Derrix sighed as he returned from the opposite side of the road, “nothing,” he growled as he started to make his way past the pair of girls who had led the way.

	He turned to both of them, “we should reconvene in the cave and figure out our strategy and general plan to uphold.”

	Without waiting for a response, he rose a hand as if about to salute over his golden gaze, but then a look of hesitation overtook his face and he simply nodded before marching off, his boots slinking in the mud with wet sounds.