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Even though the woods were an anomaly among the endless spanning valley of flat green hills and meadows of wheat, it was still bigger than one might think. A bird might see it as tiny but an explorer would have a far different perspective. Cyrill took the lead as suggested and mentioned that the area close by may not have been touched by anyone. At least recently. It was a good day, she couldn't imagine them not running into someone else but it was still possible that the forest would be their own hideaway for the day. They walked along and the sound of a river reached her ears before she even set her eyes upon it. Phaylin remained quiet, following her leader's suit. 

As they began to follow the river upwards, Cyrill was clearly struggling but she knew he had pride and she held her tongue, even though she really wanted to tease him about his lack of physical strength. The day was so nice, that she couldn't disturb it. That wasn't to say that the next time he messed up, she would be as generous with her silence as she had been this time. When he stumbled again, he gave a grumble and she grinned. He began to dust himself as he had vanished the fearsome slope. "I should take you out for walks more often, you clearly need them." She grinned, unable to help herself this time.

His attention then moved to a bloodroot and she rolled her eyes. Since they were stopping for a bit, she went to pick out some other things which could come in handy. Unlike Cyrill, she didn't have anything in mind just yet, so she wasn't being too picky with whatever she harvested. It was always better to be over prepared than not at all. Her parents had a lot of things stored for their work and as she grew up, Phaylin learned to take whatever she could, as the fates could change any minute. "Hm?" She looked up to the boy, as he mentioned the waterfall she had a while ago.

"I'm not sure!" Her face brightened up.

"I've heard this and that about it..." Phaylin intentionally left any rumors or speculation as vague as possible. She wasn't too sure if he'd follow a river based on a rumor. She would, of course. Why not? "I think we should check it out." She told him, not wanting to do anything else now that he had given her the bait. There was no way she would let him get out of it now. She marched forward up the hill, intending on hurrying along. "Come on slow poke!" She called, not liking his pace one bit. Phaylin would have gotten behind him and pushed but she already knew it wouldn't end well for either of them if it came to physical attacks. As they followed the river, she kept her ears alert for any game, it would make a good feast if they were fortunate enough.

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Syn had gotten herself something to eat.

And now their day could carry on. Nax tossed his trash away and went back to observing what they had found. "I don't know." He muttered. "Litter gets picked up if there ever is any." He commented and looked at the shard from both sides. On the back, there seemed to be words but without the whole thing, they were meaningless to him. He could speculate of course, as to what the words meant but it would be a waste of time, he was sure. The shards were probably nothing at all. Syn blurted out that they could be something to do with taking over the world. He snorted and went back to looking at his own reflection as his friend pointed a laser at the object, checking out as anyone would in their position.

Syn then mentioned the laser bounced off but it all went through. That was odd. Really odd. He looked over to see what she was doing. "Hmm..." He took her piece gently, wondering if they could match up. He checked the back of hers, it had writing on the back too. After some trial and error, he could fit them together. "Weird. They're from the same mirror." Did that mean anything? He couldn't make out the words still, even with a bit of help from Syn's shard but he wondered if there were anymore around them. "Be careful." He warned as he looked around, trying to spot any other glint in the sunlight.

Sadly he didn't see anything else which puzzled him even more. Nax moved closer to Syn, the two of them still crouched in the artificial cluster of greenery. As he looked at him and her in the mirror, the background suddenly faded into something else. Their scenery changed. Rather than see their sleek buildings in the sky with digital advances, they were now in some other kind of urban world. Cars weren't in the sky, they were on the ground and buildings were dirty. In the background behind them, people in loose fitted clothing passed along the sidewalk, some people were angry while most were silent in their trudging along.

He took the mirror pieces apart and then put them back together which put him and Syn back in the rather bleak world of dirt and isolation. He had no idea what they had just seen. An optical illusion? A trick surely but whatever for? "That was strange." It kept getting stranger too. Nax handed Syn back her own treasure, not sure what to do with his. He figured he could take it into work and run some tests, see what was going on. "It's clever, I'll give it that much." He smiled a little and got to his feet. He made his way back out to the other side and stretched his arms. His mind no longer lingered on the jerk from earlier, and was now pacing around the weird mirror he had found. There was something different about it, something that affected him somehow.