Rika folded her arms across her chest in irritation. The elf girl, Nova, had taken issue with what she'd said. What, did she want to go off and be an idiot and eat some poison mushroom that would get her killed? Rika contemplated downgrading her status from 'someone who doesn't want to be an idiot' to 'total moron', but decided to retort in a different manner from that.

"Yes, because I just had [i]so many other options[/i]," she replied, her voice dripping with sarcasm as her blue eyes narrowed at the other girl. "Because when you wake up alone and suddenly have a snake tail instead of legs from the thighs down, you're clearly in a position to be choosy and ignore the only people who might be able to help you."

Turning away from Nova with a huff, Rika's attention turned to the strange red line. Well, that was... ominous, to say the least. It seemed like a pretty resoundingly awful idea to attempt to cross something like that until they knew what it was. It certainly didn't seem to be natural as far as Rika would tell, and she didn't like it one bit.

"Going over that red line towards the creepy whispering in the forest is frankly one of the worst ideas I've heard all day. And besides, it would probably provide cover, but it'd e pretty easy to sneak up on us through all those trees."

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