"Now listen here! We are not going back the way we planned. Instead, we are going to move as a group. Professor Wright is clearing the trail ahead of us. We will board the Cloud Whale and head home. Stay close and do not separate from the group. If you do, you will be left here." Professor Brune did not hold back. The moment the camp had been cleaned up he was dropping this on everyone.
"Did we cause this…?" Maria felt that they had been the ones to set this in motion. She could understand that the loss of any students was a possibility. But the loss of multiple and the goblins acting up was an issue.
"It can't be. If we were the ones then they would have punished us already." Ralph scoffed at the fact that Maria believed they would be the cause of everything.