The route was much shorter; it was still miles, but took about an hour to make the trip, as the paths were wider, and less hostile, and the forest wasn't utterly impassable. They'd arrive at the next, new region just before twilight, with their increased speed.<br/><br/>A thirty-foot-high brick wall encircles a large clearing in the woods—within, the riot of growth continues, but as a tangle of mushrooms and fungus rather than actual leafy plants. Bulbs of brightly colored fruits the size of a man’s head hang from or grow on the trunks of many of the mushrooms— many of these bulbs twitch and pulse as if something within were attempting to escape.