"An adventure without friends is the boringest thing in the world!" Ashius said, yawning, as he walked deeper into the forest behind his village, all by himself.
It wasn't his first time walking past the warning sign, nailed on the trunk of the biggest clawroot tree on Razyan, at the entrance of the forest.
Strolling deep into the mossy woodland and calling it "an adventure to explore the mysterious forest" was his favorite thing to do, ever since he had been seven, four years ago. But most of the time, his friends would tag along.
Drew and Hugh rejected this adventure, as according to them, the last one didn't go quite well. They obviously couldn't tell their parents about the ambush of the wild cats that happened that day, or else they wouldn't ever be allowed to go anywhere near the woods…and maybe even Ashius.
