Chapter 425: Moving On
Elmo didn't understand why the shadows hadn't attacked the night before, but he didn't plan on going on about that. Doing so would only give Elwin more fuel to try and keep him tied up. Which he didn't plan on giving him another chance at.
He was grateful for Heather and Elin for starting to untie him first, though he assumed Kim only joined in on it to keep Elin from being too upset with her for having him tied up in the first place.
Not that it mattered, nor did he plan on holding it against Kim. That's just how she was. It wasn't like he expected anything different from her anyway.
Once he was untied, they started out. He wasn't sure how much off course they were, at least from where they had been moving before, but he suspected that if they still hadn't arrived at the library, by the time Kim's sword's ability refreshed that Kim would likely use it again. As such, he wasn't concerned about if they missed it or not. They'd eventually reach it.
As they walked along, nothing seemed out of place. Even Elwin's suspicious glanced thrown his way hardly felt out of place. If anything, the day felt boring to the point it was more tiring than slogging through the bog had been.
When they had lunch, it was on the move, making Elmo wonder if maybe the general unspoken consensus was to try and make up the time they'd lost when they were slowed down by the bog. As he certainly hadn't heard anything about it and no one else moved to take a rest when some dried meat had been passed around.
Although, Elmo had to say that he was getting tired of the dried meat. Not so much that it was bad itself, but rather that was what they'd mostly been eating anyway. He wondered if after they got the book they were looking for, if they'd stop by a town or city on their way back to the starting dungeon and pick up some regular food. Such as grains and the like. He accepted that they were likely running low on those, but he did wish they had something more than just dried meat most of the time. Even when some tried to make a soup or something out of it, it just wasn't the same without much else getting put in it.
Elmo almost fell into a daze as they walked, where he wasn't aware of anything they passed, just merely moving with everyone, regardless of what they passed, but around when Elmo thought that might be starting to happen, Elin came over to talk with him.
She was the first to speak to him since he'd been untied. Even Jonas had kept his distance, but that was typical for Jonas. Even as Elmo wished he'd at least show a little more concern than he had so far.