His bare feet stepped over the edge of the cracks almost an inch wide, crossing the red soil and reaching the entrance, which managed to stay moist despite the drought inside. A step later, he emerged from the Inheritance cave, but someone looking from the outside would think he had come out of the Cave of the Water Element.
Mel had forgotten how many days had passed since he'd been released into the woods to go to the Far Circle, but the sun was glaring as if saying, you're starting a new day, wake up. After the dry and dreary air of the cave, even the woodland scorched to ash by the large-scale fire seemed pleasing to his eye, he looked around to orient himself and set off with great strides.
"I used to love the trees here, though!"
