The forest was bigger than I thought. I believe that the entire area beneath the cliff we'd fallen from was an extensive forest stretching for leagues.
Okay, I may have exaggerated a bit, but we had been walking for so long, and still, there wasn't any indication that the forest would end.
We didn't go back to search the area around the first cave for the cliff, cautious to avoid encountering the enemy in case they were still there. Instead, we followed the stream uphill and kept close to it since it was the only source of water we knew of.
Upon reaching the top of the hill around midafternoon, we searched for a vantage point to survey the area. But it wasn't high enough to see past the surrounding hills, which were all covered in the same boreal trees and shrubbery.
