After we both agreed to keep moving, I felt the ground shake, I sensed the monster, and it has finally gotten inside the cave, but it was still far away since we were deep inside the cave. I crouched next to Xia Xue offering my back once more.
"Get on... We don't have much time"
She nodded and got on, her body pressed against mine as she put her arms around my neck. I resisted the embarrassment and managed to stop at a small blush. And slowly started walking along the stream following it.
After walking for over 20 minutes, we finally saw light. As I ran to it, holding Xia Xue tightly on my back, we saw where the light was coming from. It wasn't outside. Our eyes widened at the sight, there were monsters, but they didn't seem hostile. The birds flying over looked like phoenixs, under them were a beautiful forest filled with beauty. Everything seem to be prospering, in the middle of the forest there was a big river, the water was clear and it ended with a big water fall. On the side of the river, there were beasts, they were similar to a horse, but they had wings. And in the far, deeper inside the forest, there were mysterious sounds, we didn't know if it was danger that was lurking in there or some other beasts who weren't hostile. And As I looked up, there was a small crack, that was the thing giving this place light. The crack was so far above, no one could reach it unless they could fly. I slowly looked under us, then realising we were on a cliff.
Xue asked "what now?"
I stood there quietly still thinking of what to do.
Hm... If I could tame one of those horses... We could probably get out of here... But how will I do that? ... Well, we should probably go down there first... And let fate decide the next move...
I turned my head slightly to talk with Xia Xue.
"We will go down first, we can't turn back since that other monster is inside.. and the beast down there doesn't seem to be ferocious.. so we should be good until we don't provoke any... Okay?"
She nodded.
I slowly looked down then tried to find a path to go down the cliff, I walked down slowly and carefully. The path was very narrow and steep.
After we went down, we stopped at the side of the river, a bit far away from the beasts but keeping an eye on them. I laid Xia Xue down helping her sit up. We both drank a bit water from the river and rested.
"Do you think you can walk now?"
I waited until she responded.
"Yes. I think I can now... But slowly... I'm sorry, I'm making everything hard.. it's my fault we ended up like this in the first place..."