Jade was heading back to the ruins of her old life. She needed closure. She needed to find what she had been searching for. And if she didn't... well, she didn't know what she would do then. But in her heart of hearts, she felt as if she could not be wrong.
Silently, she slipped through the trees, delicately touching their trunks, feeling the moss sliding between her fingers. It sent a shiver running down her spine, and a soft sigh escaped from her lips. Every tree was one tree closer to what she needed. Eventually, she stood in front of the wall of vegetation, that was the entrance to the ruins. She took a deep breath, at once both frightened and jubilant.
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Aviance was tending to her ribs, which were oddly swollen after the incident in the ruins. She glowered at the bruising, wondering why the regeneration wasn't working as it should have been. Still... she had touched a "cursed" object. Maybe it was a temporary side effect or something. Pushing it to the back of her mind, she turned and said to Alli, "Well, what do you think we should do now?"