After saying her name to Alice, Sarah approached the young Lightbringer, inspecting her body whith a somber face.
Alice looked... awful. She spend weeks without eating, her clothes were the same she was wearing on Earth, and that was without talking about her wounds: the one on her arm caused by her white-haired reflection back on the Forest of Glass, the one caused by the first Two Mouths she encountered, and the ones caused by the two-headed tiger (those were light and already healing thanks to Isa's curse, but still.)
Oh, And there was aslo the fresh blood of Shapeshifter all over her skin and clothes.
Because of these things, Sarah probably thought Alice was on the brink of death. Which was wrong, since the young Lightbringer was cursed in a way that made her, according to Shapeshifter, almost immortal. Or at least hard to kill.
After looking at her body with empathy, which may or may not be fake, Sarah said a few words that Alice did not understand, before inspecting the two-headed tiger's body.
She verified it was really dead, before trying to lift it, perhaps to bring it somewhere. Sadly, the two-headed tiger weight was more than that of three grown men, and Sarah's own strenght was not great enough.
The woman let out a frustrated sigh, before finally giving up.
She then walked towards Alice, said a bunch of other things, and then walked away.
Alice thought that Sarah had just abandonned her here, but her savior came back a few seconds later.
It seemed as if she wanted Alice to follow her.
Alice had trust issue with most people, but this time, she did not really see a reason why she wouldn't follow Sarah. Even if she had ill intent towards her, it was better to comply, since she had a bow and seemed like she knew how to use it.
A bow... it would be nice to have one. Especially if it was a deadly one like the one Sarah used.
Especially if it was the one Sarah used.
While following her savior in the jungle, paying intention to her every moves, Alice heard Killer's voice:
"I can't believe it."
"Can't believe what ?"
"You're actually thinking about killing her. She saved you, and you think about ending her life."
Alice barely reacted.
"Killer, you should stop responding to intrusive thoughts like those. Every human being that's like, ten or older, thought about killing someone at one point in their live. Yet, very few of those people are evil enough do it. That's just how the human brain work."
"You're one of the people evil enough to do it, though."
Alice shake her head.
"Will did it, not me. And let's be real here, that woman deserved it, so it's not the same thing."
"Murder is murder, and asking someone to do it is as bad as doing it yourself."
Alice became tired by Killer's antics.
"Shut up, or I kill you."
Killer hesitated, probably because she knew Alice couldn't really kill herself since she was cursed, but chose the safe option in the end.
Alice looked at the woman she was following with a stange expression, holding her dagger. Sarah moved in the jungle with ease, skillfully avoiding any kind of danger. Where was that woman leading her to ?
Sarah suddenly stopped and put her right hand on Alice's mouth. Alice tried to free herself at first, thinking the woman had malicious intents, until she saw it.
Far from the two girls, but not that far since they saw it, was a being similar to the two-headed tiger who attacked Alice.
Similar, but different.
Much more terrifying.
The "tiger" was much bigger than the one killed by Sarah, and according to his size, his weight was probably around ten times the one of a grown human man. The predator had six legs instead of four, each of them equiped with claws longer than a man's arm. Instead of two head, this tiger had three of them.
One of these three head looked towards Sarah and Alice, but thankfully, the abomination either failed to detect them or chose to not attack.
Alice wondered for a moment what would have happened if her and Sarah weren't that lucky, but the answer wasn't really a happy one.
Alice really doubted Sarah's strenght. Alice couldn't really put it into words but... she was pretty sure that woman wasn't a soul seller. She just didn't gave the same vibe that Mirror did in the past.
Sure, she was skilled with a bow, but Alice doubted that any kind of normal human could defeat the three-headed tiger. Just looking at his size and nothing else, he could probably deafeat several of the two-headed ones with ease.
The three-headed beast got out of sight quickly, and Sarah resumed her walk.
For a fairly long time, while following Sarah, Alice observed the jungle around her.
She only got into this Room less than an hour ago, but she already knew a lot about it: there were other lifeforms here, and some were humans ; the Room was at least as big as the Forest of Glass, probably way bigger; and finally, this Room was dangerous.
And beautiful.
Alice had to admit: the strange jungle she found herself in was one of the most breathtaking thing she ever saw. Most of Alice's life back on Earth was spend beetween four walls with her mother, but still. This jungle was straight up otherwordly.
Alice grimaced while thinking about her house. It was a small, dirty, messy house. If it was possible, Alice was ready to go back to Earth, since the Sky was way too dangerous, but never would she return to this house full of bad memories.
And then, after what could be considered a long time, Sarah and Alice arrived.
Alice was bewildered by what she saw.
Here in the jungle, a bunch of rudimentary housing was there, and so were a bunch of people, men, women, children... humans. From the size of the whole thing, Alice deduced that there was at the very least two hundred persons living here, and that was more people than she saw in the Sky until now.
Following Sarah seemed to have been the good choice.
Alice found a village.
She found people.