Ling grumbled a bit and rubbed her eyes as she stepped through the gate. The short girl had never been much of a morning person. At the guard’s tirade about not insulting the Yi family again Ling just continued to walk away and lifted her hand. “Yeah, yeah, blah blah, I don’t give a crap about the Yi family.” Ling replied as she continued to walk. She could be polite and have good manners, they’d been drilled in her since a young age by her father but she just chose not to. She just didn’t like having to put on that polite, smiling, lying mask on her face.  When she head the guard recant and echo her own opinion on Yi she nodded her head in agreement. “Yes it would. We can only hope.”<br/><br/>As they made their deeper into the forest Ling looked around, a bit more relaxed now that they were out of town and didn’t have to worry about mobs or militia attacking them because of Yi’s say so. That ease was short lived however since as they moved further deeper into the forest and towards the mountain the earth began to feel wrong and she didn’t like it. It felt foreign, just slightly different than earth was supposed to feel. Almost like there was some kind of presence mixed in. She was no spiritshaper so she didn’t know much about the spirit world but she’d put money on this place being close to it. It just didn’t feel right and it gave her the willies.<br/><br/>She hated ghosts but she absolutely was not scared of them at all, not one bit. They were just things that she couldn’t hit them with boulders or trap them in the earth, or fight.  They didn’t even touch the earth. Nope, nothing at all to be scared of. She just took a step closer to Mai so they could cover each other better if something happened that was all. It wasn’t because she was afraid or anything. “Come on, Mai. Let’s hurry up. The sooner we finish the better for everybody.” And the sooner they would get out of this creepy place too.