[center][img]https://i.imgur.com/RQaJfun.png[/img][h1][b][color=B22222]C L A R A[/color][/b][/h1][hr][b][color=gray]IFRISE FOREST — SOVEREIGNTY OF DRYADALIS[/color][/b][/center][hr]
[b]"[color=B22222]Why don't you roast that krovar corpse with your sun powers or something? Bet there's plenty to go around![/color]"[/b] Clara teased, too exhausted to throw complaints at Zestasia. The corner of her lips curled into a smirk. [b]"[color=B22222]Unless you wanna start munching on tree bark, I don't think you'll be getting much as long as we're stuck here.[/color]"[/b]

The glee in her face soon faded as she stumbled over to Etoile's diagram, collapsing into a sitting position behind it. Clara's eyebrows furrowed with concern.

[b]"[color=B22222]And that's why if there's any way we can find the sneaky bastard behind all this, I suggest we do that,[/color]"[/b] Clara hissed through her splitting headache, [b]"[color=B22222]I'm sure it'll be faster than trying to find those foci things in a forest as big as this. If we find and stop this guy, we stop the incantation or whatever, right? And that'll get the barge moving again, won't it?[/color]"[/b]

As much as she didn't want the barge passengers to meet their demise, Clara just wanted to get out of the damned forest already. She wasn't on a barge headed straight to Thlecia just for some nostalgic day trip, she needed to get there at some point. If she couldn't make it to her location alive, then what was the point in coming all this way?

No matter what the cost, Clara had to make it back home.

[b]"[color=B22222]What if we set up a trap? Maybe we could lure them out somehow and attack from the shadows, something like that. But since this person's plan seems so… [i]elaborate[/i], it would take a lot more time to think of something that'll actually work against them. Time which we don't have.[/color]"[/b]