With the slow rise of the sun, the once dark woods  took on a golden hue. The warmth, however, was fleeting as that chilling wind picked up, reminding them just how upside down their world was. Twigs and dying leaves snapped, giving way beneath his heavy form as he traveled at a steady pace, traveling the speed that allowed Isabella’s smaller form to keep up, though perhaps not on purpose.<br/><br/>The cawing of a crow was heard in the distance, though nothing would be seen in the sky, no movement save for the treetops as a breeze crept through their clothing before passing by. The knight growled softly at the noise of the unseen bird, glaring as his attention shifts from one branch to another as if trying to find the source. “Perhaps.” He’d mutter under his breath at the mention of wild carrots, something that had already left his rapidly shifting mind and now focused on birds, or one bird in particular.<br/><br/>It would be nearly a half hour of their travels before once more the cawing of a single crow would cut through the rather silent forest, holding the same pitch, the same distance from them as prior, with no real sense of where it had come from. Aluren growled at this, quickly drawing his sword with his left hand, yet keeping it down near his side. “Where are you, beast?!” He snarled through clenched teeth, his   eyes once more growing wild as they did only hours prior.