[Color=DeepPink]"Thank you so much!"[/color] Maya said, giving Coro a friendly wink.

Maya let Sera carry the lantern even though she felt strangely drawn to the bright flame.  Maya realized that she had probably never been this deep in the forest and began wondering what the world beyond was like.

When Sera asked how far they think Talo might have gone, Maya decided to tease Sera a bit and said, [color=DeepPink]"I don't know, Sera.  He seemed pretty upset after you scolded him.  Who knows how far he might have gone in such a desperate state?  For all we know he may have made it through the woods and bolted across the field."[/color]  Of course, the possibility was highly doubtful, it was extremely unlikely that a kid Talo's age, even such an energetic kid, had the endurance to make it that far on a whim.