Haunted Wood follow alice

Last post from me! One more from @Allure to finish, and then we all have 3 (I think)?

The forest obliged, and swallowed them whole.

They disappeared into the dark, where the forest grew so dense that Bazi was almost as blind as her son. It was Allure that eventually found the tangle that would become their hiding place, forging a path through the mess of foliage. Bazi followed, widening the tunnel her daughter had created so that she too could pass through it.

They ended up in a little bubble of space, padded with moss and surrounded by a natural wall of wood. From the look of the place, it was watertight - Bazi could scarcely see the sky above them. She had to stop herself from asking the question out loud, remembering just in time that Swift would not be able to answer. The word escaped in the form of a single, displaced vowel and ended in a hiss.

Bazi slumped to the ground next to Swift, and reached her nose out for her daughter. Her mind was racing, searching for wires to connect in pursuit of a plan - but it was no use. She was too tired; they all were. First and foremost, they needed to sleep.