In the middle of the night, the carriage stopped at a dark place, it was enough for Ashiel to understand that the place was the forest that Howald had brought th1re. It wasn't even creepy for Ashiel's sight because he was used to it - in the way that he lived in that narrow alley from the market. Yet for the others - they can already be seen as shivering from their might, their eyebrows were creasing while the others were already covering their head
For Ashiel - it was only a natural night, sounds of some beast animals roaming around the place couldn't even scare him. What could scare him was the reality of the lady disappearing someday at the duke's residence. That would mean so much for him that he'll eventually become a tyrant - that's why he's doing those things - just to protect her lady
