Princess Kay's Realm of Transformation

Charlotte It took a few seconds for Reckt to open her eyes and realize she wasn’t about to be eaten. When she did, her first reaction was to launch herself at me and Mikaela, arms flung out wide. Mikaela looked like she wanted to sidestep, but I grabbed the sleeve of her shirt to hold her in place as Reckt threw her arms around our necks. Mikaela could have pulled free, the cloth obviously wasn’t strong enough to hold out if the both of us put our all into it, but she didn’t so she must have felt at least a little guilty. She just stood there, awkwardly, while I…

Charlotte “Something’s bugging me,” I muttered, sliding closer to Mikaela and putting up an audio-shield to keep our words from reaching Reckt. “You mean the unnatural silence?” Mikaela asked, glancing around. We were walking through the woods, a good distance away from the beaten track, towards the area the guild secretary had directed us towards. In theory, that was where the wolves lived – alongside a bunch of other stuff, like birds and insects and the like, which should have been making noise. They weren’t. That wasn’t what was bugging me, though, so I shook my head. “The spiderwebs, then?” Mikaela guessed, next. “I have noticed an abundance of them……