"I'll be fine, but I appreciate the concern you show. This will not be my first trip through the wilderness, even if it has been some time. Let us delay no further then."<br/><br/>Aiven's confidence was mostly unfeigned. The haunts never entirely let up, but they did grow bored easily, and the journey out to reach the others had provided ample opportunity to drop sticks and nuts on his head or trip him up with snarling roots, in addition to the joy they had gotten out of repeatedly scattering his belongings across his room while he packed. The rest of the day would be smoother, at least in body.