Magical forest (3)

Following exactly the order, she felt the trees around here and shut her eyes. Feeling the sound of the tree and moving according to it. Her sixth sense was awakened as she heard the trees fluttering their leaves following the direction of the wind. She felt like the tree was communicating with her, opting for her to walk with their sound.

It was a unique experience she'd never experienced before and she ain't complaining. From the start, everything was too much for her. From she was smaller until now, she pushed down any uncomfortable feeling deep down her heart. Topple it with other relevant problems at hand.

It wasn't her fault to be exceptional. It wasn't her problem she wasn't included in the bewitched agenda by the siren. She was immune and she welcomed it. Being controlled by others was not her flavor at all. She'd rather she has an upper hand than being oppressed by the other being. Especially the being inside the novel.

The searching for the intended flower was not hard and has zero obstacles. It pricks her ego a little, she prepared all the trouble only it was nothing. Nothing at all. The mountain was nearer than she'd thought. A few minutes walk from their place and she wondered why the siren didn't move himself to get it. Feels like he was playing with her again and her face tightened.

Once she entered the mountain area, she saw a bunch of colorful flowers with colorful leaves. Elizebeth feels her stomach jump, wonders. She's surprised and a little disturbed that there's no danger but only welcoming flowers. The trees whispered to her to pick yellow-ish and green leaves at the corner of the mountain.

She picked the most intoxicant scent right away following the advice from the trees. Even if that could be attributed to the overpowering muskiness of other scents. Honestly, though, this sort of thing was not as much of a shock to her system as the sudden appearance of a siren.

She crouched down on the floor when the rustle of the leaves around her asked her to do so as she stared at the yellow-ish and purple leaves below her, everywhere on the mountain ground. She was spell-bound and transfixed in how normal it looks compared to other flowers. Her eyes were fixed on that particular flower. It was too normal to be a magical flower or any healing herb.

But she couldn't say there's all that there was. She knew the flower was here because of their strong divine power.

"How to pick the flower?" She said to herself and the trees answering her by showing the unharmed yellow leaves just beside it. "It's not a normal flower after all. Humans can't pick them barehanded. Compulsive."

She did her job at high speed, picked more than a few as being suggested by the trees, and returned. She hummed calmly as she walked the same path she came from. In her hand, the several yellow-ish flowers with purple leaves and one red rose tugged on her ears. The wind suggested it.

"You are late!" Logan raised his voice as soon as he saw her silhouette.

The harsh and worried voice erupted, resonating the otherwise calm forest. Scolding her out of nowhere, getting mad at her without her permission as if they were best friends that could not be separated even in seconds.

She frowned. She wasn't exactly a fan of getting scolded. Not when the new friend baring his teeth at her and being jagoff, it made her stomach jump a little. She felt awful about it. Right now, it's making an anger claw from her skin. The fierce aura permeated the magical forest, the trees fluttering harshly responding to it. Yet she wasn't aware of her own changes.

"Shit, Meredith I-" Logan gasped, putting his hands in the air. He was terrified with the sudden change of the environment and he knew damn well the cause was the girl with a tight face that was walking towards him.

"Your flower." She said curtly. The courtesy smile painted her face as she put down the flowers on the ground near him before she took a few steps backward.

"Meredith, I'm so sorry. I don't mean to lash out at you, it's just that-"

"It's fine. Forget it, it's fine." Well, it's not fine, she hated being scolded so suddenly without being aware of her own fault. It made Elizebeth feel annoyed. They're just met. What's right Logan had to lash out at her?

Logan hastily got out from the water and tried to rise from his seat as the injured fin changed into an injured leg. His leg state looked terrible. He was more badly injured than she thought. With the kind of injury, it's no wonder he couldn't move past water. The hot pepper skin circling his tight, and the red flesh of the pierced skin looked terrible enough for her to see.

"It's fine. You are worried. I get it." She dismissed him as she ran towards Logan and squatted down to examine the leg. "How do you get the injury? T'is bad enough. No. How can you survive?"

Logan rubbed the back of his neck, nervous with the sudden attention. "I fought with a manfish." He told the truth.

"Manfish?" She tilted her head and blinked.

Manfish was a term for the human-like appearance of a water citizen. They had legs and body like humans but their body was blue and the face looked like a fish or that's what was described in the book. Their ears were like gills and their eyes were usually red and yellow. It was weird for her to read and now she almost met one.

If the siren looks exactly like a mermaid; their upper body was exactly like a human, their lower body consisted of a fin. The sharp teeth tell them apart from each other, however. On land, the fin changed into human legs. Whilst manfish couldn't change their appearance even on land. Their bodies remain the same off and under the water.

And the author also puts the siren and mermaid against the manfish. In the book, the manfish was the evil force. For what? Maybe for their own amusement. She didn't know and didn't care.

She USED to don't care. But now she HAD to care. She's living inside the novel. It's no way she knew what happened exactly. She was currently living far from the future. The event in the book only took over once she 19-year-old. There's no record of the five-year-old Elizebeth inside the novel. Also meant, the action by her would be her own consequence.

"Sir Logan lives on an adventure." She put on a cute smile to mask her inner turmoil.

"Well, well yeah." Logan didn't know why he agreed to the remark but he had to. It was becoming awkward to feel the unfriendly aura of her and the chaotic trees around them. "I apologize if I ever offend you, My Lady." He apologized instantly.

"Offend me? What offend did you commit?" Rose.

Logan kept his mouth close, flustered. "Look, don't make it hard for me. My new friend is hard to please."

She shrugged. Dismissed Logan. Then she pointed at her own team. "Wake them up."

Logan turned to them and nodded. "Of course, though it's a shame."

She arched her brow. Asking wordlessly.

"They have one more hour."

She jolted. "Am I gone for more than three hours?"

Logan nodded vigorously. "I was so worried when you don't return when you are supposed to."

That's explained why he was so angry at her. The trees and the wind didn't even help her, or not… She distantly heard the sound of the wind whooshing at her ears and the vigorous trees fluttered around begging her to return.

"Magical forest was named such because of its value, Meredith. It lured people inside it. People who have no prior knowledge easily fell victim to it. It's my fault too. I should warn you." He said apologetically.

She shook her head. She should know better. She mastered this book several times yet she fell under the spell too. Tragic. "I need to go now. My parents are worried."

Logan snapped his fingers without thinking. "I apologize, My Lady. What should I do to redeem myself?"

"Why?" She looked between her knights and Emily that slowly blinked and an apologetic Logan.

He made a sorry face without offering any explanation.

Elizebeth then thinking. "If you want to redeem yourself…" She trailed off.

"Yes?" He perked like a cat while taking the flowers on the ground and walked towards the water.

The smile deepened. Her lips stretched beautifully on her face. It was supposed to be a mischievous smile but Logan viewed it as the most radiant smile ever. The bright and dark aura didn't help much. She was like an angel in his eyes.

She turned to smile at Logan. "You can help me."

He blinked in confusion. It's bad for his heart, the smile was. It was so fatal. It's radiate mischievous and also pure at the same time. He knew she was up to something evil. "Okay." Yet he could not help himself.

"Perfect." She was the one controlling this situation and she was happy.