Kosuke couldn't be sure, but it felt like about a quarter mile walk from where he had been before he saw the fork in the road. He'd already been to the village on the left, so now he chose the the right path.<br/><br/>Perhaps it was nature's way of compensating for the friend he'd parted with, but the weather was far more merciful than the past couple of days. There were several lazy clouds in the sky that would occasionally block the sun, and the temperature had dropped to something reasonable. Along the path he was currently taking, the grassland began to give out to mountainous forest land. Soon he could feel the previously level path begin to take a climb.<br/><br/>It seemed like this path was going to go partially over the mountain, instead of around it. Kosuke wondered if perhaps there was a village on the mountain, or maybe not for quite a ways past it. Either way, it seemed he'd be walking for quite a long time. But traveling to new places was always so unpredictable.