<div style="text-align: center;"><a class="postlink" href="http://i312.photobucket.com/albums/ll353/JackieD0509/40f7ab7f-f775-4e63-b190-0f10ab305f7c_zps02659961.jpg">[ img ]</a></div><br/><br/>It was as if everything that she heard was coming alive. She had felt so comfortable around the man. His heart was in the right place, but the destination that it sought for was not within reach of this world as he was supposing. The supernatural tendencies...The ones that the castle had forbade anyone practicing, she was a little worried. The man wanted to return home, and finally find the place that his heart was content with. Her eyes had widened the moment that he had spoken the name. Practically jumping on the man to cover the mouth, she felt the forest go silent. Even the forest itself didn't like the name. Everything began to quiet down and there were different sounds of cruelty now happening. It was as if the name in itself was death. The death and the torture that came along with the consequences.<br/><br/>Fear began to trickle at her mind as she quickly pulled away, feeling blood fill her cheeks as she did so. Advising that it no longer felt safe, the man was quick to move with understanding. That was what she was grateful for. She nodded as she pulled herself up from the blanket.<span style="color: #00BFFF">"I'm afraid you saying the name has put the forest at an unease. The moment this forest becomes that way, the consequences are endless!"</span>She said, fear sparkling in her eyes as the man pulled on his coat and the woman looked around them. She could see the fog rolling in around the tops of the trees roots. It looked almost as if an acid smoke, killing things in it's way. She wasn't sure from the lack of light, but the moment that the color hit the light, she felt the urgency to get out. The man quickly pulled himself onto the horse, leaving room for herself. Gathering her skirts, she climbed up, with his help of course and settled on the horse's back with the man behind her. Placing her hands on the horse's neck, she looked around them.<span style="color: #00BFFF">"Head toward the castle please!"</span>She said, a little worry in her heart. Tonight she had asked for adventure, and adventure she received.<br/><br/>No wonder people said be careful what you wish for...<br/><br/>Cadelle braced herself as she waited for them to start moving. The fog was running close to the horse's pasterns. She bit her lip.<span style="color: #00BFFF">"We need to move now!"</span>She said with urgency. Knowing how to get a horse moving, she tapped her heels into the horse's sides to get them to start moving. The darkness seemed to have gotten darker from the time they started moving by the time that they had exited the forest. It was outside of the castle walls. The king wanted nothing to do with the forest. Blasphemy was the name any time someone even brought up the subject. Everything the king didn't understand, he wanted nothing to do with...At least that was what Cadelle thought. Little did she know that the king knew very much about the forest...As for the reasons why people should stay away from their too, but never was she ever close enough to listen to the stories he had to tell. Pulling her hair to the side, she wanted to keep herself from having the man hit with a face full of hair. Holding on to the horse's hair, she held herself up, hating the way that her legs were going to be bruised and battered by the time that they returned to the castle.<br/><br/>Once the castle was in view, she found herself feeling a little bit better. The green fog had stopped at the edge of the forest and now she wanted to come to a slow pace. Running away from their fears of the unknown, she was sure that she should be grateful that the man had come prepared with a horse to get away fast if he needed. She, again, was not prepared like she should have been. Glancing back at him.<span style="color: #00BFFF">"Thank you, Julian. I am grateful for your preparedness."</span>She said with a soft blush on her cheeks. She was scared, a little hot, and she was thankful that they were out of the Enchanted Forest alive and safe.<br/><br/>Looking back at the castle, she found that her heart slowed. She didn't want to go back. She didn't want to sit through another court. She wanted to travel, but she knew she'd have to find a way out of this place...her eyes faltered for a moment as her shoulders began to sink.<span style="color: #00BFFF">"Your destination...Misthaven can be found."</span>She said softly. Having read through the books, known all the maps, she had known it by heart, but never did she have the courage to actually travel through the forest to see what was out there.<span style="color: #00BFFF">"I can help you get there...but I must have the map, from the atlas that we have in the library. You are a kind gentleman and I want to help you get back to Ireland. But..."</span>She paused for a moment.<span style="color: #00BFFF">"I want to come with you."</span>She said, glancing back at him. The words had come out so fast that she barely understood what she was saying. Her heart wanted to leave so much that she felt as if she was going to do anything to get there...and that was to make a fool out of herself to do it.<br/><br/>Oh, how now she regretted it...