Elys rode her horse like she was being chased by the devil himself. Eventually, she reached a portion of the kingdom which was almost unpassable riding her horse. The clear land turned into a dense forest.
"My queen," Aleksander called her out for the nth time, "slow down! You must not jump immediately -"
Even before the vampire king could even finish his sentence, another explosion erupted just a few meters to their left. He whipped his head at exactly the right time that he saw movement into the trees.
Elys stopped in her tracks as she finally deduced it was already impossible to pass riding her horse. She swung her legs out of her saddle, and swiftly jumped off of the horse in mere seconds.
She stood still and listened in to her surroundings, trying to estimate the exact distance with which the explosion took place, and generally just observing her surroundings.
