CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
Morning took a long time, so it seems, coming to the two men.
They were both awake by the time the sun rose and by the rime that it was fully light, they had finished eating and made their way into the forest.
It was a perfectly clear day out by the river, but the odd clouds that towered over the forest were still there and they were maybe even thicker than the day before.
At any rate, the inside of the forest had a night look to it.
The trek through the forest was the part of the journey that the two men wanted most to do without. They were afraid of the forest because they knew very little about it.
The veil of mystery and the stories of horror and evil, surrounding the place, didn't make their nerves any calmer.
Not much time went by since they had entered the forest. All was quiet inside and they
began to feel easier until they came across a gigantic, ox-sized carcass of a rabbit that was being devoured by huge larvae as large as big rats.
They didn't know the nature of the larvae, whether or not they attacked their prey or just fed-off of dead animal bodies, so they both took their weapons and carried them as they continued.