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trapped in a Convergence will buy us is about
four days.”
     “Most
of those things aren’t a problem Vaze,” Jake said. “We know how to catch or
steal food, and are used to being hungry, so we won’t complain much.”
    “And
I can navigate by stars,” Seth cut in. Al, Darren and I looked at him in
disbelief. He shrugged and said, “You can learn a lot from books.”
    “Then
what are we waiting for?” Darren asked. “If that guy is going to come after us
again and we have four days of safety from him, we better hurry the hell up,
right?”
    Even
if the words where coming from an idiot, they were true. No one could, or
wanted to argue. Without further ado, we followed Vaze through the forest.
    Then
next few hours we traveled in silence. After a while, the forest opened up into
a lush prairie field. The rain had dissipated by then and the clouds had rolled
away to reveal a deep blue sky along with the warm tingling rays from the sun.
The golden light highlighted the field and made it a breath taking sight.
    A
sea of tall sage grass was dotted with bushes that bore all different colors of
flowers ranging from deep blue to ruby red and warm orange to dazzling purple.
They were all quite small on the bushes but were accentuated by the large
yellow lilies that popped up from time to time.
    Far
across the beautiful field was another forest, but unlike the familiar forest
that hid our home, it had a menacing look to it, dark and foreboding. It looked
like it could swallow us whole. Beyond that were the snow covered caps of an
immense mountain range. With the three spectacles before us, it felt all the
more amazing, and all the more impossible.
    Out
of all of us, I took the longest to recover from the sight, and I had also taken
the most in. It took me a while to notice that Vaze and my brothers were far ahead
of me in the field, and left me scrambling to catch up. I was about to do so,
when something caught my eye. A woman with golden hair was strolling through
the field, humming a tune that seemed oddly familiar to me, though no matter
how hard I tried to put my finger on it, I couldn’t. I looked to my brothers up
ahead to see if they had noticed her. All their eyes were focused on the forest
up ahead and I looked back to the woman, but to my surprise, she was gone.
    I
scanned the area where she had been, looking for some evidence that she really had
been there, but when I found none, I ran to catch up to my brothers. I didn’t
mention the woman to them, and convinced myself I was imagining things.
    While
we walked I started to see more signs of life. Small black bunnies occasionally
scampered in front of me without fear. They looked more curious than anything,
though whenever Al came over to look at them, they fled. It was as if they
didn’t know what to make of me, and wanted to examine me more closely.
Butterflies started flying across the field, and were more flamboyant than any
butterflies I had ever seen in my life. They were big and brightly colored,
just like the flowers.
    My
brothers and I enjoyed the site, but Vaze hardly took notice of them. He was
headed straight for the forest with a stone hard determination. The trip
through the little field was like an oasis in a desert after the horrors I had
gone through in the last day, but it was short lived. Soon the last of the
butterflies pass us and field ended. The ominous forest was upon us. Its trees
were the biggest trees I had ever seen in my life, and made the path leading
into it look like night had suddenly fallen on this one remote forest. Vaze
turned to us as he reached the base of the forest.
    “From
here on out it’s going to get extremely dangerous. I need to know that you will
listen to all my instructions, no matter what. I’ve been here before, and know
what can happen. The Shadows don’t come here, but that’s only because there are
much worse things living in this forest. Will you obey my instructions?” We all
nodded affirmatively. We