Iris lifted her muddy body, rubbed her face lightly, and looked around. Right now, she was in a cold mud puddle, sunlight streaming through the cracks in the roots surrounding the puddle.
Iris fumbled through the mud and found Alita. She immediately pulled her aside and cast a spell to cleanse their bodies, Alita gasped and almost screamed.
"Where are we?"
In front of them was an oval mud puddle surrounded by white stones. Long roots surrounded the puddle, Iris stood up and pointed at the open root gap.
"Let's go there."
"Are you sure?"
Luckily, Iris used magic to clean their bodies, otherwise, she would now be disgusted with her muddy body.
"That's the only way out." Iris grabbed Alita's hand, and the two of them stepped closer to the root gap, the flat stones arranged to form a ladder going up.
