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The forest is dark (Clarity and Guiding Star light their horns to see by, but it's almost worse than nothing, making the distant shadowed spaces darker by comparison; they soon give up). The plants that make it up are closely spaced, not all of them have friendly textures, and it is full of scary noises, only some of them the harmless snapped twigs and disturbed leaves of their own passage.
Before they've fully adjusted to the darkness, and are aware via anything but the feel of earth under their hooves that the path has sloped downward a little, it has given way under them, some of the flora and some distressingly large rocks along with it. Clarity can't even teleport. It's too dark to see where she might be going.
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"How fortunate that the fact that it's laughter is -" She trips trying to escape an encroaching treemonster. "Ridiculous." And then she snorts with small but unmistakeable laughter.
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Their laughter untwists the two closest trees. Joy pounces on another one and gives it a hug, giggling helplessly. Its curse is lifted.
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Which sends her sister into uproarious wheezing giggles. Another two trees restored.
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Guiding decides to take a chance on fwipping a tree in the "nose" with her tail, chuckling when it "sneezes". It reverts.
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And Joy runs up to the remaining demon tree and tickles it, cackling when it flails its branches.
"Awwww, all gone," he gasps between giggles.
"Awwww, all gone," he gasps between giggles.
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"Who knew Joy's weird sense of humour could be so useful?" remarks Cordy. She's smiling, but has not actually managed any tree-dispelling laughter. "Everybody okay? Are we ready to keep going?"
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"I think I'm fine," says Clarity, shaking some dirt off her hoof from when she fell. "What an odd sort of tree monster."
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"You're welcome," says Joy, (what else) cheerfully. "Let's go!" He sets out along the decent-approximation-of-a-path.
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The path widens as they go, but the trees close in, denser and lower; short of Joy climbing one, the fliers will have a hard time getting off the ground if they try.
After a while, Streak announces, "Agitated water ahead. A waterfall or a very unruly river." If the others listen closely, they might be able to hear the faint sounds that led her to this conclusion.
After a while, Streak announces, "Agitated water ahead. A waterfall or a very unruly river." If the others listen closely, they might be able to hear the faint sounds that led her to this conclusion.
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"...Okay, I can swim a little, but maybe not in fast running water."
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"I'm a strong swimmer, but I'd have to see the river to tell if I could cross it," says Cordy.
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The path turns slightly. Joy, with the best night vision in the group, squints into the distance.
"...Iii don't think you can cross it," he says.
"...Iii don't think you can cross it," he says.
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"Clarity, how much would we have to light up the place for you to do your teleporting?"
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"More than horn light. I could maybe see well enough if Joy started a fire, but I'd be really worried about controlling it, even with a river right there."
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"I don't think you're gonna be seeing the other side of this river no matter how much light you throw on it," says Joy.