath and apparently had fallen asleep.
Not that she couldn't understand why. Even now it was nice and comfortable. Though, she wasn't sure if it was good to have fallen asleep there.
Yet, it wasn't like she could change what had happened. So, she merely got out of the water, feeling refreshed with the icy touch of the open air. Even though it wasn't that cold of a morning, going from the temperature of the hot springs certainly felt like it was freezing. Only for Elin, she found it invigorating and set about drying her body off before getting dressed again.
The only problem was the fact that she only had the dress she'd been wearing for a few days and it wasn't washed, which meant it felt even more unpleasant with putting it on her freshly bathed body.
Although, as she started to reach behind her to fasten the buttons to secure the back, she considered if she should think of this as a problem as well. It was easy to take it off by herself, as the buttons seemed to pop out on their own when she wanted them to, but fastening them was another matter. She had to hold the button hole steady while she popped the button through it.
With reaching behind her, it felt like it was almost back breaking work. Although, when she finally managed to get most of them, leaving maybe a few in the middle where it was the most painful to reach, she considered it good enough and gathered what little she'd brought with her, and the soap that Elysia had offered, before starting to head back to where she'd left Jonas.
She was confident that she'd been gone too long, even if it had maybe been a couple hours. As she knew that he wasn't truly confident about how safe they were in this location and she had to agree. Such as even without considering Douglas, she worried the roc would come back and go after them. She wasn't sure if it held a grudge against them, but she didn't want to find out the hard way if the roc decided to attack again.
While she had walked a ways to get to the hot spring, she was surprised at how quickly she'd returned to the campsite. She would have thought that it would have taken her longer, even with most of the trip going downhill.
Yet, when she arrived, she noticed that Jonas wasn't anywhere to be seen. She couldn't think of why he'd have left, but she wasn't too worried. She was confident that whatever the reason, it was a good one and that there wasn't any need to worry about him.