Once Ves enacted his plan and crudely fashioned a bit more rope, he began to summon up the courage to climb one of the trees. Although they looked like earth-species trees, they still looked taller than any tree on Cloudy Curtain!
Climbing them took a lot of nerve!
Still, if he wanted to find some hope of getting out of this seemingly endless forest, he needed a better view of his surroundings.
"Here goes nothing."
With his body weighed down by several coils of makeshift rope, he began the arduous task of climbing up the most hopeful-looking tree.
It took a long time as he was trying to be careful. He hadn't exactly done anything like this before, but for the most part Ves didn't feel a lot of peril, especially since he stopped looking down.
The riskiest portion came when he needed to overcome the three gaps. Each time, he uncoiled a rope and clumsily tried to throw them around a sturdy branch above.
