"Well, it went like this"
" I'm waiting!" Zephyr said snapping me from my thoughts, I was reliving that moment in my mind just then, the fear he subjected us to wasn't little as my heartbeat increased irregularly and sweat started to drip off my face.
" Stay calm boss," Someone said behind me, I turned as I was surprised. I didn't expect it, Germaine actually showed that he cared. He put on a smile and that made me feel better instantly.
"Yes! As I was saying" I proceeded to narrate the actions that occurred leading to our arrival here.
" Scary! You were bullied by a magic caster!"
" Nah, it was more like he wanted to feed on us," I said and chuckled a bit later leading to a burst of loud laughter.
"HAHAHA HAHA" My eyes were a bit teary now.
Zephyr couldn't understand some of my points and even after checking through our minds, the best she could come up with was that we were a party of thieves that met their Waterloo, and yet she didn't falter. "Does she trust us that much, we are just a bunch of strangers she met a few minutes ago".
"She must have picked that up if her spell is still active, is that why she isn't skeptical about us, we are like open lids after all," I thought.
Seeing that I was silent over my thoughts, Germaine spoke up or rather he thought up, I could tell this since he faced Zephyr and basically gave off a face that said ' I'm talking to you"
" You can relay information to all of us minds directly right? You've done it for a while now" Germaine asked.
" What's the matter, young man?"
" Is your spell always active, even if you are engaging with other things or if we had no intentions of sharing our thoughts?"
"Yes," Zephyr replied with an indifferent facial expression. Germaine felt a bit afraid now, we all were. The power to look freely into us uninvited.
" Don't you think that's rude?" he continued
" I don't think so, I wouldn't have allowed you to wander freely if I had no ideas on your intentions"
" it's okay, I'm here because my king sent for you all, he sensed your presence and urged me to bring you all. I'm sure he doesn't intend to hurt you, I don't wish to see you hurt as well"
" I see'' Germaine said and stepped back a little.
" Let's get back to the land, Shall we?" Immediately, she stirred the gusts of wind around our feet and took us to the bank.
" It would be faster if you just moved us with your magic," Germaine said. Logically, this was the way to go, we wouldn't want to keep the king waiting after all.
" No No! of course, I knew that," Zephyr said and laughed a bit.
" My king instructed me to make you feel welcomed and relaxed before I send you all to him and what better way to achieve that than showing off the North Wind Forest in all of its glory!"
" I see" Germaine replied.
"I guess it makes sense and it's actually working, we felt insecure at first but now it's different, I feel a lot better now. I still don't fully trust Zephyr but I know she isn't a bad person" I thought.
" Let's continue to move forward!" Zephyr said excitedly and pointed forward slowly flapping her magnificent shiny wings with cool visible light wind forming with each flap.
" I wonder how the fairy king will look like" as I thought of this, I pictured a baby-sized fairy with wings, a wrinkled face, huge wings, and a scary outlook. Immediately, I felt a bit unpleasant and shook my head clearing away those thoughts.
" My king isn't as scary as you think," Zephyr said. Every mention of her king seems to stir her up as her blush had gotten brighter corresponding with her cute smile.
" I see" I replied feeling relieved.
We continued to slowly walk forward observing a minuscule bit of this new World.
" This is much better than dying," I thought, even if I hadn't experienced death, I knew it was unpleasant, everyone knew that. Many believe that there's an afterlife after death however that's quite different from what I think, death is just a punishment for us living creatures, we are made to slowly witness our powerlessness and uselessness as we slowly get entrapped in a void of eternal darkness, It is simply the end. I clung to this belief and surprisingly it has helped me from an exceedingly dangerous situation probably even now, we had just escaped death and in a place where many will call paradise.
" This isn't bad," I thought.
We are currently in a highly dense area as plants were in our way.
" Miss Zephyr please do something about this," I said as I was now entangled in vines. She giggled a bit and after speaking some words, the plants cleared out of the way. We could move freely now when rustling sounds were suddenly made.
" Was someone observing us?" I thought.
" Look!'' Sasha said and pointed to a tall bush a few feet from us.
" A face!" Germaine yelled as he caught a glance of a person's face but just as he did, the figure appeared to have turned around and made a run for it.
" Shouldn't you look into that?" I said to Zephyr who acted like it was nothing unusual.
" That was a human, aren't you interested in checking how he got here?" I said I was starting to feel suspicious now as I didn't expect other humans aside from us.
" I don't know about that" She responded.
" What do you mean?"
" We are close"