There was no doubt in his mind that the widening path now belonged to Tara – either that, or another was carefully manipulating their own magic when it appeared the mortal girl was focusing upon her own. Still, thinking such things was a quick path to paranoia, and while it always paid to think outside the box a little and have more than one option, to over think a situation – especially where magic was involved – was usually to over looking the simplest and usually the correct answer.<br/><br/>He couldn’t help but smile just a slight amount as he watched her close her eyes – no doubt repeating some phrase in her head in order to ‘focus’ herself upon the magic. It was a slightly clumsy method, but it certainly seemed to work – and he could see the amazement in her eyes as she saw the path beside them widen visibly, as if someone had begun to pull at the edges and had stretched the path wide, pushing the trees gently out of the way.<br/><br/>‘Yes, I think you did… And if a path has opened to you, then I would think it wise that we follow it – such things usually reveal themselves for a reason, and it would be foolhardy to ignore it.’ For a moment his gaze shifted down to the hand holding onto his arm – a look of some amusement on his face, much more than she would have no doubt thought she would see upon a ‘cold hearted elf’ as his kind were often called.<br/><br/>Making no attempt to remove her hand from his arm, he moved across through the light vegetation and thin trees that separated the two paths, the one that they were previously following seeming to be swallowed up readily by the forest as soon as they had left it.