Esther felt like she had gone deep into the innermost part of the forest. It had already been an hour since they left the riverbank. Aside from the noise of insects and the random sounds made by small wild animals, the forest was quiet. She looked around for any place where they could hide but nothing came to her sight. After walking some more distance, she found an old redwood tree which looked bigger compared to the trees of its kind rooted beside it, its size standing out even compared to the other trees nearby.
'This tree seems a little suspicious, but I do not have the leisure to check now.'
Esther kept walking forward. She desperately needed a place to hide the Crown Prince so she could just leave him while she went and deal with whoever was following them.
As the old redwood tree was suspicious, Esther thought of walking around it and hiding the Crown Prince on one of the smaller trees behind it, but all of a sudden—-
Crash!
