Tyranny of cold

***Two hours earlier***

"This blessing will only last two and a half, maybe three hours," Leinei advised as she removed her hand from my shoulder. "As it starts to run out, you need to drop everything and run. For about five to ten minutes it will stop any tracking on you, but then…"

Leinei shook her head before moving on to the next person in line, casting her blessing of disguise while repeating the very same advice. 

Soon, all twelve of us completed this one, final step, before moving towards the last line of the trees that marked the end of the forest and opened up to the plain. 

Thanks to the magic storm, the grassland has now turned into a marsh, a swamp that started as close as just a few meters away from the forest, where the roots of the trees no longer reached. 

And this mud… was exactly what would become my best friend for quite some time from now on.