Jade Fern Grove how are you so basic?

Fellway may as well have bounced away from Pasha, so happy and eager to go and show him something. For anyone else, that could have possibly set off a red flag — who was that happy to go show off strange things? Strange things falling into the territory of the dying and dead, the stinky, and whatever else probably appealed to a growing atypical boy.

Keeping up with him wasn't really the hard part though. It was the nagging sensation at the back of his mind that said he shouldn't have been going out and doing what he was doing. After the little bear scare and the fact that it had shook them all up worse than a can of soda tied to a jackhammer, one would have deigned it a wiser idea to have not gone alone.

But children were hardly known for their ability to consider any and every possible outcome to a situation. Nor were they known for their ability to even consider those things to begin with. They weren't even five minutes away from the borders before Pasha sighed with discontent — that nagging feeling just wouldn't go away — and had to speak up.

"Hey, how much farther?"