We stopped right before the gate. I don't know really why. Maybe it was her, or maybe it was me, who froze first.
- Can... Can I go outside? - she asked me.
- Yeah, why not? Just go back when monsters will start coming, or you might die.
She nodded, and we went through the passage. She was looking at everything very carefully. At the tree line of twisted, black, and scary vegetation. On bushes dried out of life. But also at the completely normal grass in the area between the gate and the woods. Even at the blue, cloudless sky, and the sun shining on us.
- Kinda scary, isn't it? - I asked her.
- Yes - she responded, still in this trance of curiosity about the outside world.
The noise of moving bushes signalizing approaching monsters ripped her from it completely.
- Go back - I said.
