Eccelisa smiled kindly at the child's babbling. If anything, the trip was not going to be lonely. Cocking her head, she motioned to an overgrown path that would take them to the Forbidden Area. Without another word, she opened a single panel on the dark lamp and walked forward.<br/><br/><span style="font-style: italic">So, the child thought everything was dandy on the trail, did she? Too bad she has a surprise in store for her...</span>Eccelisa thought almost sadly. If Dasavi expected her to be her bodyguard, she was about to be proved wrong. After all, the journey was not for the weak willed, or the weak for that matter. She had been older than the girl on her first trip and she almost didn't make it, resulting in a ghastly scar that ran from the right side of her forehead to the left hand of her jaw. Luckily nothing else got cut besides skin. She had simply explained it was from an attack from a wild animal, and the twittering fools had accepted it without question. Silly, silly women...