[center][img]https://fontmeme.com/permalink/181012/ad7d1ac9cb16e5ae0b355f0d3152a846.png[/img][hr][color=gray][b]Unnamed Forest - ???[/b][/color][hr][/center]Hiroko buried herself deeper in her coat, expecting more thunder to come when it didn't. It even seemed like the storm disappeared just like that. Still, she figured that they should be careful and still seek shelter just in case it does pour. She doubted it would be safe to proceed through a mountain when it's raining and the ground is unstable. One slip would be all it takes for them to meet an untimely demise. Maybe she was being a little pessimistic about their survival chances the longer they stay in the forest, but then again there's nothing wrong with being wary.

The statues were interesting, to say the least, and inscriptions were written on them. At first, she couldn't even understand what was written and she brought her hand up to rub her eyes a bit. Suddenly, it did make sense. Was she hit in the head and made her have trouble reading something? Or was there something wrong with her eyesight? Or did she actually just manage to understand a completely new language in less than a minute? But that was impossible... wasn't it? 

This forest might actually be turning her crazy from overthinking.

[color=f26522]"Statues like these must mean they're essentially protecting an area, right? So there's probably something for us ahead, at the very least."[/color] Thinking that there would be people there would be too optimistic though. These statues didn't look like they've been touched, let alone cleaned in a long time. She looked down the path, darkness clouding anything beyond what their flashlights could reach. The idea of continuing down a path they were unsure of made her queasy but it didn't look like they had much of a choice.