Chapter 491: The Next Morning
In the morning, Elin was one of the first to wake up. Jonas was awake too, but that’s because he had the last watch. Which, as far as Elin was concerned, that didn’t count.
As she went about starting a fire so someone else could get around to cooking something for breakfast, her eyes fell on the giant earthworm that had essentially killed Owen. In the morning light, it hardly seemed that dangerous. Even the rows of teeth didn’t seem like they were that deadly. Not to mention that she couldn’t help but wonder if maybe it was brought here to this world against its will to be a part of this competition. That the earth worm might have been confused or even scared itself when it had attacked them.
Elin was confident that the real problem was the people running this competition and that they were really the ones responsible for the death of the giant earth worm that likely attacked them because it thought that they were a threat to it. Maybe even the ones who had brought it here.
Elin was at least confident that there wasn’t a reason for it to have been their enemy in the first place. That they should have been able to pass each other by without even knowing they had even gotten that close to each other.
"Penny for your thoughts," a voice asked Elin, startling her out of her thoughts as she finally got the fire going.
Elin looked at the speaker and relaxed when she saw that it was Patricia.
Elin shrugged as she sighed, not really sure how best to explain what she had been thinking of. "Just about the earth worm," she replied, kicking herself mentally at how vague she sounded.
Patricia nodded in response, seeming to have understood more than Elin had expected. "Yeah, that is a good question. How many of the creatures we’ve encountered here were brought by those running this competition and how many were the descendants of those who were brought here," Patricia mused, sounding like she was already a million miles away. "Kind of makes you wonder how much we should be trying to kill rather than avoid in the first place." Patricia paused before her eyes widened in surprise. "Oh, I forgot about that mage. He did bring some other creatures with him, right? Oh, I can’t remember his name, but he was the one who played with our memories, remember?"
Elin nodded, she wasn’t sure she really remembered his actual name, but she didn’t care that much. She would be just as happy to forget about him entirely anyway. Although, she couldn’t help but feel it would be a bit ironic if he was forgotten when he played with the memories of others himself. "I remember him," Elin whispered, hoping Patricia would change the subject quickly.
Patricia either recognized that Elin didn’t want to talk about him or she hadn’t planned on saying much anyway. Either way, Elin was happy when she changed the subject. "So, what do you think we’ll encounter today? More monsters like that earthworm or something else?"