Again with the ripples. Now that was odd. Now the fog was ahead of them, and the fog behind them was much thicker now. They were making progress at least, but it was certainly puzzling. So far the stones had been rather straight forward, so that was good. Less work for her, but this was starting to become a little tiresome. Still, things were happening so that meant they were making progress of some sort.

[color=8493ca]"Hmm..."[/color] She took a look at the stone. Same cipher - she had practically memorized all the characters by now, so swapping out the letters for the English alphabet was easy enough, but this one was being a little trickier. 

[color=8493ca]"back...forward...back?"[/color] Rachel mused quietly to herself. It could mean a number of things. It seemed the 'Forward' was on the same stone as it was last time, the only new additions being the two new phrases that spelt 'back'. Was the large 'Forward' supposed to be ignored? Perhaps it was giving a series of instructions of 'Back, then forwards, then back'. Of course, that could also be her overthinking it.

Well.

They roughly knew the path now, so long as it didn't change too much, and even a changing system like this (if it indeed, running on some sort of computer code) Could only have so many pattern layouts. Certainly it might be random, but even randomly generated things followed a patter set on based probabilities.

Tsk, if only she could get a look at the code directly then this would be easy. Well, she'd go with option A then.

[color=8493ca]"Hmm."[/color] She turned and started walking back the way they came.

[color=0076a3]"E-eh? Backwards? Really?"[/color] Rachel nodded, but didn't voice her other thoughts. "A-are you sure?..."

[color=8493ca]"No."[/color]

[color=0076a3]"B-buwh?"[/color]

[color=ed1c24]"Hey, hey, don't worry I'm sure it'll be fine."[/color] Kameo grabbed Swimmon under her arm. 

[color=0076a3]"Ugh, I just don't like this place."[/color]

Impmon just rolled his eyes, following after Rachel.